Nudity
Welcome to a stripped back I Call Bullshit, where we look at spin and scuttlebutt. Today, nudity. I admire other people who have the guts (or don’t, as the case may be) but am not that keen on it for myself. So you can all relax.
And it’s great that South Australia has a nudist beach – Maslin’s – that also happens to be a spectacular spot, and it’s excellent that after a five-year hiatus they’ve brought back the Nude Olympics, a change to jiggle your way to fun and infamy.
But what a crying shame that kids have to keep their clothes on to “deter pedophiles”.
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Caption competition! So here’s a man on a motorbike snapped near Bingara, NSW yesterday…
As you can see, the man on the motorbike isn’t wearing much. Where was he going? Why is he wearing nothing? And is that a bum bag around his waist? What kind of self-respecting semi-nude bikie wears a bum bag?
Please help. The world is just too confusing for us these days. Oh, and if anything else is puzzling you, please share that too.
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stephen says:
The Prime Minister has made a mistake in not standing her ground on the Palestinian vote. She should have voted ‘No’ to the inclusion of Palestine as Observer to the UN. We should have sided with the US on this, and been supporters of Israel against the supposed 150 countries… Read more »
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Economist says:
AdamC you are right those figures were crap. Read more »
In Europe, a Ukrainian feminist movement protests against prostitution and for women’s rights by getting their tits out, donning long blonde wigs, putting flowers in their hair and getting in lots of trouble.
Femen’s latest protest ended with the KGB arresting an Australian filmmaker, and three other women were reportedly forced to strip, doused in petrol, and abandoned in a forest.
While it has ended badly for the individuals, the movement itself has worldwide coverage of its uncovered members and its causes.
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Gangsta Girl says:
Lol Richie, how typical. Strength no doubt it a biological thing that men are stronger -at average But intellectual?? Bull and shiz I’d take you on any day… Read more »
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Mark says:
Pity they would not protest for population control. Groups such as PETA who promote things such as turn over a new leaf go vegetarian, the amount of natural enviroment that has to destroyed to make a bowl of salad, this does not include dams and weirs which destroy wetlands, all… Read more »
Public nudity is a funny old thing.
On one hand, letting it all hang out is the most natural thing in the world. Yet – like a small child who leaps suddenly from behind a door shouting “boo radley” – the sight of fully fledged human nudity can be arresting if unexpected.
New South Wales upper house candidate and gay activist Stuart Baanstra certainly disturbed the political equilibrium when he disrobed publically during his campaign for today’s state election.
Described variously as “a political nudist”, “a passionate nudist” and “a softly spoken former employee of Australia Post”, Baanstra used to be a member of the Greens and once went to court for refusing to fill out the Census.
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Stuart Baanstra says:
Yeah, yeah Mike. The “extra-ordinary freedom” is the New World Order. Cheers. Read more »
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Stuart Baanstra says:
Hi Stephy, nudity is sexual if we’re sexual. Hell, clothes are sexual. They just make a bigger deal of it by drawing attention to certain parts of the body. As for “twitching” at the opposite gender and men with hard-ons, in a nude world it might not be the opposite… Read more »
So Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal have stripped off for the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Surprised?
It’s becoming a trend in Hollywood to gain attention through everything but their actual profession -acting.
It doesn’t shock me though that these two got partially naked to promote their new film, Love & Other Drugs. Hathaway, 27, plays liberal artist Maggie Murdock in the movie, opposite Gyllenhaal’s commitment-phobic Viagra salesman Jamie Randall.
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Marissa says:
i think there might be a bit missing from this article. love and other drugs is a sexually charged film with copious amounts of nudity so, therefore even if a don’t really see the NEED for nude advertisements for it i CAN see the point. Why was Miranda Kerr naked?… Read more »
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acotrel says:
There is a power thing involved with nudity, when the dominant partner has clothes on and the submissive is nude! When nudity appears in the media, it is simply playing with your subconscious! I’d never oppose it on that basis, but I won’t be manipulated by stupid journos! I pity… Read more »
Why was the sommelier kicked out of the nudist colony? He was walking around with a semillon.
This genius gag from South Australia - naturally - may well be the best joke of all time. And it’s offered here not as an unusual non-sequitir but a scene-setter for this piece about nudity.
Or rather, the scourge of nudity. And in particular, the way it is still permitted by law in South Australia, in one of the last remaining vestiges of the counter-culture era when drugs such as LSD helped convince ugly, hairy people that they looked good in the buff.
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barleysinger says:
TO the author You know that fat old dudes and the public hair growing contestants? Well, most every nude beach has a local group of regulars who have been going there for decades, and who make certain that the people who go to that beach are OK people…that they are… Read more »
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barleysinger says:
David - you are uninformed, and seem to feel your ideas on a inescapable link between sex and nudity are the same for all people everywhere. They are not. ON mental health ideas, try reading before ranting. Nudists do not suffer from mental health or psychosexual issues at higher rates… Read more »
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