Nudity
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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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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maari says:
Yay ‘Simon’. Am of Finnish parents, sauna’d nude all my life then in adulthood went to Maslins over some years (not now due to distance). Have been various sizes over that time and don’t care what others think -if offended they may avert their gaze, but few have. As a… Read more »
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annon says:
A very backward article. There are a lot of clothes optional beaches around and there should be more of them to be honest. Many in this society have tried to sexualise nudists and naturists. This has next to nothing to do with naturism and nudism. Reading your article it seems… Read more »
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