18
Aug

Nude skiing: Where you can do it and why you'd want to

Article from the Australian, money quote from a fellow named Kevin Casper:

Anyone can take off clothes and climb on a surfboard in the summer sun, but it takes a particular type of thrill-seeker to take off their clothes and speed down a ski mountain in the crisp winter air. More than just a show of toughness, naked skiing can be a sexy, exciting, and invigorating twist on a great sport.

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26
Jul

Waiter who streaked alongside Olympic Torch relay denies indecency claiming his naked body inspired 'hilarity not distress' - Crime - UK - The Independent

nudiarist:

Sally Thomson, for the defence, said her client was making a political protest: “Indecent exposure is a charge for people who jump out of bushes and try to alarm women who are out walking on their own. It does not suit the circumstances of this incident.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/waiter-who-streaked-alongside-olympic-torch-relay-denies-indecency-claiming-his-naked-body-inspired-hilarity-not-distress-7976459.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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12
Jul

ESPN Body Issue 2012

The ESPN Body Issue is out, along with the complaints that female athletes are being exploited instead of being honored for their athletic prowess.

I’d see their point if this were, say, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which has as much to do with sports as American Idol has to do with baroque music. It really isn’t even much of an ad for swimwear. It’s not much more than an excuse to show fantastically beautiful women wearing very little so we can check them out.

In the case of the Body Issue, it is hard to see it as exploitative of women, at least not in particular. Of the 36 pictures on the web, 19 are men. Yep, most of the pictures are of male athletes. The quote from soccer player Carlos Bocanegra is not about his athletic career, it’s about how great his legs look.

If you are going to see it as objectification, at least it is equal opportunity.

But beyond that, the photographs are quite beautiful. One of the athletes pictured is paralympic rower Oksana Masters. She wears prosthetic legs, and is photographed both with and without them. Our traditional standards say not beautiful, but the tasteful nude photographs show a great deal of beauty.

So, I don’t get the complaints. If pictures of nude women are by definition exploitative, it doesn’t leave room for a lot of art from the last 5000 or so years.

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29
Jun
If you’ve ever been in the “wall,” you’d know that covering up isn’t out of modesty. nudityandme: It’s a beautiful thing to see a large group of friends comfortable with each other in the nude. It’s just a shame that they felt the need to cover themselves before posing for the picture.

If you’ve ever been in the “wall,” you’d know that covering up isn’t out of modesty.

nudityandme:


It’s a beautiful thing to see a large group of friends comfortable with each other in the nude. It’s just a shame that they felt the need to cover themselves before posing for the picture.

(Source: natitud, via pdn-nudismm)

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