Whats Americas deal with nudity??
Whats Americas deal with nudity??
#1re: Whats Americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:36pmI wonder that, too. I mean, it's a part of nature. Everyone has one or the other. Everyone's gonna see it. What's the problem?
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#2re: Whats Americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:40pm
The American culture is a tad too uptight about nudity, in my opinion. And part of the reason is that it is rare for nudity not to be infused with overt sexuality. And it becomes a taboo for a lot of people. In my perfect world, children would grow up comfortable with their bodies.
Unfortunately, the fact that a lot of nudity, at least in the US, is presented in a sleazy manner, primes people to react just as strongly to Janet Jackson's nipple as they do scenes of murder and mayhem.
In the late '90's, I chaperoned a children's choir on a concert tour of the Czech Republic and Austria. In one town, we walked past a large sign that was on an embankment next to a sidewalk. The sign pictured dozens of classical musicians' heads on naked little boy bodies. I lined a whole bunch of the choir kids up NEXT to the sign and snapped a picture. 'twas quite the photo, it was.....
Zola Q. LaPlaya
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#3re: Whats Americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:01pm
"Everyone's gonna see it. What's the problem?"
Uhhhh, hellllooooooo, not everyone's gonna see mine.
Only Nina, Eddie, Phantom2, iflit, Flowery Friend, Namo, robbiej, BroadwayBoobs, papalovesmambo, jrb_actor, ckeaton, SOMMS, Mamamia Sammy, Marc Shaiman, right said rick, mominator, bwyasinger, son of a gunn, Vish, Plum, Menken Fan, dollypop, newyorkuniq, Auggie, Undiscovered, BlueWizard, etoile, eponine79, PolisPol, Annie Get Your Rose, DAME, Sueleen Gay, Jailyard, joeyjoe, Borstal, midtowngym, CATSNY, Matt_G, popcultureboy, Bobby457, RobbO, zoran, South FL Mark, Mister Matt, broadwayguy2, HunterFosterIsMyGod and whoever else I forgot that's actually already seen it (which means basically the area bordered by W 19th & W 58th Streets and Broadway & 11th Avenue. And all of Soho, the alphabetland, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Astoria, most of Harlem, and Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange Counties. Oh yeah I forgot... and Albany.) NOT IN PRIORITY ORDER.
If that means I have a problem with nudity, so be it. And you can just go back to whatever little putrid hellhole you're from.
#4re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:13pm8th? i'm freaking 8th????? man you really don't like horses do you!
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Zola Q. LaPlaya
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#5re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:15pmIsn't Mrs. Mambo waiting for you upstairs, pops. Go do your duty.
#6re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:30pmi don't like to look at it as duty but rather as a privilege. now, nighty night.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Zola Q. LaPlaya
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#7re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:32pm
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. So sweet. I'm all gushy. How romantic.
(bleeeeechhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
#8re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:56pm
papa- you're complaining about being 8th (you're really 9th, but thats neither here nor there) but i'm 37th!!!
i'm still trying to figure out how i made the list at all. i'm (dis)honored. "you (dis)like me, you really (dis)like me."
PED
#9re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:15am
And, for some strange reason, I am right BEHIND papa--hmmmmmmm!
:)
#10re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:20am
im not even in that list!
-d.b.j-
#11re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:52amI feel like I was just nominated for a Tony Award and look at the company I'm in...thank you Zola..I'm honored.
#12re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 7:02am
I have pondered this very question myself. A hirsute mountain man like myself often finds clothing to be confining, uncomfortable and frequently blood-stained. After a vigorous lathering and scrubbing, I prefer to let my meat and potatoes dry as the Lord intended; in the fresh air.
Yes, I am a proponent of public nudity in all its forms. From the playful antics of the public groper to the child-like inquisitiveness of the restroom voyeur. Let us all be naked. As long as it commodifies and exploits the weakest among us. Thats what really counts.
#13re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 8:17am
It could be prehaps because of our Puritanical roots, but I don't know...
And Zola, I WASN"T even on your list either! Don't you know that I am the baby of the family, and HATE feeling left ,out! I am sad now and it is ALL your fault! I am going to go sulk now... 
Zola Q. LaPlaya
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#14re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 9:05am
Moms, I kinda feel it's a little incestuous, a little Mary Kay Letourneau, or just blatant West Virginia to be showing the maternal figure your thingies.
Big hug and a peck on the cheek for you this fine morning.
#15re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 9:58amZola mentioned that the list was not in priority order, so your placement is not as important as you think. Just remember, Zola, though Jarico was not on the list, if I see it, he will see it, too. I have seen his all summer. Wheeee!!!
#16re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 10:08am
This is getting hot! I'm glad I made the list though. *pants* hubba hubba.
P.S. If the word hubba ever comes out of my mouth again, feel free to shoot.
Zola Q. LaPlaya
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#17re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 10:12amMister Matt's summer of love. It's Woodstock all over again.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#19re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:43pm
Thanks Zola hon!! I just hate feeling left out. I think it is a childhood fear of always beeing left behind ... Mommmy!
I'm OK now....
#20re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:02pm
papalovesmambo, jrb_actor, ckeaton
A jrb_meat sandwich between two hot slices of GOP-bread.
I love nudity. All kinds of it... the human body is a wonderful thing.
#21re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/7/04 at 11:47pm
I dont care if it is part of nature. Theres lots of things that makes up nature. That doesn't give you a licence to do anything. I dont like nudity because of the religious implications, for one. The private areas of the body are sacred and meant for husband and wife. Not only that, but viewing the naked body for my sexual pleasure too much would warp my respect of woman. Ive seen it happen to many of my friends.
Why does bobo try?
#22re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:19am
My crazy cousin once said that she thought nude paintings and sculptures should be illegal.
Aren't fundamentalists fun?
#23re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:22amI wonder if they shower with their clothes on. Or blindfold themselves so they don't see their own genitalia when they put on their underwear.
#24re: whats americas deal with nudity??
Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:36amoh, excelent retort. Im stumped. Naked in the shower... blows a hole right in my theory...
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