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SOUCRE: Daily Kos: Consumer nudism

Louis Abolafia [Heroes Of iNAKED]

Louis Abolafia (1941 (Manhattan) - November 1995) was an artist who ran for President of the United States under the Nudist Party on the Hippie 'Love Ticket' various times in the 1960s and onward. He ran against Richard Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie "love candidate" with the slogan: "What Have I Got To Hide?" Abolafia had previously run in 1968 under the Cosmic Love Party, even then with the slogan "What have I got to hide?"



The son of a New York City florist, Abolafia coined the phrase, "Make love, not war!" and was part of the Greenwich Village art scene in the 1960s. In this capacity, he organized "love-ins" and "happenings" that combined music, poetry and audience participation, inspiring the New York press to crown him “The Love King.” He became a sort of hippie poster-boy.

He died of a drug overdose in 1995.

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Louis Abolafia

Louis Abolafia - Wikipedia
The Talk of the Town: Abolafia for President : The New Yorker

Topless Ukrainians In Trouble For Insulting Tricolour [Topfreedom]

For the first time, members of Ukrainian protest group Femen face a criminal case, though not for stripping in public for women's cause.

Anonymous activists of the feminist group face a criminal case in a court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev for their topless protest on the balcony of Indian ambassador Rajiv K. Chander's residence on January 18, during which they tore down the Indian Tricolour.

The activists were protesting against India's alleged visa crackdown against women from some former Soviet states.

The government has reportedly asked the country's diplomatic missions in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to tighten the overview of visa applications by women aged 18- 40 in an attempt to curb the inflow of sex workers to India.

About 40,000 tourists from the Central Asia republics and more than 70,000 from Russia visit India every year. A large number of women from some of the Central Asian republics travel to India to work as prostitutes.

The Femen protesters, baring their breasts even in sub-zero temperatures, climbed the balcony of the ambassador's residence with placards bearing slogans such as 'Ukraine is not a bordello', 'We are not prostitutes', 'Delhi, close your brothels' and 'We demand apologies'.

A press release by Femen stated: "The problem of prostitution in India is not dependent on women from Ukraine, Russia or Kazakhstan. It is directly linked with criminal impunity for the pimping business within India itself." The protest has landed the activists in trouble as two cases were filed against them on charges of hooliganism and desecration of state symbols. The Ukrainian police said they may end up in prison for up to four years.

Femen was founded in Kiev in 2008 and has mostly women university students as its members.

The group is known for staging topless protests in Ukraine and outside for all causes concerning women, from sex tourism to Silvio Berlusconi's peccadilloes.

SOUCRE: www.indiatoday.in

nakedcity.MOV [Topfreedom, Video]

topless women in nyc is legal. i wasn't expecting this to be delaying the train i was on. glad i wasn't on my way to work because it wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. i had no idea it was legal for women to walk around topless in NYC!

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Naked Rambler Nigel Keer Fined £315 For Offending Other Walkers [News]

This article was taken from metro.co.uk:



Nigel Keer was wearing nothing but a backpack, boots and a baseball cap when he met a woman walking her dog on October 2 last year.

Off-duty police officer PC Mark Buxton, who was out running, arrested Mr Keer after spotting the woman who looked distressed.

PC Buxton told Leeds Magistrates' Court: 'She had a disgusted frown across her face.

'I saw her turning around, I could tell she was upset about something.'

The officer approached the naked rambler and ordered him to get dressed, which he did.

PC Buxton added: 'I was so shocked and surprised - and to some degree alarmed - by what I had just seen.'



Mr Kerr claimed the woman referred to by the police officer didn't exist and said he'd kept score of the number of positive and negative reactions he'd received during his stroll that day, with a score of 15-0 in his favour.

However, despite his protests, he was found guilty of a public order offence.

Judge Christopher Darnton said: 'I do accept that Mr Keer is a naturist but I note with some interest that he would not walk with his clothes off in the city centre of Leeds.

'On this occasion a lady was clearly distressed by what she had seen going on.'

SOURCE: metro.co.uk

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Media Censorship [Politics & Campaigning]

If any of the organisations listed here would like to send us links to objective evidence justifying their policy on nudity then we will be delighted to add them. NB evidence that some people are prejudiced does not provide justification. It doesn't matter how deeply held a prejudice may be, or how popular it may appear to be, it is still nothing but a prejudice.

READ MORE @ THE BRITISH NATURISM WEBSITE

UK Government Censorship [Politics & Campaigning]

Government, national, local and the various organisations that they are responsible for are major censors.

If any of the organisations listed here would like to send us links to objective evidence justifying their policy on nudity then we will be delighted to add them. NB evidence that some people are prejudiced does not provide justification. It doesn't matter how deeply held a prejudice may be, or how popular it may appear to be, it is still nothing but a prejudice.

READ MORE @ THE BRITISH NATURISM WEBSITE

Big Business Censorship [Politics & Campaigning]

Big business is almost entirely unaccountable. Some of the worst offenders are US corporations exporting harmful attitudes from the USA to the rest of the world. We suspect that some of them are driven by religious prejudices largely alien to Europe.

If any of the organisations listed here would like to send us links to objective evidence justifying their policy on nudity then we will be delighted to add them. NB evidence that some people are prejudiced does not provide justification. It doesn't matter how deeply held a prejudice may be, or how popular it may appear to be, it is still nothing but a prejudice.

READ MORE @ THE BRITISH NATURISM WEBSITE

Comparison Of Censors [Politics & Campaigning]

It is instructive to compare censors and how the attitudes of censors have changed.

If any of the organisations listed here would like to send us links to objective evidence justifying their policy on nudity then we will be delighted to add them. NB evidence that some people are prejudiced does not provide justification. It doesn't matter how deeply held a prejudice may be, or how popular it may appear to be, it is still nothing but a prejudice.

The No Anorexia campaign posters were reported with varying degrees of accuracy and responsibility. The evidence indicates that censoring the body increases the problem of body image disorders. In 2007 the BBC showed most of the poster. In 2010 they followed their usual policy of only showing the top.

Isabella Caro, the subject of these photographs, said "To see my tailbone like an open wound, I show myself as I am. I'm not beautiful, my hair is ruined and I know I will never have long hair again. I've lost several teeth," she said of her looks on the billboard. "My skin is dry. My breasts have fallen. No young girl wants to look like a skeleton." She died not long after.

How can the readers of either BBC article "see [her] tailbone like an open wound". Yet clearly these were what she wanted the world to see to make her point.

BBC Reporting

BBC 2011

BBC 2007

We were sure that the BBC was becoming more prudish and this reporting supports that. Quite why the Jonathan Ross incident, completely unacceptable as it was, should require an almighty lurch towards prudery has never been explained.

Other broadcasters were not so afraid to let Isabella make her point as forcibly as possible.

MTV Reporting

The Prudification Of Society - An Enormous Threat To Liberty [Politics & Campaigning]

Nudity everywhere, beaches, clubs, TV, film, magazines, absolutely everywhere is under a serious and new threat.

Body-knowledge, body-honesty and body-acceptance, anything to do with the human body is under attack like never before, Mary Whitehouse included. The government, or more accurately an influential part of the government, are pursuing the "prudification of society" like no government that I can remember and they are being a lot more subtle about it than Mary Whitehouse. Much of the activity is behind closed doors and the little that is visible has been spun to make it look like protection for children.

Typically their tactics work like this:

• I don't like it (don't usually say that) so
• it must be bad for children.
• Children must be protected
• Ban it!
• How dare you object!!!!
• You pervert (by implication)

Notice that there are no facts or evidence involved. They state their prejudices as if they are facts and appeal to emotion. They press the protection of children button. To make it more plausible they commission a report or two from "independent experts". Independent experts that they have chosen.

Society does not stand still. It changes, and the campaign to prudify society is having alarming success. The prudification will do immense harm, mainly to children and young people, but facts, evidence and logic have never counted for much with the prejudiced. Naturism is feeling the effects:

• Increased prosecutions for Naturism
• Increased problems with Social Services
• Increased problems hiring facilities
• Loss of some of the very few local authority nude health spa facilities

The consequences for beaches and other public places

• More difficult to get new beaches designated
• More likely to lose designated beaches
• More dangerous to use traditional beaches
• More dangerous to use any beach

The consequences for clubs

• More difficult to attract families,
• More difficult to attract people working in education, child care or the health service, or any other job 
• requiring a CRB check and that is a lot. (eg that includes taxi driver and meter reader),
• More difficult to attract anyone,
• Club Web sites will be classified as pornography and to look at them everyone, household by household, will have sign up for pornography.

SOURCE: British Naturism

UK Media Prurience Encourages Censorship [Politics & Campaigning]

Mountains out of molehills

Mirror - Quaker Oats advert
Windy's eccentric Uncle Gruber, a naturist, comes to stay. ... modesty protected by strategically placed breakfast items ... But in one scene ... viewers catch a glimpse of what appears to be Uncle Gruber's Plasticine genitals. The appararent slip has been leapt on by the UK media, with the Daily Mirror saying that "TV viewers nearly choked on their breakfasts", although it is understood that Quaker has not received any complaints.
From an article in Brand Republic, 2 Nov 2006.

Note how "Quaker had no complaints" equates to "TV viewers nearly choked on their breakfasts" in Mirror speak. No doubt there was a similarly apocalyptic headline.

SOURCE: British Naturism

London Nude Tech Calendar: Unclothed Geeks (And Ladygeeks) In A Good Cause [Blast From The Past]

This article is from the guardian.co.uk Technology Blog, 18 November 2009

Christmas is approaching, and with it the burning need to buy a calendar for next year. But rather than getting dubious calendars entitled "Cheryl Cole's 12 X Factor judging expressions" or "Ashley Cole's 12 Leaving A Nightclub Expressions" from the bloke down at the market, why not support a real charity and show off your geek credentials by buying a London Nude Tech Calendar?

The purpose is to raise funds for Take Heart India, a charity focused on IT education projects for blind and disabled students in India.



You can buy the calendar from Firebox: it costs £10, and is launched on 1 December (so you're getting a head start). There are no administration fees because the production costs were covered by the sponsors. It costs Take Heart just £37 to provide a six-month computer training course which secures a job for life for one of the students, so your money will make a difference.

The calendar is the brainchild of the "technology writer, party planner and all round top banana, Milo Yiannopoulos" (we think he wrote the press release). Obviously, it's inspired by tropes such as Calendar Girls, but that had charity as its aim. And you get pictures for your wall. Plus if you ever happen to meet any of them you can say "oh, you look different with your clothes on". Breaks the ice...

There's a gallery of some of the images, plus this video of how it got put together. You're going to need a bigger bat... aren't you?

SOUCRE: guardian.co.uk

The Politics Of Porn And Pubes: From The Public To The Personal [Women]

This article is from The F-Word by Joanna Whitehead:

Around six years ago, I had unfortunate sex with an unfortunate fellow. It was unexpected and we ended up fumbling around in his bedroom. When we paused for him to put on a condom (one saving grace), he looked between my legs, looked back at me and tugged my pubic hair, pronouncing, “This has got to go…” I was young - and absolutely mortified. Rather than turfing him out of his own room and branding his behind with “this boy is bad for women’s self esteem”, I squirmed and giggled nervously, before getting back down to business. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t much fun after that, and I sure as hell didn’t feel very sexy.

Last Thursday, I went to a talk at the Women’s Library in London entitled 'The Politics of Appearance'. As is often the case at such events, the audience question and answer session at the end proved to be the most telling and thought-provoking discussion of the evening. One woman put up her hand to say that she had a 20-year-old daughter who refused to go for a cervical smear unless she’d had a Brazilian. A smear test is a standard medical procedure, not Girls Gone Wild. Why should the poor woman feel such shame? Why was it so important for her to be trimmed and “tidy”? And, why was I embarrassed, rather than incensed?

For the uninitiated, a “Brazilian” is when all your pubic hair is removed except a neat “landing strip” of hair on your pubic bone. They have become de rigour amongst many women, some of whom apparently consider anything resembling natural pubic hair as “grim” or “gross”. Why is this?

One response to this question argues that the increased availability and (some could argue) prolificacy of pornography in society has seeped through from the public to the personal domain. Virtually all females in pornography are shaved and plucked within an inch of their life, and many people view this online and then request it or expect it from their real-life sexual partners.

Read The Whole Article @  The F-Word

Shocking Body-Image News: 97% Of Women Will Be Cruel To Their Bodies Today [Body Image]

This article is from glamour.com:

Scary but true: In an exclusive Glamour survey, young women recorded an average of 13 brutal thoughts about their bodies each day. We say: Enough!

Read these words: “You are a fat, worthless pig.” “You’re too thin. No man is ever going to want you.” “Ugly. Big. Gross.” Horrifying comments on some awful website? The rant of an abusive, controlling boyfriend? No; shockingly, these are the actual words young women are saying to themselves on any typical day. For some, such thoughts are fleeting, but for others, this dialogue plays on a constant, punishing loop, according to a new exclusive Glamour survey of more than 300 women of all sizes. Our research found that, on average, women have 13 negative body thoughts daily—nearly one for every waking hour. And a disturbing number of women confess to having 35, 50 or even 100 hateful thoughts about their own shapes each day.

Read The Whole Article @ glamour.com

On Reserve [Naturism]

This article is from Nude Scribe:

There are certain body parts that the twin social strictures of religion and politics most want to cover—or, more accurately, to bind. These parts are put on reserve, so to speak: under wraps. According to the rules of repression, they can’t be checked out, or unwrapped, except by special, sweaty-palmed permission. What are these parts? They are the female breasts, and the genitals and buttocks of both sexes. (Sometimes the list expands to include the belly of either sex and the long hair of women as something that social forces desire to cover.) These organs fulfill important sexual roles, but their roles are not by any means exclusive to sex. Let’s have a look at these items on reserve and mention three rather obvious—yet rarely discussed—qualities that they share.

Read The Whole Article @ Nude Scribe

Skinbook Is Back!

This article is from Nudist Day:

Skinbook was a short lived nudist social site which exploded on the scene over two years ago, its popularity seeded by worldwide press coverage. Its young founder soon found it was more than he could handle and became disillusioned, abandoning both the web site and nudism. Recently, Dario Western, an Australian nudist-activist decided to take over where Skinbook left off, determined to make it work this time.

Read The Whole Article @ Nudist Day

The Naked Truth [Naturism]

This article was taken from The Northern Star:

EVER wish you could be as uninhibited and carefree as a naked child, totally free of inhibition and self-consciousness?

We all start out that way, but somewhere along the line we learn to cover up; we learn that our naked adult bodies are to be hidden under clothes, seen only by a chosen few.

But there are some adults - many adults, actually - who refuse to conform to the idea that our bodies are to be clothed at all times.

These people spend a great deal of time totally naked and totally at ease with it.

They're nudists. And they don't much care what you think of them.

The modern idea of nudism stems from Germany, with the establishment of the Association of Free Body Culture in 1949. The association considered themselves a sports organisation and were part of the German Olympic Federation.

These days, nudists are also called naturists. It was only recently that the Australian Nudist Federation changed its name to the Australian Naturist Federation. It sounds a bit more politically correct, but in nudist circles it seems to be considered a watered-down term.

Read The Whole Article @ The Northern Star

Stop Barefoot Discrimination [Barefoot]

An informative and educational video about the truth (with a focus towards US laws). Barefooters are being discriminated against.

Why Is Nudity So Attractive To Those That Have Experienced It?

This article is from Sunkissed - Australian Naturists:

I must say that I find that the more time I spend naked the more I want to.

As I am reinforcing my natural state, I guess that makes sense. It is good for the body and the mind so any wonder it is so attractive.

When the weather is inclement on the weekends I really miss the trip down to Cobblers beach where I can be naked and enjoy the outdoors without the concern that someone may see me and be offended.

Read The Whole Article @ Sunkissed - Australian Naturists