Porn in USA is nudity in Europe (video)

What's up with Americans and nudity? | Feli from Germany

(Feli from Germany) June 4, 2023. CINCINNATI Compare news coverage from around the world and across the political spectrum with Ground News: ground.news/feli

▸"Florida principal forced to resign after showing students Michelangelo's 'David' [penis] statue" or "Parents complain about 'pornographic' David statue" 👈 These types of headlines went around the world a couple months ago and left many [European] people in [post-Renaissance] Italy and other [Eurozone] countries utterly confused.

What's wrong with the [full frontal naked] David statue [with his penis showing]? How could anyone ever think this was porn? So let's talk about how nudity is handled in everyday situations in the USA compared to Germany and why it seems to be such a taboo topic in the States.

Let's nerd out on German (U.S. Pennsylvania Dutch," which is Deutsch)

• 0:00 Recent headlines about the David statue
• 1:40 What exactly happened in Florida?
• 6:13 Reactions in Italy & other countries
• 8:20 Nudity Germany vs. USA: #1 Sauna
• 9:22 #2 Nudism/FKK
• 11:57 #3 Communal showers
• 13:45 #4 Doctor's office
• 14:50 #5 Breastfeeding
• 17:08 #6 Media
• 19:41 Nudity = cultural difference
• 20:06 Possible explanations
• 24:25 Sex in American pop culture

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Occupy LA's "Bikini Drill Squad" (video)

Lucky and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (REPORTING); Occupy LA; Femen.org

FEMEN is a provocative protest group, founded in 2008, internationally-known for topless protests against sexism, sex tourism, student issues, modern erotic art, and other topics.

Last night's Occupy LA General Assembly [12/21/11] was one of the best attended. This was thanks to "Occupy the Light" at Pershing Square, which ended in a candlelight walk through downtown to the west steps of City Hall. (The sole proposal, which passed, was officially backing today's California Nurses' Union strike; the main topic of discussion was a nationwide strike on May 1st). Server Lauren, supported by Australian Sophia, pitched a daring idea: Let's strip down to bikinis, use choreographed routines, sing protest songs, and flaunt it along the police line at peaceful protests. This is the birth of the Bikini Drill Squad. Wisdom Quarterly talked to a pair of its leaders.

PHOTOS: Nude protests by FEMEN activists

• Lauren, do you really think this a good idea?
• It's still in the planning stages.
• We could wear blue bras like they do in Egypt and Belarus.*
• Where?
• Or we could go topless like they did in New York, in the early days of #OWS or the way PETA strips [to protest fur].
• They already did it?

Bearing a resemblance to Occupy LA's Lauren and Sophia, Inna Shevchenko (left) and Oksana Shachko are activists in the Women's Movement "FEMEN" in Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 21, 2011. The Ukrainian organization of topless women activists says three of its members were abducted by security officers during a protest against Belarus' authoritarian president, beaten, humiliated, and left naked in a forest (AP/Sergei Chuzavkov). See story below.

• How much have you thought this through?
• It's still in the planning stages.
• Sophia, what is the plan?
• Dancing, demonstrating, and singing protest songs on the front line during actions.
• For the police?
• For everybody.
• Given the way police mix sex and violence, using it as a tactic of repression (groping, fondling, searching, violating, forcing detainees to strip and shimmy, raping), is that really a good idea?
  
• Lots of the women here might be really uptight about us wearing bikinis.
• We could play volleyball. Or we could all wear blue bras in protest.
• Yeah, I saw that. But our boots and bikinis would be made out of American flags.
• And that way they wouldn't dare rip them?
• It's still...
• --in the planning stages. That part will probably need a little more planning.
• Americans are WAY too uptight about sex.
• Violence every day of the week, but you can't even mention "breasts" or "sex." Until you go out of the country, like to England, you don't realize how Puritanical we are. But it becomes obvious that we are that way. They have Page 3 Girls...
• We have...
• Hypocrisy, denial. Not everyone, but everyone here is affected by Judeo-Christian mores. Our minds have been colonized. It comes with high morals.
• Free your minds!
• And your bikini will follow? Is it like this in Australia?
• We need to do something to get attention. Australia is the opposite. There no one cares if you sunbathe topless, but here it's impossible -- even at camp.
  
• Yeah, where's the "free love" in this movement? You hear about it: "Make love not war."
• Oh, some of it was definitely going on.
• But nowhere near the levels they said. And it should have been. We're so uptight.
• I don't think these women will want to participate.
• You think they'll even let it be an officially-sanctioned OLA committee?
• Affinity group. Lauren [who had just proposed the idea to the GA] is very passionate about this.

Meanwhile, Lauren had found five women to join the squad. And we recommended the squad perform like cheerleaders at GA. Do it for the occupiers not police. Use it to call attention to things, not taunt. The squad agreed. It's still in the planning stages. General Assemblies are now held every other day, same time, same place. Have a bikini, have a flag, want to make a difference?

*Topless protesters return after Belarus ordeal
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Three women with a Ukrainian topless-protest group have returned from Belarus, where they claim they were abducted and beaten.

The members of the group FEMEN, whose members bare their breasts to draw attention to various political and social issues, accuse Belarusian security officers of seizing them in retaliation for a protest Monday against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Activist Oksana Shechko told The Associated Press in Kiev on Wednesday that she and the other two young women were kidnapped, made to undress in a freezing forest, threatened with death and rape, smeared with paint, and had their hair cut.

Belarusian authorities have denied involvement in the activists' alleged ordeal. Source

There's something very sexual about the way riotous police handle female demonstrators. Here a police officer uses pepper spray on an Occupy Portland protester at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, OR, Nov. 17, 2011 (AP/The Oregonian/Randy L. Rasmussen). Police clashes mar Occupy Wall Street protests

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PETA plans PORN site to Save Animals

PETA.org, Wisdom Quarterly, Huffington Post.com


Porn for Chicks, Foxes, and Puppies?
Editorial Staff, Wisdom Quarterly

We are prudes. We do not approve. We love animals and consider them worth saving and sparing from human torture for their flesh and pelts. Yet to excite the passions of a world aflame in lust is karma that harms activist and audience. Will we look? Probably. Will we protest? Yes. Will we pose nude? No. Will we applaud or censure those who do? No. Do we condone it? No. Is anyone asking us? Not as such. Does the intention justify the means? No.



We must agitate and enlighten people and call their attention to the plight of our fellow humans, earthlings, and all living beings. But to do so in a way that calls their attention in one way and brings them down in another, that is not the win-win possible here. Is this an effort from within to undermine PETA as an organization? Maybe.



It is not the first such campaign. There was a similar effort by another organization to save the forest by this exact means. The world will be great when it is sex-positive, full of integrity (non-hypocritical), violence-free, equal, and compassionate. Let's bring that moment into being. Make love, not war. Go topless. Be free. Be so considerate of others that their passions are not aroused to their ultimate detriment.

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Naked Yoga

Nick Sortal (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, May 24, 2009)

I am straight. I repeat that to myself as I walk into a dance studio, pull off my shirt, and drop my shorts and undies onto the wood floor. I'm surrounded by 17 other nude men — and mirrors. In a moment, we'll start practicing yoga.

For 20 years, I've taken yoga classes in sweaty gyms, incense-drenched studios and even in an office conference room. But always with my clothes on.

Tonight will be different for me, but not for most of the men in the room. Ray Whetstone has taught naked yoga for more than 10 years in South Florida. I learned about it by stumbling across his site, arcoirisyoga.com.

Arco iris is Spanish for rainbow; most of the men here are gay.

"The automatic assumption is that nudity is sex," he says. But not here. He notes that in all his years of teaching, every man's dog has remained downward.

I place my mat in a corner spot, so I'll have one neighbor instead of two. In the minutes before class starts, I stretch out in corpse pose, so I won't have to look. When we stand up to start the class, I tilt my gaze slightly upward, so if I see anything, it's faces and shoulders.

Then I fill my head with yoga-ese.

Yoga is all about letting go of external labels that get in your way, I remind myself. Going within. Testing your focus. More>>

• PHOTOS: Naked yoga poses