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 27 Mar 2005 @ 03:11, by Tlingel
Tout au monde dit non,
La nudité dit oui.
——Victor Hugo
The church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertizing says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta!
——Eduardo Galeano, Windows on the Word
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Victor van Dijk asks "Why is it in one culture absolutely accepted to appear naked in public, and in another absolutely not? Why is the naked body hidden in one culture, and not in another?" |
Projet Nudité (Project Nudity) is a research on social and cultural concepts regarding nudity and shame.
 
Vêtue puis revêtue
à quoi rêvais-tu
dévêtue
——Jacques Prévert
 
Goya's La Maja Desnuda and La Maja Vestida. In 19th-century Europe, it was common to have two paintings of the same subject for the same place on the wall. Depending on which guests were visiting, one or the other was shown.
 | More on this topic, here, on this very thorough wiki about nudity on Wikipedia. |
Poem for Lena
0 dear Lena, your beauty is so vast
It is hard sometimes to describe it fast.
I thought the entire world I would impress
If only your portrait I could compress.
Alas! First when I tried to use VQ
I found that your cheeks belong to only you.
Your silky hair contains a thousand lines
Hard to match with sums of discrete cosines.
And for your lips, sensual and tactual
Thirteen Crays found not the proper fractal.
And while these setbacks are all quite severe
I might have fixed them with hacks here or there
But when wavelets took sparkle from your eyes
I said, "Skip this stuff. I'll just digitize."
——by an unknown author
Je suis née toute nue
Je vis comme je suis née
Je suis née toute petite
Si j'ai grandi trop vite
Jamais je n'ai changée
C'est l'amour qui m'a faite
L'amour qui m'a fait fête
L'amour qui m'a fait fée
——Wanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos (aka Lio)
 | SHOOT YOURSELF? This strange sounding piece of advice is ISM's credo:
Project ISM, I Shot Myself, is a public forum in which women from around the world present themselves as they would like to be seen, naked. For some contributors it's a cathartic release of a lifetime of inhibition. For others it's purely an artistic project. And for some it's just simply the opportunity to be "naughty" for a day. |
Bodypainting
  
The New Dimension of Shamelessness:
Walk Nude, and people won't need to undress you with their eyes.
Naked News
His disciples asked, "When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?"
Jesus answered, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments
and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then will you see the
son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid."
——The Gospel of Thomas
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Relevant Article: Morals and Freedom
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Category: Butterfly
8 comments
1 Jul 2007 @ 00:41 by Nidal @212.102.28.10 : Hi
28 Jul 2007 @ 12:55 by Sham More @123.252.159.134 : Nudity
Basically the human race was nude and to protect self from vagaries of the nature they started wearing clothes for protection. In due course of time when females became a form of wealth they were required to be hidden from the eyes of the others, actually I support nudity as openness personified.
31 Jul 2007 @ 22:54 by Emma @12.154.14.91 : gross u should shave ur hair down there.
That is so gross that you would actually do that in public. i mean if i were to do that i'd atleas shave all of my hair down there off. You forners r so gross. I HATE THAT U DISPOSE UR BODIES LIKE THAT, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE KINDDA FUN, BUT NO THATS JUST SICK. YOUR SO GROSS AND SICK AND I HOPE THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR PICTURES ARE ON THE INTERNET. WELL IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT THEN GO AHEAD. BYE YOU SICK-O FREAKS (AKA FUCKERS).
31 Jul 2007 @ 22:54 by Emma @12.154.14.91 : gross u should shave ur hair down there.
That is so gross that you would actually do that in public. i mean if i were to do that i'd atleas shave all of my hair down there off. You forners r so gross. I HATE THAT U DISPOSE UR BODIES LIKE THAT, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE KINDDA FUN, BUT NO THATS JUST SICK. YOUR SO GROSS AND SICK AND I HOPE THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR PICTURES ARE ON THE INTERNET. WELL IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT THEN GO AHEAD. BYE YOU SICK-O FREAKS (AKA FUCKERS).
31 Jul 2007 @ 23:00 by Isabel @12.154.14.91 : ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.........
YOUR SO SICK AND I HOPE I NEVER EVER DO THAT, ONLY AT HOME WHEN YOUR GONNA DO IT. THAT IS SICK THAT YOU GO OUT INTO PUBLIC AND BE NUDE I ONLY GET NUDE FOR MY HUSBAND, AND THATS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. WELL YOU BITCHES GOAHEAD AND DO THAT, BECAUSE I WONT. CYA, AND WHILE YOUR AT IT YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST BECOME A STRIPPER,BECAUSE YOUR GETTING NAKED FOR THE WORLD, WHY NOT DO IT FOR MONEY TOO? WELL CYA BITCHES.
7 Aug 2007 @ 03:54 by Mike @132.204.222.21 : Wow
What bigots the above two are! Amazed me that they would ridicule others so freely.
21 Aug 2007 @ 17:00 by @87.74.24.61 : prove the point
Actually, the comments by Emma and Isabel (Hmmmm same IP address..) prove the point very well, its acceptable by some and not others. Just shows how small minded some people are. I wonder if they have other judgemental hatreds too?
30 Aug 2007 @ 10:20 by ali-akbary @84.11.14.3 : huge
hello
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