Body paint... nude or not nude? | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 hidden)
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it posted with spaces in the link.

Get hyper:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/a round_town/nightlife/New_Ye ars_Playboy_Manion_Style.ht ml 

by Badass4Peace on 01/07/2009 02:03:45 AM EST

Good body paint covers a LOT (none / 0)
at least when shown on TV in pictures.

If it's done right it's surprisingly concealing. But yes, of course we live in a prudish society when it comes to nudity.

The other night I caught a few minutes of some Nightline or 20/20 special or something on ABC about women that breastfeed their kids until they're like 40. Ok, not 40, but the point is they go way past what's considered normal (one lady went to age 4, another until eight!).

At any rate, they blurred out some of the breast feeding scenes. Granted, *I* have no desire to see that, but at the same time I wouldn't melt or explode if I did. Christ, even if you're a religious prude, why would you be offended by a mom breastfeeding? What could be more innocent and "pro-life"?

Later that same day I caught a few minutes of a terrible movie on Sci-Fi channel (Return To House On Haunted Hill?) where a woman got her face caught off with a scalpel, and they showed her skin falling off revealing the blood/muscle underneath.

It's not an original point but I'm regularly astounded by the contrast of censorship in the US for nudity compared to violence.

by Tom Hanc on 01/07/2009 02:23:51 AM EST

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The contrast you mention is so utterly bizarre. Graphic acts of violence are frequently displayed on mainstream television. Graphic, gory, bloody stuff. Gun shots, autopsies, dismemberments, pools of blood... I feel creepy just typing this sentence. I've seen maybe three full episodes of CSI and in one of them I remember them showing a shot of a knife-tip breaking off after getting stuck against a person's rib. It was shot from INSIDE THE PERSON'S RIB CAGE. And think about the time Justin Timberlake ripped off a velcro costume-part expsing Janet Jackson's tit. Less than a second of boob and a metal-adorned nipple and the whole world goes apeshit.

Violence is antithetical to the human condition. Sex is not. (some may take issue with that first sentence, and I would agree, but so rarely has violence progressed humanity in non self-defense situation)

You're right, dude, it's nuts. Breast-feeding is as innocent and human as it gets. It's nepotism to the extreme! The sick fucks out there that sexualize it should have their nuts clipped and cauterized.  

Why, though? Have we de-emotionalized violence whereas sex is still wrapped in mazes of emotion? Is that it?  

 

 

 

by Badass4Peace on 01/07/2009 03:05:34 AM EST

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Body paint... nude or not nude? | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 hidden)