01/07/2009 01:27:19 AM EST

Body paint... nude or not nude?

posted by Badass4Peace

While searching my local news outlets for information about a multi-car accident I drove past the other day I came across this:


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While searching my local news outlets for information about a multi-car accident I drove past the other day I came across this:

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

While having my loins unexpectedly riled is certainly a good thing I couldn't help but wonder about some of those pictures. Those women are naked. Butt-ass naked. Except, they're not. They're wearing body paint; body paint that just happens to look like skimpy lingerie.  As if actually wearing skimpy lingerie isn't enough now we live in a society where women paint themselves to appear AS IF they are wearing skimpy lingerie. (To be fair, they don't do the painting themselves; that job belongs to some job-lotto-winning sum'um'um'bitch.)

Since they're not wearing clothes shouldn't they be censored by the powers that censor? Or is it okay to see them and their glorious contours because their shapes aren't flesh-colored? Are they wearing liquid clothing?

I've seen body-painted chicks on plenty of other occassions and it's never blurred out or blocked the way an actual naked person would be. Aside from the usual loin-rileage I always wonder about the silliness of censorship, how our society is at times so prudely sensitive and yet so base and vulgar at the same time. It occurs to me just now that perhaps both exist not in spite of each other but because of each other. It's binary. Every hero needs a villian. Salt needs pepper. Cheese needs crackers. What I mean is if it wasn't for the forbidden nature of sexuality, sexuality wouldn't seem like such a big deal.

Those are my thoughts. What are yours? 

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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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Same here (none / 0)

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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Im more hung up on beautiful 19 yr olds (none / 0)
living with an 83 yr old man

by 14K on 01/07/2009 02:04:33 AM EST

The first picture that comes up (none / 0)
Man, those are three questionable faces. The left face is the best but that's not saying much. Ok, to be fair maybe she's hot but it's hard to say with that insane level of makeup.

And that middle face is brutal.*






*What, did you expect a substantive comment on this topic rather than a superficial one?

by Tom Hanc on 01/07/2009 02:17:42 AM EST

It's not like... (none / 0)

... that middle face is the crypt-keeper's daughter but you're right, of the three her face is the worst.

I'm compelled to defend her and say that it's just a funny angle. The eyes do weird things at wrong at angles. Just like there are sweet spots in photography there are sour spots and that would seem to be one of them. I'm sure from other angles she's plenty hot.

Speaking of angles, notice how the middle one's *ahem* "flesh apples" point off at different directions. I don't complain. It's fine with me. I'll take 'em wide-out, straight-on or cross-eyed any day. It's all candy to me!

But enough of that, let's have some substantive discussion, damnit! 

by Badass4Peace on 01/07/2009 02:27:06 AM EST

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Disturbing (none / 0)
Look at image 3 in that link you posted.

by Tom Hanc on 01/07/2009 03:41:55 AM EST

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We need edible body paint. (none / 0)

Mmmmm.

I agree.

 

by Hilikus9191 on 01/07/2009 02:37:10 AM EST

When will America accept that censorship is bad? (none / 0)
Censorship is not a sign of a free society, let alone one that proclaims to be the free-est (BS of course), a naked nipple never killed anyone America, accept them :)

STOP with all the blurring, bleeping, black squarring, cutting the feed, ... and be FREE

by callisto on 01/07/2009 07:40:22 AM EST

Censorship is NOT bad (none / 0)
Censorship is needed to help curb maturity levels, like with Girls magazines and unhealthy body images of stick thin women having a bad effect on their own self image.  A world where Ad's push sexual lines etc, or appear on TV stations meant for less mature audiences would lead to Confusion in what is acceptible for that age group.

Would you want to drive with your 8 year old son and him see a naked girl on a billboard having sex with a bottle of Vodka in her hand?  It would lead to a wonderful talk of "what are they doing" when the kid isnt mentally ready for the full talk (yes he should know SOMETHINGS about sex but not be pushed with the full imagery).

So censorship is a good thing,  but for mature channels/latenight programming i believe america tends to overly censor sexual imagery, while OVERWHELMINGLY fail at censoring violent imagery.

but in the end Censorship has its place in even a "Free" society.

Youd be a fan of censorship if you had a 5 year old boy watching Sesame street and big bird starts shouting out curse words and racial epithats, cause its not appropriate for the audience watching =P   Just expand that example to include teens etc who are already Suseptable to suggestion and have a PROVEN, Hampered Judgement for Risky decisions.

Censorship in sumation, is a good and needed thing.

by Ectheleon on 01/07/2009 02:54:52 PM EST

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There is a difference between censorship and ... (none / 0)
age appropriate

>Would you want to drive with your 8 year old son and >him see a naked girl on a billboard having sex with a >bottle of Vodka in her hand?

1. no sane person would do that, usually it's conservatives coming up with stuff like this
2. you don't put hot naked women on a billboard, it causes accidents
3. there is a difference between showing a nude boob on TV and porn before a certain hour

>Sesame street and big bird starts shouting out curse >words and racial epithats

why would you do this in a kids show?

I'm just sick of the bleeps on shows ment for a more adult audience

I have no problem with, I am for age appropriate planning etc, but the current censorship on American TV is just insane

by callisto on 01/08/2009 12:54:50 PM EST

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Television networks fear the FCC so much (none / 0)
because of nipplegate, MSNBC (a cable network) felt obliged to pixelate the butt (no hole showing) of the man who was caught in the skilift accident.

bare butt on ski lift

obtw >>> I used the image insert popup but it doesn't seem to work

by gatekeeper50 on 01/07/2009 10:08:56 AM EST

leatherneck blondes (none / 0)
is it me or do those twins have ginormous mandibles?

by hazmat on 01/07/2009 03:32:51 PM EST

Mmmmm. Body painting. (none / 0)

"Those are my thoughts. What are yours?" 

In picture number 6 in your link, am I crazy or does that look like John McCain?  And is that girl trying to keep his hands from inching lower?

I'm not sayin' anything, I'm just sayin'.

by bfaul on 01/07/2009 05:53:28 PM EST

Awesome (none / 0)
You nailed it (but in McCain's defense she *does* have a killer body).

PS---Someone needs to agree with me that pic # 3 is horrifying.

by Tom Hanc on 01/07/2009 06:18:26 PM EST

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Another 3psi and those things are going (none / 0)
to explode !*!*!  She doesn't have to worry about drowning though.

by gatekeeper50 on 01/07/2009 10:06:19 PM EST

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Good point. (none / 0)
Very pragmatic. Plus she doesn't need front airbags in her cars.

by Tom Hanc on 01/07/2009 10:18:30 PM EST

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Totally agreed (none / 0)
Give me a small breast with natural hang any day of the week over one of those grisly flesh balloons.  Echh!

by bfaul on 01/08/2009 09:07:01 AM EST

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I agree (none / 0)
although I'd prefer a large breast with a natural hang.

;)

by Tom Hanc on 01/08/2009 09:13:38 AM EST

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