Olympic Nudes and Nude Olympics · Aug 10, 08:07 AM
I have to laugh at all the furor over Amanda Beard’s new poster for PETA (a fury over furry) that was supposed to have its launch at the Olympics. Chinese authorities canceled the planned unveiling, citing safety concerns.
Ain’t it always the way with repressive regimes? It’s always about somebody’s safety. See a finely tuned human body and suddenly your roof is in danger of falling on you.
Does anybody besides me see this as idiotic? Shouldn’t the unfailing warning sign of totalitarian bullshit be that seeing God’s creation, the human body, is said to be “dangerous”?
Warning, regime ahead.
Yeah, the Greek’s ran around nude in the Olympics in the good olden days. It wasn’t that way from the start. It got that way for the same reasons that modified sports cars were allowed to race in auto races. It started with cheating that couldn’t be easily stopped, then progressed to allowing everyone to cheat “equally.”
So a dude has an “equipment failure” during a foot race, knowing that drag will be reduced by his clever actions in losing his shorts. Knowing that this sort of thing would catch on after a few wins by the naked runners, officials simply banned clothing.
Case closed. They were not a totalitarian regime in those days trying to get people to work their fingers to the bone rather than getting a boner.
But I liked the responses to the news that sweet Amanda had appeared nekid on a poster:
I think it is incredible that someone is so interested in showing their body during the Olympics that they embarass our country by showing how rude and non morale our ladies are.
If the Olympics isn’t about showing finely tuned athletic bodies, then what is it about exactly?
That’s just nuts. What does a fine naked body have to do with morality anyway?
So you know that Arizona hosts a Nude Olympics?
— Guido Veloce
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