Streaking was all about mocking the prudish people who found nudity upsetting.
They would mock anyone who suggested nowadays that being unclothed was inherently a sexual offense akin to sexual molestation or something.
There would be a subtext to it (both then and now) that being prudish about SEX is something that should be mocked as well. Remember, the cheer at the time was “drugs sex and rock & roll”.
It is fair to point out that these cheerful people were often oblivious to consent issues, the presence of coercion within a lot of what passed for “sex”, and were often rather prefeminist in their notions of natural male and female sexual behaviors. But it’s reciprocally fair to point out that a discernable amount of prudery still gets woven into modern concerns about sexual consent if someone being unclothed is regarded as having done something to someone else without their consent.
No, you’re not embracing it. You’re just acknowledging that it exists, while simultaneously protesting it.
Huh?
If streaking is opposing a taboo, then reducing the taboo will decrease streaking. But if it’s as you say embracing the taboo, then reducing the taboo would increase it.
Seems to me that it’s becoming less common as people make more of a big deal out of nudity (while simultaneously accepting a lot more near-nudity.)
Nudity in single sex situations (using sex not gender on purpose here, because they were assumed to match and anybody who didn’t had to hide it) used to be considered normal in changing rooms and for males and sometimes females when swimming. Nudity in young children used to be considered entirely nonsexual and not to be an issue.
Doesn’t seem rare to me at all. Maybe we’re not reading the same threads?
Wow, you folks are sure putting more thought into motivation than we did when we were teenagers. Our decision process went more like this “Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about we ditch our afternoon classes, get stoned and streak the Inland Center Mall?” Everyone else “Cool man, let’s do it.”
Positives: air moving against your back instead of a sweaty shirt plastering itself against you
Negatives: stones, pine cones, cactus, broken glass, squishy slugs and other unpleasant things to step on barefooted; dangly bits flopping and flapping; sunburn; mosquitos feasting on all the exposed skin
I don’t think I’d enjoy 10K worth of the experience at all.
Not streaking, but this thread reminded me of those unfortunate male models who recently, for some reason, were taking to the catwalk with their junk sticking out.
I’ve never run naked that I can think of, and feel now like I need to just for the sake of experiment. But when you consider that running long distance is something that humans are pretty good at, and many of our ancestors particulalry in hot climes don’t wear clothes much at all let alone support underwear… I’m wondering if it is as painful as I imagine.
Hang on a few minutes. If I don’t post again shortly, I’ve been arrested.
Yup. And the combination of the public-event situation and the fact that the streaker was by definition running away (they might be briefly coming towards you, but everybody knew they were going to keep going) made the “threat” element entirely nonexistent.
