Good post! As Abhijit observes it is about where one stands on the power spectrum. But I doubt the 'celebrity' themself chose that image or that occasion to reveal it. Sex is the most powerful force on earth, so it is no wonder it is used to sell things, whether that is a product or an image. Equally priests and politicians and pundits use our guilt, fear and resentment to control us, the weak and powerless...
I don't hide that I'm a naturist, and will often even make it a feature in a SFW sort of way rather than just be neutral (our car plate is NUDI for example). People either don't care or are openly positive with my lifestyle choice. Only once many years ago on a deserted beach have we been harassed by a person who went out of there way to be outraged.
we can't compare anything between powerful versus powerless. Celebrities, politicians, business tycoons, industrialists. religion leaders, they all have their own yardsticks. It's not only applicable in case of being naked but every aspects of the life.
Aah, celebrity culture - doncha just love it! I don’t think I’ve ever gone out and bought or done something because of a “celebrity”, not consciously, anyway, but the fixation so many people seem to have with the antics of the rich and famous in undeniable. On some fora naturists welcome the stories about celebrity nudity as endorsing and encouraging “the lifestyle”, but as getting naked is not a consumer activity it is one thing they do that doesn’t seem to imitated.
The reason they get plaudits for getting their kit off and we don’t is down to the old saying that “the people who go naked are the ones we don’t want to see naked”. Sigh.
Good post! As Abhijit observes it is about where one stands on the power spectrum. But I doubt the 'celebrity' themself chose that image or that occasion to reveal it. Sex is the most powerful force on earth, so it is no wonder it is used to sell things, whether that is a product or an image. Equally priests and politicians and pundits use our guilt, fear and resentment to control us, the weak and powerless...
I don't hide that I'm a naturist, and will often even make it a feature in a SFW sort of way rather than just be neutral (our car plate is NUDI for example). People either don't care or are openly positive with my lifestyle choice. Only once many years ago on a deserted beach have we been harassed by a person who went out of there way to be outraged.
we can't compare anything between powerful versus powerless. Celebrities, politicians, business tycoons, industrialists. religion leaders, they all have their own yardsticks. It's not only applicable in case of being naked but every aspects of the life.
Celebrities are a kind of royalty and they don't live by the same rules as us peasants.
And people don't mind seeing nude attractive people. Or at least thinking about them being nude. Celebrities are defined as being attractive.
Aah, celebrity culture - doncha just love it! I don’t think I’ve ever gone out and bought or done something because of a “celebrity”, not consciously, anyway, but the fixation so many people seem to have with the antics of the rich and famous in undeniable. On some fora naturists welcome the stories about celebrity nudity as endorsing and encouraging “the lifestyle”, but as getting naked is not a consumer activity it is one thing they do that doesn’t seem to imitated.
The reason they get plaudits for getting their kit off and we don’t is down to the old saying that “the people who go naked are the ones we don’t want to see naked”. Sigh.