| ilas123 |
06-30-2022 05:30 PM |
And a little word on why we might not see a lot of nudity at Roskilde this year, even at the bathing lake:
The festival has launched a new red wristband, being given to people who has done something unwanted at the festival this year as some kind of warning. Having one of those will both get you on the brink of being kicked out and cause everybody else to see that you've done something terrible.
One of the things that can get you a warning is what's called "blufærdighedskrænkelse" which can both mean that you have been abused or touched unwantedly in a sexual way, which is of course very serious.
More importantly in the matter of why nobody is naked this year, are the definition where you go public naked or flash a private part but this nudity is not wanted by one or more people around you. This also falls under this definition. But the definition of when something is "blufærdighedskrænkelse" or not, is very fluid. And the festival hasn't described their own boundaries on this matter very well, so it seems like this year women just keep their bikini tops on and men don't get naked by the lake in large numbers, to be on the safe side.
Of course, you can be topless anywhere in Denmark, also at Roskilde. But when your written rules are deficient and ambiguous, people just entirely stay away from doing anything that could be forbidden. Because even though toplessness is legal. People are by law also in their right to feel violated and harassed about seeing another person naked or topless if they didn't want to and thereby file a police report or in this case complain to the festival officials with the red wristbands.
Nothing will probably happen if you are naked. We saw this today even though the situation is a little different when you know there's a naked run and is able to leave before it starts. But people simply don't seem to take any chances besides that.
And something new I learned this year: The participants actually sign a document stating that they are okay being naked in the naked run, that they are over 18 and that they are informed, and that they are giving their consent that they will be photographed, interviewed and that photos will end up in public. They can even agree to the organizers giving their phone numbers to the press, so they can be contacted afterward for interviews.
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