It must have been for real...
 

..or else a newspaper so venerable, so respectable, so steeped in the traditions of quality journalism, as London's Daily Mail wouldn't have covered this promotional stunt for "tomorrow's episode of the new six-part series The Naked Office being screened on Virgin 1 at 9pm" would they?

Wow, how'd they get away with that?!? :eek:

Thanks

Fango

Just a much healthier attitude to non-sexual nudity on this side of the pond. We do not like guns much either;)

That may be true, but you can't tell me there's no public nudity laws in the UK...

Fango

Yes there are. The law states that being naked in public is not an offence, unless its accompanied by lewed or sexual behaviour. Being naked is just a state of being, rather than an act.

Thats how over 1200 people will be naked in London next month on their bikes, and how people stood naked on the plinth.

We have a healthier outlook than the USA, that's for sure!;)

Well, I'll be damned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8235959.stm

I stand corrected.

Fango

A few years ago some teenagers who lived in a small town in Vermont discovered there was no ordinance against public nudity. So, they started walking around public naked. They were guys, so no pictures.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1823185120070718

Even though nude sunbathing is legal in Vermont, I have never heard of anyone doing it. Any Vermont residents here?

I've visited Vermont, all I saw were cows and old wooden bridges. :mad:

I do remember reading something about the public nudity outbreak, I think it was in 2006 or 2007. It started with some girls flashing and then kind of grew from there. There was one report of two 20 something year old chicks sitting topless on top of a newspaper dispenser. I believe it ended when a group of guys and girls (girls going topless only) were all hanging around outside of a store, from there it was just outright banned.

Slick

I wish I could remember where i saw this, but about a week ago, I was looking at a more or less complete listing on line of all the states and communities in the US where one could legally be nude in public. For states, we had New York, Vermont, Ohio, Oregon and maybe a few others. I don't remember much else, but if I refind the page, maybe I'll link to it.

A week back I was really touting the UK because of this Barefest thing and the BIg Chill Festival. But now Barefest is looking more like Bustfest (and not the female type of bust either..). So....it remains to be seen WHAT country will host the first truly large all naked festival. I might put this question to Daniel Johnson of the Body Freedom Collaborate as a sort of challenge. Seems he has the power, motivation and experience to put on such an event here in the US. And just WHERE do you suppose he might choose to have it? Hint - not where the guns are.....


Klondike

Bennington College - There was a student, ummmm....what's the word....uprising about the college's crackdown on campus nudity.

Here's an excerpt from a recent student review of the college:

The amount of freedom Bennington students enjoy on a daily basis can take some getting used to, but students say their reputation for being dirty hippies is definitely overstated. Though they’re encouraged to be unconventional and artistic, they can’t even go around naked anymore: “You will very rarely see someone topless, and it is an extremely rare occasion when someone is fully nude. The college used to allow students to be nude on campus if it was not disrupting anyone else, however they have recently changed the rule, and nudity is no longer allowed on campus (after a conflict with an orientation leader who wanted to be nude while introducing freshman to the school in the Fall)” says one sophomore studio art major. The fact that going without clothes was permitted for several decades is less surprising when you consider the context. As an alum puts it, the school is “situated miles from town on acres of idyllic Vermont hills, the campus is self contained and self maintaining (kind of like a well designed fishtank).”

The isolation, the school’s small size, and the fact that women outnumber men on campus more than 2:1 all affect the campus’s social life. A sophomore theater major points out, “there is no college town. The closest city is Albany, NY which is about 45 minutes away. The town of Bennington consists of a Wal-Mart, a Hannaford, Price Chopper, multiple car dealerships, a bowling alley, and a Taco Bell/KFC joint restaurant. I do have to give "Four Corners" (where main street has an intersection with 3 other streets in the heart of Bennington) more credit than we do because it's very cute and has a coffee shop and a pet store and other places where Bennington college students could hang out but we don't.” Virtually everyone lives in one of 20 co-ed houses in close proximity to each other. So, says a junior music major, “the dating scene is a little tricky. Because the school is very small people often refer to it as ******uous. For instance, your next door neighbor might be hooking up with the guy/girl you were hooking up with three weeks ago, and it can get a little weird. However, plenty of people have great lasting relationships as well (myself included for a year and a half.)” And students this creative don’t have too much trouble coming up with their own fun.

This sounds to me quite a bit like Bard College on the Hudson River. Isolated. Elite. Liberal. I had heard that they had cracked down on the nudity at bennington, but Bard I think is still OK. I believe I have a quote about Bard in my Campus naked run thread. I will look and link to it, although we're getting a bit off topic for this thread...

EDIT: the link -

https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/show...highlight=Bard

KLondike

anyway, what I really meant to do was post these pics in case they have not been posted before. These came up in a search for The Naked Office.

KLondike

What was the name of "naked guy" in California back in the early 1990s? He used to go to his college classes completely nude until nudity was outlawed or something. Nevermind, I found out who he was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez

He apparently started suffering from schizophrenia-like symptoms and killed himself in jail.

I remember when he made big news. There was a picture of him sitting naked in a desk in class with a bunch of people around him.

It is interesting to see some states without public nudity laws because where I live, it has been outlawed forever. Technically, it is legal for a child age 9 years or under to go naked at the beach. But none ever do. The last time I saw that was when I was probably about 8 years old and then it was a toddler.

I wouldn't mind nudity at the beach or in designated park areas, but I don't want to see guys with their balls hanging out walking down the street.

The fact that the city of Berkeley had to adopt anti-nudity laws because of him shows you how stupid, self-centered and counter productive was his whole operation. If you are going to be a pioneer, you have to use your head because this scenario has been played out many times. Lax nudity laws can be easily reversed in a matter of weeks. This is also why Oregon may end up being less tolerant of nudity in a few years if Earth Friend Gen continues to prance around naked all over the state. One person can wreak a hell of a lot of damage...

I really don't think that naked anywhere, anytime is ever going to be a realistic goal for the body freedom advocates. Set your sights lower, because if you adopt that attitude, many people are going to begin to feel legitimately threatened - they will be scared to leave the house with their kids, they will be scared to go to the store, etc, etc. I support nudity in public parks within designated zones, and limited nudity in the streets (generally associated with an event). Also, the pioneers that get naked to test the laws are OK, as long as they don't threaten to stay naked day after day after day...

Anyway, Martinez was not a BF advocate, just a kook and more like an exhibitionist streaker.

Klondike

I think if someone chooses to take offense, and challenges it, then it must stop.

The basic point is the law is not clear, but being nude in public is not in itself an offense.

Balls of Steel had a "Naked Man" who just did nude in public, but then there was the naked rambler, who kept getting stopped - I think he may even have been prosecuted.

Moreover, anyone choosing to walk naked down a high street "for the fun of it" MIGHT be subject to some police attention. Nudity in public is NOT legally protected- I think things like the naked bike ride rely on strength in numbers, and generally being a "offical" event.

So, has anybody found any other pictures of this yet? I find it hard to believe that nobody but an official news organization took pictures of this. Surely there must have been some camphones out and snapping away.

Fango

Scotland is a little different:

http://nakedwalk.org/

Jailed in February for 21 months, wow!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/8504762.stm

I'm not sure what his protest is actually accomplishing.

There were also prosecutions in the North of England, for outdoor "indecentcy" , so it's kind of confusing.