Thanks AF, your second post helped. Maybe "non-sexual" is more about behavior (or imagining behavior-- the act of sex) rather than general feeling. By your definition, I'm all for "non-sexual nudity", though I'd never call it that. I love nudity incorporated into everyday life, and activities. I'm not imagining having sex while looking at these photos.
As for exhibitionism, maybe it's down to word choice again. I find it very hard to believe that there isn't a thrill from breaking this huge taboo that's ingrained in all of us. That feeling of freedom must have a strong sexual element... it must be in there somewhere, even if no sex act is on the mind. I think it's just human. Refer to it as "getting off" though, and that wonderful, expansive, physical, animalistic feeling becomes sordid.
I can't imagine that the good, valid, important message of WNBR is all people have on their minds. I can't believe that thousands of people who never would think about being naked in public otherwise, heard about this way of protesting overdependence on oil, and said "Hmm, this sounds like an interesting way to send the message." Is it even the best way to send that message? You don't break that millennia-old taboo in that practical or casual a way, just for politics.
I'm going on too much about this, and I'm not sure why. I'll figure that out after I sleep and rest my brain a bit...
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