On Nakedness and Nudity

In August last year, a New Zealand porn film producer organized a Boobs-on-Bikes parade. It is an annual event where dozens of beautiful girls ride on the backs of Motor Bikes dressed in skin tight leather pants and well... nothing else.



At the time, it caused a lot of brouhaha as the said producer applied for some council support with crowd control whereupon he was told he would need a permit for the parade. He defied the council and went ahead anyway with the parade, which was well attended! You can read the full story here.

And No I was not there as I was working very hard in the office at the time.

Anyway, I asked 2 posts ago if anyone had any ideas on the difference between Nakedness and Nudity.

Most dictionaries define them as one and the same but there is a fundamental difference.

Nakedness comes with an awareness of nudity and an attendant inhibition and embarassment.
Nudity is free of this awareness.

So if one of my flatmates was without clothes in her room, she would be described as being "in the nude". But if I charge into the room without knocking and see her in all her glory... she instantly becomes naked!!!

Nudist beaches contain a lot of people in the nude as everyone else there being without clothes and acting normally, removes that inhibition that causes nakedness. But if some dirty old man starts staring rudely at the nicely proportioned shape of some hapless damsel, and she notices him staring he instantly renders her naked.

Pretty interesting isnt it?

And just to make writing this post more enjoyable, I wrote it in the nude!!!