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Kanye West pulled an insane stunt at the Grammys where he had his wife strip naked in front of where they take the pictures. Clearly a publicity stunt (since he wasn’t invited anyway), and he quickly got kicked out.
What’s shocking to me is how freely so many media outlets and people on social media are sharing it completely uncensored. For some reason X doesn’t seem to be marking it as pornography either. It’s quite disturbing to me how widely and casually it’s being shared. I’m not going to link because I don’t think it’s good to share this type of thing but I’m sure a quick search will find the video in question.
The worst part is that his wife looks clearly disturbed, sad, and afraid as he stands there looking around in a sort of combative way. It’s truly awful.
A lot of people on the right saw Kanye as a sort of martyr who stood up for his beliefs enough to get completely cancelled. Hopefully this stunt shows that he is not truly aligned with most conservative’s values, and is just a billionaire who loves attention. We’ll see how it goes.
Man, nudity. Not necessarily something you want to see from everyone, but surely some billionaire's wife is easy enough on the eyes. And even if she isn't, we just return to the default case of "well that's just what people look like under their clothes". I don't understand the American War On Nudity, though I shall tolerate your prudish culture.
American culture is far more tolerant of nudity now than it ever has been. When else would television shows like The Boys and Game of Thrones get away with showing so much of the human anatomy as within the last three decades?
Boy’s nude swimming was a mandatory subject in American public schools until the seventies.
Right after penis inspection day, right?
No, Americans just used to have a very different attitude towards (male)semi public nudity.
Those were not the only different attitudes. Those attitudes existed at a time boys would receive direct instruction on the dangers of preditory homosexuals. Homosexuals could be excluded from many places due to their propensity for unnatural un-chastites.
The YMCA had greater focus on young Christian men. There are lots of older pagans at the YMCA where my children swim. I'd prefer the organization to return to Muscular Christianity.
I don’t know that gay rights has anything to do with changing attitudes on the subject- skinny dipping went from boys being boys to being unacceptable before attitudes shifted about homosexuality. But it did coincide with gender desegregation. The YMCA introduction of bathing suits came when the YWCA was shut down and merged; boys nude swimming ceased when swimming lessons went coed. The YMCA was also notorious as a den of homosexuality during this period and nobody worried about adults-on-minors predation very much in postwar america, homosexual or not.
It was removed from the DSM for the '74 edition.
Boys Beware saw several updates.
Boys Aware
Boys Beware, 3rd
Someone was concerned enough about homosexual grooming and predation to make several films.
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