December 2, 2024

"'Looking at a girl totally naked is not exciting,' said Éric Stefanut, the communications director for the French Naturist Federation."

"Naturists, he explained, see new people naked all the time. 'So,' he added, 'it’s boring.'... When everyone in a room is naked, no one person stands out — although there were many body types among the visitors on Friday. There were tattoos and pierced nipples, ribs and fleshy tummies, bald spots and wispy beards. Scrotums and breasts swung wide. Some had cesarean scars.... Lucca Linke, 31, said she had thought about trimming her body hair. But why bother? Her friend, Kaja Baumgart, 22, agreed. She had worried that other guests would notice her tampon string. But soon, she said, she relaxed. 'Everybody is acting like normal,' she said. 'I can also be acting like normal.'"


It's art — purportedly — to take what is very interesting and endeavor to make it boring.

37 comments:

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Depends on the girl.

Drago said...

The coming sharia law in France will render all of this moot.

Enigma said...

The mid-20th-century naturists / nudists are back? These were the ones who went to rustic camps or low-budget lodging to play volleyball and swim in lakes naked. They seemed rather disciplined or dysfunctional about physical attraction, and indeed, more into sunshine than sex. Try naturism during Spring Break in Florida and see what happens...

I suppose they'll be added to the gender rainbow flag along with asexuals.

Yancey Ward said...

"There's good naked and there's bad naked."

RideSpaceMountain said...

"'Looking at a girl totally naked is not exciting"

- Éric Stefanut, homosexual

Quaestor said...

"It's art — purportedly — to take what is very interesting and endeavor to make it boring."

Dada, art as vaguely interesting rubbish. Dada Nouveau, art as jiggly, flabby, tedious nudity.

Given the mental depth of most nudists, boring unclothed flesh is something of an accomplishment, something on the order of training chimpanzees to harvest bananas.

BarrySanders20 said...

Is this an example of when the avant garde becomes just plain old garde?

Lilly, a dog said...

We're from earlier generations, where it was HARD to see naked women. You had to hide your dirty magazines from your mother. Now all the kids have porn delivery systems disguised as smartphones. So maybe this guy is right.

n.n said...

A nude girl is exciting. A nude girl with a prospective gentleman is joyful.

Aggie said...

Behold ! Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

rhhardin said...

After a while it's just your gf with no clothes on.

rhhardin said...

Kat Timpf quipped about some women being allowed to wear bottoms, "Nobody wants to see your mouse tail."

Jupiter said...

"It's art — purportedly — to take what is very interesting and endeavor to make it boring."
Well. To the extent that it is very interesting, the art is in making people behave as if it were not.

Jupiter said...

Ick.

Krumhorn said...

Is that the same as string art?

- Krumhorn

Gospace said...

Too much truth in that (satirical?) statement.

Gospace said...

I've been told that sunburn in more delicate places is far worse then the sunburn most of us at my age (69) have experienced.

Apparently if your child gets sunburn today- you can be charged with child abuse. For those of my age- it was a learning experience.

Leland said...

I have to agree. Strategically placed articles of clothing can be just as exciting. [provided for all the husbands getting their fill of Hallmark Channel]

ronetc said...

"Looking at a girl totally naked is not exciting," said no heterosexual man, ever. As the meme has it, the reaction to seeing the first boob is exactly same as the 10 thousandths. That is by actual research.

AndrewV said...
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AndrewV said...

I guess it's like going to a European nude beach only to find it is overweight middle-aged Germans there.

Skeptical Voter said...

Howzabout looking at a boy Eric? We'll see how excited you get.

Skeptical Voter said...

Geez I'm only about 8,500 behind you. Will I ever catch up?

Dixcus said...

A banana duct-taped to a wall went for $6.5 million the other day. The girl had better be damn hot.

Dixcus said...

There's a girl on OnlyFans making $49 million a year. Pretty sure looking at a totally naked girl is exciting for some. Maybe not French auteurs.

Tom T. said...

"It's art — purportedly — to take what is very interesting and endeavor to make it boring."

This describes French cinema.

Ampersand said...

Culture is a scheme calculated to make us forgetful of our fate as mere animals.

Drago said...

France will go Full Sharia in about 30 years, whereas the UK might get there faster.

The alliance between pro-islamic supremacists/pro-terrorist/dems/left everywhere in the west continues to grow at a rapid pace.

Its why joey bag-o-dementia was openly and proudly carrying around his pro-terrorist book just the other day.

The fact that Trump made significant electoral inroads in both conservative/othodox/practicing Jewish communities AND in muslim communities makes Trump's victory even more impressive.

Tom T. said...

I just googled Stefanut. I can't tell if he's gay, but (true fact) he works for a company called Semin. Heh.

pious agnostic said...

I learned long ago that, once you've seen one woman naked, you want to see all of them.

walter said...

Lizzo is listening.

rehajm said...

at least you’re not stuck on an odd number

Narayanan said...

has Seinfeld covered Everything Under The Sun!!!

Narayanan said...

Q Did Ben Franklin teach or learn air bath when in France?

MikeD said...

Well into my ninth decade and looking back, the only ones titillated by full nudity were pre=adolecents looking at National Geographic magazines.

Smilin' Jack said...

This would be a good idea in St. Tropez or Cannes. Not so sure about Marseille.

Yancey Ward said...

Now that is bad naked!