It’s great to see that Channel 4 has done it again. The new series is called “Naked Education”; the first episode deals with body hair. The programme wanted to dispel myths about body hair and had a small group of teens discussing it.
One young teen, Elliot (15), said he shaved his armpits to avoid smelling bad. He also said he thought shaving pubes was more hygienic and helped protect you from STIs. Thankfully they dispelled this myth, even saying that shaving could increase your risks of contracting an STI as shaving can damage the skin.
They had four models show their naked bodies to the teens. One lady said that an ex-boyfriend demanded she shave her pubes off. She refused, and they broke up. Hence why the presenter commented, “Pubes before dudes”. I’m a massive fan of pubes; the bushier, the better.
Personally, I think the obsession with body hair stems from porn. The vast majority of porn has performers with little or no body hair (gay and straight), and porn with body hair is considered a ‘fetish’.
The main thrust of the programme is to love who you are, no matter what body shape or how much or little hair you have. “The Naked Brigade” helps one young lady come to terms with herself. Being tall, she was teased mercilessly, and the group reclaimed all the insults thrown at them by writing them on their bodies.
I didn’t expect any full-frontal nudity as the programme aired at 8pm, before the UK’s 9pm watershed. Nothing unsuitable for children should be shown before 9pm, so it’s nice to see that the naked body is acceptable, in all its forms. As I try to espouse in the Cockaigne Chronicles, all nudity is not sexual, and sex does not always mean nudity.
While I agree with your statement nudity is not sexual, I’m in the states and we’ve been indoctrinated to view nudity in the wrong light. Even as our views have been loosened society on this side of the pond still makes a big deal of it. That’s why a casual glimpse of a woman’s breast in a movie will cause a PG-13 rating but showing a man’s penis is a definite R, if he’s erect NC-17 or X.
Shows like this would only be pay per view, and their genitalia would be pixellated
What’s acceptable in one culture can be completely taboo in another. I still remember watching the film “A Room with a View” and the scene where a group a men go skinny dipping. You get to see everything, cocks flopping around all over the place. And that was rated PG in the UK, so anyone could see it, of any age, as long as they were with an adult. This was in 1985.
Haha, I remember as a 13 y.o. boy way back in 1989 watching Room With A View on video with my then-15 y.o. sister. As we were home alone my sister paused and replayed that skinny dipping scene several times. We giggled and tittered about it but, at the same time, we both found it highly arousing too.
I loved that scene. And it was rated PG (UK rating) so it was shown when kids could watch. I certainly watched that scene over and over again!
It also brings back kinky memories for me. In the Cockaigne universe you often have male siblings discussing sex, etc. I never had a brother, just an older sister. But it was highly arousing when the two of us were alone, and she was in the mood or had been triggered by something (e.g. that scene), and she’d open up and talk explicitly about her sexual arousal, fantasies, likes, etc. which in turn would entice me to open up. In turns me on even now, thinking back to being a teenage boy and talking to my older sister about men’s bodies, cocks, etc.
Times have changed. Especially in Europe we’ve become more prudish with every generation. I can remember in the early to mid 70’s both men and women would sunbathe nude in city parks, although not strictly legal, it was not enforced by the police. And of course back then, no one had ever heard of shaving bodyhair, so it was bush/cock/balls/fanny galore.
And look at how the naturist/FKK culture has deminished. These days parents almost get drawn and quartered when people find out their (pre) teen children see them naked. A friend of mine told me he still shared a bath with his 4yo daughter just like he did since her birth. As long as there are no sexual implications, I see nothing wrong with that, but others talked about it in disgust. He never mentioned it again after that.
We had a tv programme like Naked Education last year on public television. It was called “bloot gewoon” which losely translates as “normal nudity”. It was a programme meant for 8-12 year olds. There was a campaign lanched to get it off air.
The world is definately getting more prudish. I grew up being body shamed and hated the way I looked, I suppose these days the pressure to have the perfect body is even worse than when I was growing up.
I wish I’d be born in, say, 1956 rather than 1976, and in Europe too. The early 1970s sounded like a lot of fun. Whilst my parents weren’t prudes they weren’t exactly naturists either. My older sister, on the other hand, and I did go in for a bit of casual nudity from time to time. Also, back in the 1980s and 1990s men’s showers and changing rooms at swimming pool tended to be open-plan so you’d get to see a lot of men naked. Sometimes I’d make my sister jealous by teasing her with stories of the men’s penises I’d seen in the showers, etc. She SO wanted to accidentally-on-purpose walk into the male changing rooms to have a look herself but never did.
I wish we would go back to the days of communal changing rooms and open showers. I might take up more sports! I loved seeing all those men’s cocks in my younger days.
Yes, I think I’ve commented on this before. The male changing rooms could be, depending on the day and/or time, such an arousing place. My favourite times were when it wasn’t very busy: just me as the only teenage boy in there and a handful — maybe even just one or two — “anonymous” older men. When it was like that I’d stay naked for as long as possible, act in a sort of flirty, almost borderline-slutty (without making it too obvious) way and then wait to see the reaction… a surprising number of “straight” men would become engorged. On rare occasions I might even be rewarded with the sight of a fully-erect mancock! I would love to back in time and take things further but I never did in real life. But that’s why I love imagining myself in the Cockaigne universe: depending on the fantasy I’m anything from 13~14 up to 18~19 again. I’m at the Cremaster Freedom Resort wandering around wantonly nude with my likewise wantonly nude sister (which’d make her anything from 15~16 up to 20~21 in this fantasy scenario). We stroll down to the lake. Maybe there’s a beach area by the lake which is a cruising area for gay men. Near to the beach is a small wood, or copse of trees at least, where the sucking and fucking takes place. (Maybe there are dispensers of lubricant set up, kindly refilled daily by staff, and maybe some small bottles of poppers too?)