Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.rec.nude Subject: Re: Photography and Naturism Message-ID: <4888@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 12:36:45 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4888 Posted: Tue Jan 8 12:36:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 12:36:45 EST References: <303@wjvax.UUCP>, <324@ahuta.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 31 People's attitudes towards photographs vary a great deal. Personally, I don't like strangers taking photographs of me *with* clothes on. I am not even all that fond of having friends take pictures of me... It isn't that i subscribe to the ``visual rape'' theory, or that I think there is some chance that I will end up in the running for the ``Miss Ugly 1985'' [Hey! It's 1985 and they *didn't* blow up the world!] Contest, but simply that I consider my appearance part of me, and don't hand myself around indescriminately either... [yes! I know I post netnews :-)] Taking your camera to a nude beach is definitely going to upset people. A good many people will be there who really and truly think that there is nothing wrong with nudity but don't really want to begin spreading their enlightenment with their boss, or their maiden aunt in Raleigh, or any of a number of people who would be shocked if certain photographs magically appeared in the mail one morning... Not to mention what would happen if you were photographing for a college newspaper -- or perhaps even a city paper! Now, I doubt that you are going to do any of these, but then I have a generally optimistic opinion about the sort of people I find on nude beaches. But I will ask you to put the camera away. People come to the beach to *relax* *now*, not to fight for the right to relax without clothes on many (most?) (all?) beaches *someday*. Political activists need vacations too, just like other people! Laura Creighton utzoo!laura