{"id":603,"date":"2013-07-05T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-07-05T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:13:08","slug":"discrimination-against-the-male-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2013\/07\/discrimination-against-the-male-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination against the male body?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; }\n--><\/style>\n<p>A little while ago I wrote a blog post about clothes and not wearing any. In that post I inserted a small nudist image of myself that I took on my vacation in England. I stored that image on Photobucket.com, a place that usually is quite good about storing images with undressed people. However, when I looked at the blog post a day later, the image was gone. It was replaced by a placeholder stating that the image was removed as it offended against Photobucket&#8217;s regulations and national laws.<\/p>\n<p>The offending image in question is this one (original size too):<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/zjuzdme.dnsdojo.com\/zmnu\/NudeInWales.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deleted by Photobucket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(obviously no longer hosted on Photobucket)<\/p>\n<p>As you see, there&#8217;s nothing explicit or offending in it (at least, I think so). The interesting bit is that Photobucket doesn&#8217;t have any qualms about hosting a picture that shows a woman with full frontal nudity:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nudist surfer photo nudist001_zps0d7f2986.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/i1281.photobucket.com\/albums\/a511\/zjuzdme\/nudist001_zps0d7f2986.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Image linked directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/i1281.photobucket.com\/albums\/a511\/zjuzdme\/nudist001_zps0d7f2986.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Photobucket<\/a>, same image, original size as well.)<\/p>\n<p>Is it really so horrible and offending to look at a nude man that &#8216;national law&#8217; makes them take down that picture? Or is this more something that Photobucket themselves enforce without being honest about it? I can imagine that there are more men working there than women, and most of them probably aren&#8217;t nudist or naturist, nor understanding of that. Am I wrong in assuming that they&#8217;d rather see a naked woman than a naked man, just because the emphasis is on &#8216;naked&#8217;? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>My picture does not show child-porn, it&#8217;s not explicit in any sexual way. I&#8217;m simply leaning on a wall and look out over the area. And I&#8217;m wearing no clothes. In the other picture a woman is walking over a beach and carries a surf board. And she is wearing no clothes.<\/p>\n<p>I dare state that accepted nudity would eliminate this discriminatory problem. After all, nude is nude, regardless if it concerns a man or a woman. As long as nudity is considered something to be secretive about, the general public will never be educated and nudism will never become a normal (accepted) thing.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/zjuzdme.dnsdojo.com\/zmnu\/NudeInWalesCensored.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is probably better for Photobucket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad that the definition of norms always rests with a majority. After all, a majority can mean that all the fools are on one side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I wrote a blog post about clothes and not wearing any. In that post I inserted a small nudist image of myself that I took on my vacation in England. I stored that image on Photobucket.com, a place that usually is quite good about storing images with undressed people. However, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2013\/07\/discrimination-against-the-male-body\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discrimination against the male body?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,95],"tags":[123,72,124],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-outside","category-clothes-free","category-naktivism","tag-acceptance","tag-male-nudity","tag-nudism-is-not-porn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}