Auckland Boobs
August 27th, 2006 at 11:53 am by David FarrarThe Dominion Post editorial smuggly proclaims that Wellington has the World of Wearable Art, the Rugby Sevens and the International Festival of the Arts while Auckland has Boobs on Bikes.
Kerre Woodham also notes how the controversy drew massive crowds.
What I have found amusing is the number of comments on this blog about the parade.
158 comments on the parade numbers thread.
176 commentsd on the original thread.
And a massive 411 comments on this thread on the police ruling the parade legal.
I think this makes it the most debated issue yet on Kiwiblog!
Tags: Local Body Politics
August 27th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I’ve got dozens of searches every day hitting my site and I didn’t even mention it.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Ah, yes, this is the DomPost that decided to gratuitously decorate a story on some tennis match with a 1/4 page pix of Anna Kournikova scratching her arse?
Rosemary McLeod’s SST column was particularly amusing: Steve Crow is a filthy, perv and hypocrite. Let’s not mention the media that were all over the Boobs on Bikes parade like flies on shit – or the ‘About Time’ gossip insert in the same paper full of photos and banal gossip items about bimbos whose sole achievement is acting out in trendy bars. But, hey, it sells newspapers. It’s selling dirty DVDs that’s really evil.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Sorry, there are pics of Anna scratching her bum?
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
I must say that publishing the first photos of the boobies has done wonders for my hit rate.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Lol… there’s a tag for boobs… hee!
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
To me, boobies are like free speech. I would defend to the death people’s right to show/see them, even if I’m personally over it. No one wants to see my boobies
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Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
i was part of the crowd milling around at the staging point of the boob parade…and yep!..it was sodden with media faces/cameras….
the part i liked was the o/s porn star telling all the waiting (mainly) men…that in about five minutes she and the others would “..be getting their puppies out..”
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Phil, I note from some comments around the blog today that you “walked the dogs” twice today. I’m seeing you in a whole new light Phil. Whoar!
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Zen, then you’ll be in a lather to hear I stroked my pussy 3 times.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Although I was happy enough for the parade to proceed, at the same time it was an object lesson in how immature our collective attitude to nudity is. Personally my partner and I will get naked whenever we feel like it, beaches, streams, sunny bush spot, etc. We’ve been nude in groups, at clubs and private resorts. In public it has little to no sexual connotation for us, although in private it is a different story.
Some years back my partner’s Polish cousin stayed 6 months with us. We spent much of the summer in the SI and as we were all keen outdoors types, we spent a lot of it tramping. Frankly we had trouble keeping clothes on her regardless of who was around. But what became clear was that because SHE was so unselfconcious about it, then everyone else we met quickly accepted her toplessness or full nudity as ok. Well yes she is a very striking woman in her 30′s and yes she was quietly admired often, but no-one made a fuss or leered at her crudely. Because she was relaxed, so was everyone else.
I realised from this experience that immodesty is a behaviour, not a lack of dress. From this perspective question the Boobs on Bikes parade looks quite different. It’s purpose was to promote a commercial expo. The fact that it gained ANY public attention at all, and has been a major success for it’s backer, is the aspect that tells us a lot about ourselves. It was not the boobs per se that I think was the problem, but the fact that they were publically exposed in such a clearly sexual context that is the root of the discomfort.
Humans are genetically wired to do sex in private. It appears to be a very old evolutionary habit. I recall the first few times I saw other people having sex in real life as quite confronting, yet it is like a fear of heights, it is one of those primitive brain reactions that can be overcome. Ask any rock-climber. The fear of exposure is initially very strong, but very quickly the mind adapts and learns to function in the new environment.
Sexual privacy (or fear of sexual exposure) is an innate primitive fear. Throughout our history this fear has been exploited (like all our fears) for the purposes of social control, resulting in immense tracts dysfunction, shame, jealousy, guilt and plain old misery disfiguring our relationships. Kept hidden, behind private doors this misery multiplies, festers and distorts our emotional lives.
Yet I guess the world nowhere near ready for us to all trot about naked and happily copulate in public just yet. Nor am I am actually advocating that….no more than I am advocating that we all take up rock-climbing in very high places to overcome our fear of heights. But collectively our “fear of public sexuality” is rather like our new found “fear of terrorists”….much hyped beyond the reality.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
You are not a farmer are you Logix.
Vote:August 27th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Yeah Logix, if you were a farmer you’d realize Boobs are just things you squeeze milk out of.
Vote:August 28th, 2006 at 2:57 am
“Yeah Logix, if you were a farmer you’d realize Boobs are just things you squeeze milk out of.”
To be more pracise boobs are things governments squeeze tax out of…then get voted back in to keep doing it.NZ….Moooooooooooooooooooooo!
Vote:September 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 am
jonny
Vote:October 18th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
I don’t find that at all funny james.
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