Good Nudes is Good News

Men and even women, throughout the ages, has always been fascinated by nakedness. A case in point is Peeping Tom, the eponymous voyeur who dared to gaze upon Lady Godiva, wife of the Earl of Mercia, when the good lady rode naked through the streets of Coventry at one fine afternoon. Legend has it that Tom was struck blind; that it was sanctified punishment for delighting in the pleasure of the eye in the sight of an unclothed charming female.

Peeping Toms comes in many varied forms; whether as the nineteeth Century spinster, a spy glass pressed to her eyes, searching a a distant sea for naked male swimmers, or in this day and age, a photographer whirling low in a helicopter, again and again, over a nudist camp.

The book 'The Thousand Nights and One Night' praises a woman who has a perfect waist and must be plump and lusty. With cheeks of perfect oval, she will have an elegant nose and graceful mouth, her neck long and swanlike, her breasts are full and firm, her belly in good poportion. She must have white smooth thighs and firm buttocks, a waist of fine shape, the hips large and full and hands and feet of large elegance. If one looks at a woman with those qualities in front, is fascinated; if one looks from behind, one is smitten with pleasure. Looked at her sitting, she is a rounded dome; lying, a soft bed.

In ancient Greece, nakedness was was tolerated among the people; at religious ceremonies they disrobed at the temples in the purity of their bodies, and at the gymnasia, athletic men performed their physical exercises completely in the raw, proud in the display of their genitals. But the Romans practically worshipped nudity and wherever decorum permitted, the ladies and gentlemen would doff their togas and robes and have jolly Bacchanalia rites i.e. "The murals of Pompeii where Roman citizens are pictured having a jolly good time as naked as a babes.' Only at the dawn of the new faith was the curtain drawn to the sight of naked flesh.