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Comrades of the European Internet Forum,

enough is enough!

For decades, we have placed ourselves in the cultural shadows - well-behaved, conformist, as if we were the ill-educated child of the great American moral uncle, who must not be too loud, not too naked and certainly not too independent. While half-naked shoulders are censored at high school graduation ceremonies in the USA, heads are thrown around like bowling balls in TV series. All normal, all ‘entertainment’. But woe betide you if you see a nipple - then the censorship hammer screeches louder than a Trump on Truth Social.

I ask you: What has become of Europe?

We, the continent-born of the Enlightenment, the revolutions, the renaissance of nudity on canvas, in stone and on film - we have allowed a country that bottles cheese in cans, of all things, to tell us what is ‘moral’!

It's not moral, it's demurely stupid.

Why are depictions of violence in mass media allowed to flow freely like American fracking oil, but natural, aesthetic, tasteful nudity - which has been part of European art and culture for centuries - is algorithmically filtered out, demonetised and labelled with warnings as if it were uranium?

No more prudish double standards!

We need a cultural return to what we have to offer:

  • Enlightenment instead of transfiguration.
  • Pleasure instead of violence.
  • Nudity as an expression of naturalness - not as a moral offence.

I call on you: Banish pixelated prudery! Let's tear apart the corset of American moral dictatorship like a badly programmed DRM protection! Save the freedom of the breast - for Europe!

Stop aligning your films, games and series with a market that beeps ‘fuck’ five times but completely waves ‘shoot him in the face’ through.

We are not Hollywood's post office box. We are Europe. We are culture. We are naked! - So, metaphorically. And sometimes literally. And that's okay.

Thank you for your attention!

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[–] Mandelbrot@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

I don’t know, but there’s very chilly weather here and my pee pee is shrinking. Maybe we could try again in the summer?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because there is nothing wrong with it.

fair enough i suppose.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Because it's artistic and natural.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I took my clothes off I don't know what else is going on but I'm having a good time thanks for inviting me I really appreciate it

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 23 hours ago

Username checks out?

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] hallunke23@troet.cafe 28 points 2 days ago

“A reliable way to incapacitate Americans” @GenosseFlosse

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago

I didn't take my dick out for Harambe, but I'll do it for Europe

[–] Noerknhar@feddit.org 117 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! But actually, what?

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

I have no idea what I just read, but it sounded like something I should agree with

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Amen to that.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ironically this comment implies there's something morally wrong or depraved about that, or that wanting to look at boobs is an inherently sexual thing (to which only an immoral degenerate would succumb), which is exactly the kind of Puritan-derivative "sex bad" mindset that the post is rallying against.

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[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 21 points 2 days ago

The nudity taboo is a conspiracy by the textile industry to sell more clothes.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's a funny post, but a serious point. The Europe of my childhood was different countries all very different from the US. But over time American media and algorithmic dominance are eroding things toward being America with accents. And what will you get for throwing away that cultural identity? Americans will still sneer at Europe.

I think a trickier question is: if Europe ought to retain its own identity, then shouldn't each European country retain its own identity instead of banding together as "Europe".

[–] Mavytan@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

My view is that it's not necessary to pit regional identity vs European identity. I think it's possible to have them side by side. I appreciate many things in my region that make up our identity, but at the same time as a European I can also appreciate many cultural aspects of other regions

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I find identity tends to be like an onion, in that it has layers.

Also in that picking it apart is an unpleasant experience that frequently ends in tears.

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[–] abobla@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

HELL YEAH!

light nsfw meme

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[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It happened that the US was the largest provider of entertainment during the last almost century. But it really stops now: their craziness become too obvious and irritating so I expect their influence will also diminish.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 47 points 2 days ago

Haha written like a pamphlet during the Industrial Revolution. I love every part of this.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been to a bunch of nudist events in Australia, naked bike ride, nude beach, life drawing events, confest hippie festival and some gallery openings. I've also studied anatomy. People need to get their head right about what it means to be naked. Everyone has a body, and should be more comfortable with it.

Edit: Chatting with yanks on deaddit, they largely seem so afraid of nudity that they'll be calling the police if there's an adult naked around a child where in many other parts of the world it's completely normal, eg modest family bathing scenes in anime.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your rears!

We are all ich bin ein wieners now.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm down.. And already naked. While we're at it, let's drop the prepubescent hairlessness.

[–] fikniefnadjofullinn@feddit.is 31 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Let's just let people groom themselves however they prefer. We need to normalise accepting bodies of all kinds instead of pushing people to some particular ideal.

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