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ar60:

I am born in a country where the Republic is represented by a woman and Liberty is a woman showing her breasts. I am born with this symbol and I always saw my compatriots accept it because this painting was on bank notes.

I am born in a country where statues of naked women and men are exposed in public squares like museums or parks. No one has ever hidden the eyes of the children playing next these statues, or forbid them to visit the Louvre museum with their school.

I am born into a family that taught me to accept difference and respect this difference as long as the other does not impose his law and his moral. I’m not offended when I see a woman on the beach with naked breasts nor when a woman wears a religious veil if she chooses to do it. I remember being in these situations as a child and never had anyone made a bad remark to them. Okay, it was the 80s, during the evening, The Collaro show offered a stripper and it was watched on TV by the whole of France.

I am born in a country whose artists learn drawing by sketching nudes. Nobody shouts scandal because he draws a chest or buttocks.

I am born into a family whose grandparents had a crucifix hanging on the wall above their bed. It was not only a cross but also a man with a half-naked body. I was never shocked by his nakedness but by the violence of his death venerated by people who want to cover women as they covered Eve with her hair to hide her nakedness. Do they also want women to stay at home to look after their children and give pleasure to their husbands?

Is it in this world that a woman can emancipate if her nakedness is censored with the pretext that she can shock or incite rape? Let’s start by educating men and teaching them to differentiate between consent and harassment, teach them not to violate, and then humanity can move forward.

If nudity hinders, I just suggest levels in which everyone would find themselves: All-rated for all public, R-rated for adults but soft and X-rated for pornography. This system existed for other platforms. Everyone would find its happiness there.

Because I am born and I live with these symbols, because I learned that the history of my country was made with women with bare breasts waving the flag of revolt I’m shocked to discover these same symbols censored soon.

Alex@r60 – December 2018

Tableau d’Eugène Delacroix – la liberté
guidant le peuple, 1830

“Toute atteinte à la liberté de l’amour est une protection accordée au vice. Quand on barre un fleuve, il déborde ; quand on comprime une passion, elle déraille.”

Rémy de Gourmont – “La culture des idées” (1900)

Source: ar60