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VENICE displays torsophobia
by SUN ( savefreedom [at] yahoogroups.com )
Sunday Jul 24th, 2005 10:35 AM
Italian city bans "torsonudismo". In contrast, Cologne cops merely warn bottomless shopper.
In Italy, prudish Venice now forbids "torsonudismo",
which means going shirtless.
Their municipal torsophobia
is part of a "zero tolerance" campaign
against "unseemly behavior".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/23/wvenice23.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/23/ixworld.html

In SUN's opinion, the only "seemly" aspect of Venice's
official behavior is that the city offers
EQUAL repression for all,
on a gender-neutral basis.



Meanwhile, in comparatively progressive Germany,
Cologne police merely warned a bottomless woman
who went grocery-shopping at 4AM,
wearing only an unbuttoned denim jacket.
She explained that she had lost a "spin the bottle" contest.

[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/message/20 ]



-- Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN) of San Francisco
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PS:
Ethnology queery:

If any readers know about German culture,
please explain how "spin the bottle" is played there.
In the USA, years ago, it was mainly a kissing game among children.
In Europe, is it an adult drinking game ?

Or a stunt game, like "Truth or Dare"?



context of torsophobia, etc.
by links
Sunday Jul 24th, 2005 10:48 AM

NUDOPHOBIA
(gymnophobia),

breastphobia
(mammaphobia),
phallophobia,
erotophobia,
torsophobia, etc. --
IndyBay links,
2004 - 2005:
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/09/1697160.php
(Did "nudophobia" cause SF death?,
30 September 2004)
.....
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/10/1697972.php
(More nudophobia in SF's Castro,
05 October 2004)
......
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1704993.php
(FCC airheads create false "videality" of SF,
12 November 2004 )
......................
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1708219.php
(How fascists use nudophobia as a power tool,
03 December 2004 )
...
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1712189.php
( Georgia nudophobes, 1 January 2005 )
.........
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1712695.php
(Nudophobes threaten Hollywood, 4 January 2005)
.........

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1714927.php
(Texas breastphobes vs. mural of topfree Eve, 15 January 2005)
...............

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1715728.php
( Are redstaters nudophobic and homophobic? Green Bay?
19 January 2005 )

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1716313.php
(Powerful breastphobe quits FCC, 21 January 2005 )
..................

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/02/1723816.php

(Koko faces breastphobia, homophobia, gorillaphobia,
26 February 2005 )

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1736124.php
( Phallophobia in Laramie, Wyoming,
5 May 2005)

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1742612.php
( Sacrilege and stripping- "worse than death"?,
27 May 2005 )
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1747079.php

( World Naked Bike Ride 2005,
12 June 2005 )
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1748971.php

( political nakity meets nudophobia,
22 June 2005 )

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749954.php

( Pakistani jihadi claims women interrogators were naked,
28 June 2005 )

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1755352.php

( Venice displays official torsophobia,
24 July 2005 )

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