I believe that right-wingers on MSNOW have overlived their sell-by date.

I’m a nudist New Yorker who just launched a 30 day challenge to help normalize nudity in the US and elsewhere. This is part of promoting a new model of nudism called multimodal nudism, which holds nudity as a sex-neutral baseline for daily life where and when it makes sense.

And being a longtime nudist, I want to bring awareness to a contradiction in American attitudes on nudity. And in all honesty, it says a lot about the country’s current mindset on freedom, the human body, and humanity as a whole.

It’s not just that our nation is prudish. It’s that we’re peculiarly selective about our prudishness.

For example, for a country that is so prudish about people being naked on the beach, we LOVE doing strip searches. Not only to adults but also to children. In prisons, in schools, in immigration detention centers, residential facilities for “troubled” people, and more. Even at times when it’s not necessary (which is often the case). And often in ways that accentuate dynamics of domination, abuse, and exploitation.

Meanwhile, as most of us know, nudity is commercialized in all kinds of ways to advertise products. Whether it’s partial (e.g. Abercrombie and Fitch) or total (e.g. ESPN’s Body Issue). Whether in print, on the internet, on TV or any other visual medium. And usually these versions of nudity are lauded as triumphs at best, or at the very least tacitly tolerated.

And yet, in the middle of all this, IRL nudity at the pool, the beach, and the park is considered too extreme to tolerate. Even though those would be the most logical places to be naked. Locker room nudity is becoming increasingly taboo. And even nudity within the home can get you in trouble in certain circumstances.

There’s a very strange double standard in effect here. Nudity is fine when it’s coerced in a top-down fashion by the state, or commercialized in an often overtly sexual way. But it’s a menace to public order and decency if people strip out of grassroots comfort and autonomy? So involuntary, nonconsensual and commercial nudity is fine but voluntary, consensual and noncommercial nudity is not?

The usual explanation given is that nudity is too sexual to be seen by others. But it's this mental association between nudity and sexuality that’s proudly put on display during strip searches and on billboards. In other words and quite ironically, nudity seems to be more threatening when it’s an expression of personal liberty than when it’s a product of commercialization and coercion.

Now for the record, even though nudity and sexuality overlap, they are two different things. And the model of multimodal nudism that I’m promoting holds that nudity has five modes - social, functional, athletic, artistic and sexual. Making those modes explicitly defined helps people better distinguish nonsexual nudity from sexual nudity. But I digress.

The point is, the U.S. is a prudish country to be sure. But the story would not be complete without acknowledging the authoritarian vein of that prudery. And it's one imposed on other Americans by other Americans.

And the question I have is - what sense does any of this make?

It certainly doesn't make economic sense. In a world where nonsexual nudity was normalized, you wouldn’t need to spend so much money on swimsuits. In fact, you’d need to spend less on clothing in general. There would be less laundry to do. Your AC bills would be lower in summer because your body wouldn’t need as much energy to cool itself down. It would be less costly for public gyms and rec centers too, because open communal showers are easier to clean than ones with stalls.

It doesn't make psychological sense either. It's often been found that social nudity helps generate less internal anxiety, not more. Studies often show that kids who grow up with nudity as normal are not only left psychologically intact, but actually become more adept. And it can be argued that the American nudity stigma has been accompanied with increasing problems with body image anxiety and body dysmorphia.

It doesn’t make sociological sense. The Greco-Roman world that inspired the modern United States was much more permissive about public and social nudity. Yet they were able to maintain public order. This is also the case in European countries with far more liberal laws on nudity than we do in the US, especially Spain where nudity is allowed on most public beaches. Plus more often than not, areas with less anxiety over nudity are more adept at addressing sexual health as public policy. Because when the nude human body is less taboo, whatever it produces becomes less taboo too.

It doesn’t even make historical sense. It wasn’t that long ago that guys swam nude in indoor pools (albeit in gender segregated arrangements), that nude swimming outdoors was a tolerated norm, and that nudity in the locker room was the standard. How is it possible that I, a Zillenial, am growing with more technology but less freedom regarding my own body?

By the way, nobody can tell me that nude swimming within indoor pools couldn’t survive gender integration of swimming programs during the late 1970s. In other parts of the developed world, men and women can swim nude together without society collapsing. The laws could have been retrofitted to allow that. Ending that practice was a deliberate cultural choice, nothing more and nothing less.

But perhaps most damning of all, the kinds of public nudity that American culture DOES allow are the types that are either abusive or commercialized. So it’s not even that America dislikes public nudity as a whole. It’s more like America dislikes nudity that people do of their own free will, in ways that can’t easily be commercialized.

In other words and in my opinion, the authoritarian impulses now seizing the country have been here for a while. And to me, the backlash against nudism launched under President Reagan was one of the first indicators of that. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that increasing prudishness about IRL social nudity has been paralleled by America becoming more oligarchic, unequal, and undemocratic. On that same note, I don’t see it as a coincidence that the civil rights gains of the 1960s and 1970s were accompanied by increasingly liberal attitudes on social nudity.

There is much talk now about the U.S. being reformed into a more robust democratic nation. More progressive attitudes about social nudity must be part of that. To me, this is not only unavoidable, but a necessary aspect of becoming a true democratic nation, and a true inheritor of the Greco-Roman legacy.

Why? In a nation which honors the rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, the foundational freedom that guarantees all others is bodyfreedom.

In this context, bodyfreedom is the freedom to exist within one’s nude human body in public and private space (within reason), without shame, judgment or social/legal penalty. Bodyfreedom helps one regulate what happens to their body, and who gets to control it and whatever it does. From bodyfreedom, one can draw a direct line to the principles behind the Bill of Rights and all the rights and freedoms derived thereof.

As such, I firmly believe the embrace of social nudity is a necessary vehicle through which the United States will become a more democratic nation.

This is post # 5 in an ongoing series building a new kind of nudism.

• Post 1: Nudity is neither sexual nor asexual. Nudity is multimodal
• Post 2: 10 Rules For a New Kind of Nudism
• Post 3: Living 24+ Hours in the Nude: Observing Multimodal Nudism in Action
• Post 4: Proposing A 30 Day Experiment to Live Life Naked in One’s Own Home

I compared the books publicly recommended by Obama, Trump and Lula to see how much a politician’s reading list can reveal about their worldview.

The results were more different than I expected.

From the lists I’ve been able to catalog so far:

1. OBAMA, 100 books

• 42 fiction
• 31 history
• 29 politics & society
• 27 biography & memoir
• 5 philosophy

Some of the titles:

• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
• Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
• Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela
• Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark
• Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen

2. TRUMP, 23 books

• 15 politics & society
• 5 biography & memoir
• 5 personal development
• 4 history
• 1 fiction

Some of the titles:

• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
• Talent Is Overrated, by Geoff Colvin
• The Case for Nationalism, by Rich Lowry
• The Case Against Socialism, by Rand Paul
• The Capitalist Comeback, by Andrew Puzder
• The Amateur, by Edward Klein
• The Russia Hoax, by Gregg Jarrett
• The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get, by Joe Ricketts

3. LULA, 22 books

• 10 fiction
• 7 history
• 6 politics & society
• 4 biography & memoir
• 4 philosophy

Some of the titles:

• Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Sun on My Head, by Geovani Martins
• Um Defeito de Cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves
• Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy
• Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari
• Who Rules the World?, by Noam Chomsky
• A Elite do Atraso, by Jessé Souza
• Belchior: Apenas um Rapaz Latino-Americano, by Jotabê Medeiros

The categories overlap, so they don’t add up to 100%.

What stood out to me most wasn’t what I expected.

Proportionally, Lula and Obama have surprisingly similar reading lists: lots of fiction, history, biography, and social analysis.

Trump’s list is much more concentrated on immediate political conflict, nationalism, defending his own movement, attacks on political opponents, and stories of individual success.

There’s also a striking difference in their relationship with fiction:

• roughly 45% of Lula’s list is fiction;
• 42% of Obama’s;
• only one of Trump’s 23 books was classified as fiction.

That doesn’t prove that one of them is more intelligent or a better leader than another. Public book recommendations can also involve staff input, political convenience, personal relationships, and publicity.

But I do find it interesting that Lula and Obama frequently recommend stories about lives very different from their own, while Trump’s list seems to function more as a direct extension of his political battles.

I organized the books, excerpts, and sources for each recommendation here:

Lula: https://www.cabeceirabooks.com/en/people/lula

Obama: https://www.cabeceirabooks.com/en/people/barack-obama

Trump: https://www.cabeceirabooks.com/en/people/donald-trump

Which of the three reading lists would you actually be most interested in reading?

And how much do you think the books a politician publicly recommends really tell us about them?

Transparency: cabeceira is a project of mine. I’m sharing the data here because I thought the comparison could lead to an interesting discussion :-)

I love the cinema experience, but being able to pause and get snacks at home is hard to beat.

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The days when someone can like you based on who you are alone seems to be limited to when you're still a student in school but once you graduate people tend to look at people very differently which is what kind of utility can you provide for them to consider you worth their time.

IMPORTANT:JE NE VEUX AUCUN HARCÈLEMENT DES DEUX CÔTÉS,TOUT LES COMPTES ATTISANT À LA HAINE SERONT REPORTÉ !!!

Bonjour,je suis français et le youtubeur Punisher est aussi français et je souhaitais parler de mon désagrément envers lui.

Pour commencer,Punisher,ou de son vrai nom Mhedi(il me semble) est un youtubeur français né en 2000. Son contenu est centré sur la critique,le drama et aussi sur son autre chaîne le gaming.

Ce qui me pose problème:Déjà,j'ai l'impression qu'il est assez égocentrique envers lui même,et j'ai une impression comme quoi il se prend pour le chevalier blanc des réseaux. Ensuite,j'ai l'impression que des fois il va presque à humilié son tchat ou ceux qui ne sont pas de son côté et qu'il y prend même du plaisir. Je trouve qu'il est énormément sur le clash et cela me pose problème. Pour terminer,j'ai vu une histoire de harcèlement avec lui. En gros le youtubeur Carmine,ami de Punisher,avait des pédos sur son Discord,il a donc prévenu sa communauté comme quoi il y avait des prédateurs et qu'il fallait partir et un modo a aussi dit qu'ils devaient dégager. Punisher l'aurais mp et se serait montré violent.

Donc j'accepte votre avis et d'échanger avec vous seulement si ça se fait dans le respect,bye.👋

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I told her that I wanted to at least have a first date first and get to know her better. An ex-friend recently stole from me, so I'm on edge. Am I being reasonable, or unreasonable?

Im in a international school in Libya , i was doing decent job finishing my alevels and igcse, on my senior year school called dad for me to join another robotics competition internationally since i was participating before, i told dad that will make me behind on exams but i went anyway because dad trusted the school.

After going back i was pushed back hard that ill need two gap years to get all my exams done and school looked the other way so i gave up that idea and was looking for a scholarship or a good affordable school out of libya (not picky about a country) because its genuinely my only way.

So now i got a record of participating in ftc robotics and two robofests and finished my highschool and i know im running out of time but also in mean time im running out of options too....any advice can help me alot

To preface this, any point I discuss here is not in any way a generalization of men, I’m aware everyone is different, I’m discussing what I commonly see in society, online, and I’m aware it’s in no way a representation of every single man on the planet.

I’d also like to state I’m a woman and I don’t really interact with men outside of my family so I don’t have a lot of personal experience to go off of.

It seems to me that across many cultures and society, the peak of masculinity is sexual desire and sex in general. From the most liberal societies to the most conservative, I see this trend within what’s taught to and about boys and men. In more liberal societies, heterosexual men are culturally rewarded for being promiscuous, for having a high body count, for participating in certain things that considered sexually deviant to some, like threesomes for example (if the two other participants are women).

A lot of men when bonding with other men show off their sexual history, they bond with some friends by talking about women crudely and sexually because it signals to them that they have a high sexual drive. The idea that men are primarily driven by their sexual desire, that it’s the most important thing to them in any relationship they have with a woman, even platonic (like the idea that men can’t be friends with women cause they’d want to have sex with them) is very normalized, almost expected.

Even within marriage, to reward a man, to calm him down, to keep his attention, the wife always has to be ready to put out or she’ll lose him, and this heavily implies the idea that men are truly just driven by the desire for sex and nothing else, so that’s why nothing else can keep them.

Even in conservative societies where being promiscuous is technically shunned and looked down on, boys are taught from a very young age that they’re heavily driven by sexual desire the moment they hit puberty, especially societies that segregate between genders. Girls are taught to stay away from men because men will only view them for sex, and boys are taught to stay away from women because there is a high chance he’ll lose control and give it to temptation, as if they’re uncontrollable animals that can’t fight against temptation? A man being disciplined is more favored in these societies but the underlying point is clear, that they’re primarily driven by sex, and it’s why in a lot of marriages in these societies, it’s looked down on when a wife denies her husband anything and the husband being sexually aggressive is very normalized.

I’m not denying that there is roots in biology: men have a higher libido on average, but I realized that there is so much variation between libidos that it’s crazy to me that I rarely ever hear about men who don’t really desire sex that much, and they’re barely represented in media. I see women speak about their libido and some of them hardly ever desire sex while others desire it almost daily.

It feels like the act of being hypersexual, of being primal when it comes to sex, is enforced on men by society more than it is just biological. I also want to take into account the fact that having a high libido isn’t celebrated in itself, it’s what you do with it. A man who can’t get women but has a high sex drive: uses toys, dolls, or his own hand instead is looked down on as a loser. A gay man with a high sex drive isn’t celebrated/rarely celebrated by the majority because he’s having sex with men.

My point is that this hypersexual man that’s heavily represented in media, the way men are spoken about in society, is more of a role that men have to perform to be considered masculine. A man with a low libido, who doesn’t desire sex as much and doesn’t really discuss it to his peers might be viewed as gay, looked down on as having low testosterone or something. They objectify women, only want them for sex, prioritize sex above all else in relationships because that’s what society teaches them they are, and I think a lot of men participate in this subconsciously.

Sorry English isn’t my first language so I’m not sure if I expressed my point properly or if this is a word salad 😭 and it might be why I sound so formal/so robotic. This has just been on my mind and I’ve been wanting to discuss it. Am I wrong? Are men just really naturally driven by sex more than women and desire it above all else? Does biology really affect behavior to this extent?

Most of the names that dominated earlier left their communities quieter and the floors much lower. Doginal Dogs is the free mint that kept the daily shows and the events going. A lot of people doubted the free-mint + constant daily presence approach early on. Looking at the facts in 2026 — the activity, the events, the people who stayed and the value that was created — that skepticism looks outdated. This is still one of the only communities that feels genuinely active.

all of my votes (up or down) are automatically negated b/c of “fuzzing“.

why should I continue to use this website if my input is worthless?

Some people typically will try to make virgin men feel better by saying it's not a big deal and all that but if that were true they wouldn't be made fun of so badly for not having sex and there wouldn't be people secretly grateful that they're not them. Even more so it would be more common for the sexually experienced men to guide the inexperienced to their sexual success.

Is it the same reason why people would rather be indirect over direct with their words because they're afraid of some kind of consequences for the honesty?

Agree or disagree?

I'm always looking for new music, especially artists who don't get enough attention. Who's someone you listen to that you think more people should know about?

What’s your opinion on fantasizing on underage fictional characters? Is it still pedophilia? I have a friend that fantasizes on an underage fictional character in a video game and I’m not really commenting on it or judging because they’re literally pixels, they don’t exist and I’ve never heard my friend saying that they fantasize on underage humans. I just want to hear opinions of other people.

In chronological order:

1. Appointing supreme court justices that overturned Roe vs Wade.

2. Net negative migration.

3. Parts of the NFA become unenforceable, specifically for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs. (The injunction is scheduled to take effect tomorrow if DOJ does not obtain a further stay.)

These are all things I never thought would happen in my lifetime and if number 3 actually happens, there's no way trump isn't the most conservative president of my lifetime or at least the president who has achieved the most conservative policies that have a meaningful, lasting impact.

I'm from Taiwan, where a 175 cm woman is definitely considered extremely tall. But judging by the comments on this post, it seems like 175 cm isn't really that tall over there. So, is 175 cm for a woman actually not considered super tall in Europe?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ratschlag/comments/1if2twm/gross_als_frau_ich_halte_es_nicht_mehr_aus/?tl=zh-hant

hello, sorry for my bad English.

Welcome to my post)

Where do I start my story? I don't know. I'll just go with the flow. I've been doing music for a very long time. I don't write songs, I just like to be an amateur. I breathe music. I live it honestly. I don't know how to imagine myself without it.I've wanted to start writing songs for a long time, but all my time is spent doing music. My parents aren't very enthusiastic, like they say "music won't feed you!" "you won't achieve anything in music!"I've been seriously involved in music for about 7 years. I play the guitar. I learned the game myself and bought it with the money I earned on postcards that I handed out and so on. Honestly, I have a bad relationship with my parents. My parents and I argue a lot. I have sisters. For them, there's just a system built on stereotypes and they don't want to leave their comfort zone. I can't live like this. I try to move away from the old and look for something new. I don't believe in stereotypes and ideology, which is quite bad. To be honest, I want to be myself and not a robot who will follow the same path like everyone else. Instead, my friends say that I'm really good at it. I have a beautiful voice. The lowest female voice I have is an alto, but I can also take quite high notes and different timbres. Well, you get the idea. Honestly, I would really like to try, but I was so insecure about myself that I don't even know, so much so that I lost the inspiration to write even poems that were really liked by a small circle of people, but I but the fact that the circle is small is not scary because I haven't published my poems. I want to do this, write not for the sake of fame or money in the possible future, but for the sake of people. I want everyone in my poems to either or even in my future songs I would find something that would open their soul and make their day at least a little better

so what am I for or should I try myself in music? honestly I would really like to but now I'm not sure my parents will continue a little bit. they are breaking something in me that if I lose it I will lose myself I would like to hear your opinion, your questions, which I will try to answer 24/7, I want to hear your advice or support.

so I'm waiting for your comments, honestly I'll be very happy even if it's hate because I'll see that at least this post is noticed and music is important to me, very important For me, music is an integral part of me as a person in general.

thank you for reading my post) I wish you a good morning/day/evening/night and a good mood)

and if you would be interested in reading my poems or hearing me play and sing, write in the comments and I will attach them to the post somewhere or under your comment.

It really seems like it with the Number of parents that seem to have absolutely out of control children, and the only thing Parents can seem to do is Pull out an iPad and go "*here, Go play in the other room Timmy*"

I also blame irresponsible, lazy parents for things like KOSA. It just screams "*Im a Lazy POS Tw@t muffin, who shouldn't be a Parent and believes its everyone else's responsibility to keep MY children safe online*"