Although I really dont post here anymore at all, I feel I must give my own personal opinion as to the women revealing their breasts for beads...
Do you consider nude beaches evil? Everyone there is "revealing themselves", yet generally sexuality is the last thing on their minds. When was it determined that all types of nudity was bad? I could see that with the american media, one could believe that violence=good, but nudity=bad simply because at primetime (around 8pm) you can watch a tv movie on national television, and witness a person being killed execution (sp?) style (example: lastnight Con Air was on ABC durring primetime), but they are so quick to edit out a scene with nudity in it because they feel it may "damage" the minds of young children. Personally if I were a parent, I'd prefer my son looking at a pair of breasts than of a man getting his head blown off.
Back on topic... The whole point of Mardi Gras is to "get out all your sin" and prepair for lent, a time of peace. You're supposed to be able to do what you want, act how you please, and not be judged for it. Part of that may be people acting out their guilty pleasures, and if that includes being an exhibitionist, or voyeur, let them do thier thing, it's what mardi gras is about. Now, if it became an everyday thing, and they went home with new partners every night, maybe then you could pass judgment.
Bascily I see how you could make that judgment, and maybe you just had a more conservitive up bringing, but me, I was raised in Berkeley... and I never saw nudity as a bad thing, and that just because they're "revealing" themselves doesn't mean that they're gonna go line up a group of guys and have sex with all of them....
Alright, I've said my piece, back to lurker mode for me.
