and, by corollary, the encounter with, between or as nude bodies is to be
considered the root of such effects. Only when the erotic breaks free from its
sexual classications, regimentations and codes is it recognized the erotic
By admitting this, nakedness under the gaze may continue to be innocuous, yet
Gazing at a bathing child can be pleasurable
Likewise
with gazing in the communal shower-space -- and t
here are erotic dimensions to
this joy by virtue of the continuous citation and processes of sexual subjec-
tive performativity. Under this schema, however, such gazing is to be seen as
harmless enjoyment, in contrast to the regimented ideas of western sexuality that,
inappropriate, harmless and harmful, natural and obscene classes. This schema
Confesses sexuality and all sorts of practices of nude display and gazing, but breaks
the link between nakedness and present denitions and understandings of sexu-
ality.
Where this already happens is one of the celebratory and transgressive descen-
dants of the Woodstock festival, such as the Burning Man festival of setup
United States Labor Day weekend -- a website that can be described as a temporary
Sovereign zone operating not outside but at the margins of the dictates of
dominant societal ideologies. Attended by numerous visitors, including families
community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance' in which
'[n]udity, iconoclastic art, sexuality, impolite language, cultural commentary, and
Unusual behaviour are all a part of the crucial Burning Man encounter' (Burning
Man, 2001a). The site motivates naked displays as art or nude frolicking through
the spaces, both protected from contemporary prohibition by virtue of its desert
Framework.
Avenue' and 'Sex Drive'. But it's more than only expire sex as genital copula-
tion, and embraces the instability of sex as signier.
energy swirling and whirling about' as if it's a chaotic force that pervades all
Components of the weekend, and the preparation advice on its site makes perma-
Be respectful. Simply because folks are walking around naked doesn't necessarily mean they
Want *you* were naked in a small enclosed space with them.
and don't be frightened to use the 'n' word yourself. (Burning Man, 2001b)
By all reports, Burning Man is highly erotically charged -- a celebration of the
The Naked Subject
with representational artwork and with the desert environment. As the manufacturers place
it, 'Make love to the playa, and she'll love you back.
the stars, and the omnipresent dust' (Burning Man, 2001b).
of
https://shop.hahanoshizuku.jp/shop/display_cart?return_url=http://nudism.name -gure can perhaps be read as the burning and dislodgement of
contemporary and patriarchal codes of bodies and their proper deportment,
At precisely the same time, it truly is an acknowledgement of
Hardscrabble ideas of community which dispense with the individual body and
Reveal how the body is erotically materialized 'in accord' with its environmental
and other-corporeal encircles. Although Burning Man and its ever present nudity
and lusty charge work within a contextual frame -- spaced by Black Rock,
Nevada; timed by the Labor Day weekend -- it is representative of manners in which
we can believe and gaze at nakedness otherwise. By re-thinking sexuality away
from the genitals, the genitals are both de-sexualized and the remainder of the
Space from the codes that have qualified it as obscene without having to
Turn the charge of obscenity. Nakedness in the showers, the locker-room, the
Bathtub, in family photographs, the fkk camp and in dialogue can in this manner
be thought of as neither sexual and always sexual -- and believing in this way is to
Blow off culturally expire signications of sexuality and to tolerate nakedness,

subjectivity, the materialized body and culture as nude to the sexual as subjec-
tivity itself