The elites’ war on nudity

How modern day prurience connects to the Leftists’ hatred of you

RUSSELL DAVID

When I were a lad – in the 1970s – naked women were everywhere. I don’t mean literally in the flesh (except when we took summer holidays to continental beaches), I mean images of them could be seen on a near-daily basis.

Naughty magazines in newsagents had nipples on the cover, and often weren’t on the top shelf. Tabloids, including even the loathsome Daily Mirror, had flesh on page 3 and others (including front pages occasionally). Paperbacks like What Rugby Jokes Did Next and Confessions Of… had scantily clad women on their covers. Coastal resorts in particular were stacked with items like pens that you turned upside down to get the lady’s clothes to slide off. I had a beermat with a nipple on it.

Most pubs seemed to have a Big D nuts display, where bags would be removed to reveal a little bit more of the half-naked model beneath. It might have been written into law that every garage you went into had to have a topless calendar on the wall.

9pm TV watershed? Nah, not really. I didn’t see it (damn!) but a friend told me he was watching ITV one afternoon and they had some documentary about local theatre, and it featured a completely naked woman strolling across the stage. In 1986 I did catch an episode of Artists And Models on BBC2 at 6pm on a Saturday night with full-frontal female nudity (artistic nudity, natch).

Comedian Benny Hill, besides his thing for stockings and suspenders, would sometimes feature topless scenes on his shows which usually went out at 8pm. Frankie Howerd’s Confessions had Linda Thorson in a see-through negligee. The Olympian Way was a BBC1 drama set in a health club that went out around 7.30pm in 1981 and featured oodles of nudity. Noel Edmonds greeted a model sporting a topless dress on his early evening magazine show The Time Of Your Life in 1984.

Many films aimed at youngsters, like The Beastmaster, Clash Of The Titans, Saturn 3 and Sheena, featured boobs – and were rated A or, from 1982, the equivalent PG. (Nowadays films aimed at children, such as superhero franchises like Guardians Of The Galaxy and X-Men, have foul language instead. Which doesn’t strike me as welcome, or progress.)

Yep, female nudity was hard to escape in the UK in the 1970s and early 1980s. Now? It’s gone underground – if you define underground as the internet. It’s not on the main channels of free-to-air telly before 9pm, and it’s rarely on view as you go about your daily business. But it’s on some pretty grim websites in a much more extreme form that teens easily access. This also seems to me less healthy than the old days.

And what does this have to do with politics? I’ll tell you. First, a little history.

The 1970s was the country taking its clothes off and living, or at least showing it more, in part thanks to mass media and better technology. A more liberated nation got its kit off to be honest, the (chiefly male-led) institutions distributing this content to allow men, many of whom worked tough, physical jobs, to see something they liked seeing, ie unclothed women, more regularly.

The mid 1980s saw the rise of political correctness, and thus some tapering of ‘exploiting women’ (a stupid phrase that robs women of their personal agency). The mid 1990s saw a moderate rebuttal to PC. Was that the sweet spot?

For several years in the ’90s and ’00s I worked on lads’ mags, including the best-seller. We had our battles with censorious prudes but it wasn’t until after I left the arena that feminists and Leftists ramped up their campaigns, and found success.

Around 2010, top shelf mags were increasingly being put in bags in newsagents so the covers couldn’t be seen. They had already long since disappeared from WH Smith.

The way of these things is that once the campaigners get a victory, they don’t stop – in fact it spurs them on to tackle the next summit (the trans lunacy came along the minute same-sex marriage was put on the statute books). And so they came for the non-porn men’s mags, like Nuts, Zoo and Loaded. In 2013 pious retailer Co-op let it be known that they would now have to be in ‘modesty bags’ (horrible term).

As it was, men’s mags were about to be slain by the internet and smartphones, but the scalds got plenty of kicks in first.

Labour MP Clare Short had long been campaigning against Page 3 and by 2015, when she’d been joined by another ugly and bitter woman, Caroline Lucas, and others, they cheered when The Sun nixed the page. It was quite chaotic the way it happened: a Times reporter broke the story about the change, it ceased for a day, then it resumed a day later with The Sun saying that Page 3’s demise had been exaggerated – and then it never saw the light of day again. The Daily Star continued for another few years until the pressure became too much, Camp Of The Saints style. Cowardice.

Campaign groups like No More Page 3, and those who supported them, were full of the sort of people who’d go on to holler about BLM, trans, ‘Covidiots’ and Palestine in years to come: a mix of Leftists, those hoodwinked by Leftists, and the perpetually offended and outraged. I echo Alan Partridge: “I hate these people!”

Feminists have a good deal in common with socialists (many are socialists): envy, loathing, censoriousness, the desire to smash tradition, the desire to control people, the belief that human nature can be changed. (I’m talking about third and fourth wave feminists, not the saner first and second waves.)

Look at the Online Safety Act, how it’s targeted porn websites, ostensibly to stop children seeing them, but conveniently causing a huge drop in adults accessing such sites. This is exactly as they wanted. Just as our Lefty elite want to ban ban ban anything they don’t like us doing – gambling, smoking, vaping, buying pizzas, buying sweets, buying tumble driers, using petrol, uttering unpleasant epithets and a million other things – they want to stop men looking at naked women. It comes from the same puritanical, control-freak, elite way of thinking – which always comes with a big lump of hypocrisy.

The Marxists preach their oppressed/oppressor narrative, with the ‘patriarchy’ singled out. So why not smash the patriarchy by stopping a little of its fun. As Basil Fawlty muttered when Sybil forbade him from gambling, “No, that particular avenue of pleasure has been closed off…”

See how they got rid of Formula 1 grid girls and darts walk-on girls at the start of 2018. It’s a war against beauty. Orwell’s 1984 has been a manual for the way the ‘cuddly’ authoritarians have run the world for the last decade or so, and when I read it for the third time recently, I realised that it’s all there: there can be no beauty, because that’s being individual and meritorious, there can only be plainness and conformity. There’s no differentiation between the sexes.

Feminist campaigners across Europe have for years been trying to ban holiday postcards with nakedness on them. Left-wing politicians in Majorca tried to ban ‘sexual souvenirs’.

It’s always the same types of people – and, tragically, they wield great power. When you see the photo of who runs UK communications regulator Ofcom – a group of women who will have been university educated where they signed up to every ‘progressive’ notion there is – it becomes clearer.

ITV4 showed 1978 war film Force 10 From Navarone last Saturday night and chose to excise the brief sequence featuring Barbara Bach topless, while keeping in men being machine-gunned to death in close up, being blown to bits by grenades and stabbing each other with knives. Think how bizarre that is. Think what a message that sends out about how screwed up our society is, when you’re censoring the unclothed human form rather than violence.

I doubt that casual, harmless nudity will be making a return to the mainstream anytime soon. Certainly as Britain becomes more and more Islamified over future decades it will become ever more unlikely, probably with the force of law behind it. (This in itself exposes the falsity and hypocrisy of Islam, because the men behind it obviously have sexual feelings, yet forbid them on a wider scale.)

What a sick joke that all I chronicle above has happened over decades where British women and girls have been made much less safe because of the massive influx of males from foreign lands where they look on females as little better than cattle. Talk about focusing on the wrong thing: banning Page 3 while allowing the industrial-scale rape of white working class girls by Pakistani men.

But then the 21st century has seen a special form of madness previously unknown in human history.

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