I really can't believe so many people are so hung up about the human body. While I don't want to offend anyone by my own nakedness (although I don't know why I should) why are we taught that it is something that is shameful ?
Several hundred people paraded in front of the Opera House recently to get their photo taken and I can't believe the old chestnut about them all being perverts or exhibitionists. I don't recall any reports of sexual molestation.

People are curious about what they can't see in the same way some may like to see Molly Meldrome's bald pate. So the public always get some sort of titillation from what is not always on show. It must be a hangover from religious dogma where murder and slavery was sanctioned, but anything remotely related to anything sexual is forbidden.

Perhaps I am unconcerned about this sort of thing as I was raised in two English schools where we always swam naked, showered together naked and thought nothing of it. I have even made pocket money as an artist's model and spent time on nudist beaches. What's the big deal?

Well we will have to disagree on some points Cornflower. Regardless, I do think there is a football culture which in some ways is aided and abetted by the media both cashing in on the 'outrage' and the 'boys will be boys' attitudes. They are also not backward in besmirching the character of any of the women involved.

pelican,

I am OK by that. I am sure we are not heading for entirely different goals although the paths might be different. Having read it again, the last sentence of my previous post did not do justice to your position as I have understood it from this thread and previous ones.

Pynchme,
<<What is it that makes them feel uncomfortable? I wonder if any can articulate that.>>
I'll articulate it for you.
The vagina is for sexual relations.
The anus is for defecating.
The normal woman associates her vagina with sexual activity.
The normal man does not associate his anus with sexual activity.
He is repelled by the concept.
This is normal and natural.
The idea that some man is looking at him imagining that he would like to penetrate his anus is beyond repugnant.
If a woman would feel uncomfortable sharing a common shower with a male she is not sexually interested in, even though she has complementary sexual apparatus, how much more uncomfortable would a normal man feel sharing a shower with a man who wanted to stick it up his rectum.
Are you from a different planet or something?
<<wouldn't men who are sexually desirable to other men also hold all the power because they own the gateway>>
The anus is a faecal exit, not an entrance.
Either you are being deliberately obtuse, or you have surrendered your capacity to reason.
What is wrong with you people?
Having been approached on a number of occasions in my adolescence by degenerate homosexuals in public toilets, I think it is beyond time that this sort of behaviour is criminalised.
You morons act as if it's normal.

I think that Proxy's latest comment above is one of the best examples of blatant homophobia I've seen here. Personally, I think that people who espouse such hatred are far more of a problem to humanity than those who are homosexual - either in or out of the closet.

Mind you, I also find it entirely unsurprising that they are attracted to Antiseptic's paranoid view of human sexual diversity.

One of, for all that concerns when football is concerned, is HIV and other pathogens when body interactions takes place, and the man in question, understands this well with health as a priority with blood-sports as a commonsense absolution. Being gay is not the problem, its how you conduct your sex life, most are concerned.

TTM