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Subject: Re: naked butts


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Date Posted: 10:35:44 10/10/25 Fri
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In reply to: spelvin 's message, "naked butts" on 03:36:52 10/09/25 Thu

>Why is it so exciting to see another person’s naked
>bottom?
>According to best-selling writer Desmond Morris (2005:
>224), a female monkey’s rump becomes swollen when
>she is in heat.
>
>Today, the women of our species have rumps which stay
>the same throughout the calendar. But our inner brains
>might not know that. That may be the reason that
>people get all excited whenever someone’s gluteus
>maximus gets publicized.
>
>A critical reader of this forum might say, “Of
>course these degenerates like to see children’s
>rumps, but they're all perverts!”
>
>But the cult of the child’s unadorned tresero is
>more widespread than just this forum. If you remember
>the pre-hysteria days, you may remember that family
>photo albums abounded with pictures of babies’
>bottoms. When images of dorsal views of children got
>published, nobody was shocked.
>
>The comeliness of boys’ rumps never escaped the
>notice of teenage girl babysitters. Dave (2019, voy
>223876) had a babysitter who frequently patted him on
>the bottom and told him that he had a cute butt.
>Dennis (2019, voy 223876) had a teenage babysitter who
>said, “You boys have such cute little behinds.”
>
>A boy’s dorsal adorability could even serve as a
>conversation piece. Until Sam (2018, voy 223876) was
>12 years old, his mother would pull down his pants and
>his underpants to proudly show his rump to her friends.
>
>Bayley (1956) noted that children have proportionately
>larger and rounder rumps than adults. The well-known
>scientist Konrad Lorenz (1956, v. 1: 222-223) offered
>an explanation of why children evolved that way:
>they’re easy to carry that way.
>
>In France, it is customary for nurses giving
>penicillin shots to children to say, “Honey, you had
>a very cute bottom.” (jean the Frenchie 2020, voy
>223876)
>Admiring children’s bottoms may be normal, but does
>that mean it’s a good thing? That’s hard to say.
>It might comfort a child who is embarrassed about
>showing private body parts, but it might be insulting
>to a child who wants to appear grown-up rather than
>cute.
>
>When kid star Shirley Temple visited nursing homes,
>the elderly residents made such comments as “What a
>cute bottom!” She later wrote in her autobiography
>(Black 1988: 392 in hardback, 396 in paperback), “I
>would have preferred their attention on the front, but
>whatever made them happy was acceptable to me.”
>
>Speaking of Shirley Temple, her promoters have been
>criticized for showing so many shots of her rump. When
>she did a solo dance, they were sure to show some rear
>views. The current critics also notice that the backs
>of her dresses were often shorter than the fronts. To
>make sure that no one misses the point, “Curly
>Top” contains a rear shot of ST wearing a wet
>swimsuit which is just the right size for just the
>right contour.
>
>I wonder whether these sly manipulations were made out
>of consideration for normal adults or for perverts.
>Whichever the case, we should give them credit for
>flying blind, because Lorenz didn’t explain rumps as
>not sexy until 1956, Morris didn’t explain rumps as
>sexy until 2005, and “Curly Top” was released in
>1935.
>
>In 2000, a woman in Ravenna, OH got prosecuted for
>taking pictures of her 6-year-old daughter mooning her
>(Powell 2010: 290-291). I don’t know what was
>discussed in the trial, but the defense attorney
>should have argued Lorenz and the prosecuting attorney
>should have argued Morris.
>
>I do know that the case broke up the family and
>depleted their life savings. I hope the prosecutors
>were satisfied.
>
>Bayley, N. 1956. Individual patterns of development.
>Child Development 27: 45-74.
>
>Black, S. T. 1988. Child star: An autobiography. New
>York: McGraw-Hill.
>
>Lorenz, K. 1956. Interviewed in Tanner, J. M. &
>Inhelder, B., eds. Discussions on child development:
>The proceedings of the first meeting of the World
>Health Organization Study Group on the
>Psychobiological Development of the Child, Geneva,
>1953. New York: International Universities Press.
>
>Morris, D. 2005. The naked woman: A study of the
>female body. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
>
>Powell, L. 2010. Framing innocence: A mother’s
>photographs, a prosecutor’s zeal and a small
>town’s response. New York: New Press.

When I was still about two or three years old my sisters took a photo of me naked both laying down and also standing up facing the camera.

They would show those pictures to girlfriends I would bring over and they would say how cute I looked from both angles.

It wasn't a big deal back then.

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