The nudity isn't for salacious reasons. My understanding is that the product being advertised is a watch, which is particularly useful for those times in your life when you don't have a pocket for your phone...
Posted to emphasize the incredible gulf between European and American attitudes about nudity. This ad ran on commercial television in Iceland. Via.
Jogging nude with breasts looks painful.
ReplyDeleteIncredible indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt's a play on words, the word úr means watch (as in wrist watch) but allir úr also means "everyone take your clothes off".
ReplyDeleteThis seems like an by-product of the public swimming pool culture in Iceland, where everyone walks around nude in the sex-segregated locker rooms. Icelanders are used to seeing all body types, all ages. It's refreshingly liberating.
ReplyDeleteGet's your attention but not salacious. Many of us in the west have really strange views on nudity.
ReplyDeleteIn Dutch, there's a concept - often used in the movie world - called 'functional nudity'. Now while the movie industry uses it as a euphemism for letting people run around naked for very sexual reason indeed, the concept resonates throughout society. As long as there is a proper function for nudity - for instance while changing clothes - it's not sex and hence not offensive. Makes a lot of sense to me.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the idea seems to be receding a little as the whole country seems to be getting a bit more prudish. Don't know why. It's a loss.
Nudity is normal. We're born that way, and we're all nude at least once if not more often a day. I've never understood why a male chest is acceptable but a female one isn't.
We can see all kinds of violence, but not nudity. We in the US have got things so backwards.
ReplyDelete"we're all nude at least once if not more often a day" What? Man, I've been isolating way too long.
ReplyDeleteNot really related, but this was the most appropriate recent post to leave this link - I saw this and thought you'd like it. https://www.jungborn.de/die-wurst-kabeltrommel-gut-kampen-545648/
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you intended it not to be related...
DeleteDanke.
I've always said I wanted to be buried naked and go out the same way I came in to the world. Most people are horrified by the idea...
ReplyDeleteit is refreshing to see people of different ages in that video - it gives one an idea of what to expect.
ReplyDeleteI-)