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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:55:24 -0700 (PDT), Anna <...@lycos.com
Here's the comment page to do so.
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?incl=comments&id=1143997354&cid=349
http://tinyurl.com/6xhxg6
I am sure it was done unintentionally but in the article below the
writer used the world "nudist" when he meant scantly dressed or
sleazily dressed.
So please post to the comment page I provided the link to about and
gently explain how the word "nudist" was misused in the article below.
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1143997354&cid=349
http://tinyurl.com/59v7oy
udist generation leave little to imagination
Published on 20/10/2008
When Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity minister Nsamba Baturo recently
banned the wearing of miniskirts in Kampala, it was obvious that the
man had never been to Kenya. Baturo was alarmed that skimpily dressed
Kampala women were responsible for the rising cases of men driving
into roundabouts and street light posts.
By Peter Thatiah
Hemlines are getting higher.
Gone are the days when Kenyans knew commercial sex workers by the way
they dressed. In the last decade or so, and particularly in Nairobi, a
trend has emerged whereby the dominant dressing code has ensured that
the line between nudity and dressing is fast disappearing. Even
churches have not been spared and horrified pastors are busy raising
the alarm.
Last month, the pastor of Kisumu Pentecostal Church, Linus Ondiko,
paraded young women who had come dressed like nudists in a church
service. The pastor told Crazy Monday that the skimpily dressed women
always chose to sit at the front.
He would no longer countenance a dressing code designed by the devil
in hell, he warned.
Sylvester, a member of the church, says what alarmed the pastor was
that some of these women (both married and single) seated at the front
would deliberately part their legs when the sermon was in progress.
Anguish to the clergy
"The ladies especially targeted young and unmarried pastors by winking
at them and parting their poorly covered legs causing a lot of anguish
to the young clergymen," he says.
In Nairobi two weeks ago, members of the Neno Evangelism Centre found
a billboard warning that women with waist-high slits, miniskirts and
bikini-tight trousers were no longer welcome into the house of God.
A church official who did not wish to be named says that it had
reached a point where you could not tell the difference between the
twilight girls on Koinange Street and the said worshippers.
Welcome to the new Kenya where if you have it you flaunt it — whatever
it is. Just a decade ago the in-thing with trendy women was the tumbo-
cut T-shirt that left the midriff exposed up to the navel. Today
things are tending downwards, with a majority now lowering their
trousers strategically to expose the crotch. No one knows how much
lower it will go.
With the trend gaining currency everywhere and more so in churches,
many men today admit that the only reason they go to church is to view
the different shapes displayed by the nudists. In fact many will agree
that gone are the days when the discos provided the perfect meeting
place for all manners of couples. The place to be today is the church.
Birdwatching
Commercial sex workers nowadays are finding it difficult to devise new
ways to attract prospective customers because men can no longer tell
them apart from the rest of the crowd. [PHOTOS/Robert Gicheru and
file]
‘Brothers’ will call it bird watching, only that there are no birds in
the church. Many men are finding it curious that the nudists not only
want to show off the shapes and curves, but they are letting the men
have a short preview of the contents nowadays.
"This church (name withheld) has got hot babes," remarked a colleague
recently after a church service. Gone are the days when one went to
church for purely spiritual needs. It is rather a sensual feast.
Kevin, whom I found on a street seat along Kenyatta Avenue, says
whenever he gets a minute to spare from his office across the street
he heads straight for the seat.
He is one of the many Nairobi men who are taking advantage of the
state of affairs to get what he calls free entertainment or ogling
sessions. With most slits nowadays showing whole freckled thighs
complete with stretch marks, Kevin says he is not short of ‘birds’ to
watch.
He says: "The trouser wearers are especially a treat to watch. They
let you view even their G-strings by lowering the trousers so that a
part of the bottom is also visible leaving little to the imagination.
From here I can watch anything from the small fist-sized bottoms to
the huge ones that can’t even fit in an office chair, all free of
charge."
Gone too are the days when sexual affairs were sacrosanct issues
guarded by social taboos. The display of a million versions of
complete female anatomy is leaving in its wake a sinful trail. The
message is clear: Sex has been removed from the bedroom to the street.
And the daring dress code seems to be accompanied by greater sexual
permissiveness. Although statistics are hard to come by, there is
evidence to suggest greater sexuality among the youth, the HIV/Aids
scourge notwithstanding.
Condoms
A member of a church in the city says that the overnight prayers of
his church, usually called kesha, have been scrapped after the church
administration found 25 used condoms in the compound. Even sleepy
villages in the countryside that have been guarded by rigid traditions
from time immemorial have not been spared by the sinful generation
either.
Ken, who works in the city, says he was shocked when he visited his
village on the slopes of Mount Kenya and counted 10 discarded condoms
between the bus stop and his home.
Sex workers
Commercial sex workers nowadays are finding it difficult to devise new
ways to attract prospective customers because men can no longer tell
them apart from the rest of the crowd. Also, haloing their eyes with
mascara, applying lipstick that went past their natural lip lines and
wearing brightly coloured Whitney wigs used to be their preserve. Not
any more.
Emily, who dresses in provocative attire that shows every curve of her
anatomy in the office, becomes edgy when I raise the subject, pointing
out that it is nobody’s business but hers. Her colleague, Gladys, says
she wears provocatively only when she wants to hook a man to take her
out for a weekend. She says: "Showing as much as possible makes me
feel more lovable."
Displaying too much
But Nick says displaying too much leaves nothing more to be desired.
He adds: "The only positive thing about this nudism now common in town
is that the women are teaching us not to take life so seriously. Given
the hard economic times, it is good for them to distract us." But even
as the trouser goes lower and the miniskirt’s hemline higher, many
women speaking to Crazy Monday say they don’t show chunks of their
private anatomy to attract men.
Whether this is true or not, observation in the street even to a
casual observer tells a totally different story. The reason young
women would want to show chunks of their bottoms and whole thighs to
African males on the street is easy to get by the response the trend
is attracting. But Jane says it is her right to dress how she likes
and the men can choose not to look.
And as the sexual revolution gathers pace, no place is being spared
the nudist exhibition. Only the men have been left behind, perhaps
because they don’t have much to exhibit.
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Again, I am sure it was unintentional on his part, but still we need
to stick up for the word Nudist whenever its misused.
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