Half-Naked or Half-Clothed?
Have you ever noticed in the news you always see the term “Semi-Nude” or “Half-Naked”? I noticed the terms popping up time after time on Google & Yahoo news feeds. It’s also common on TV & Radio news as well as newspapers. You could always imagine someone wearing the left or right side of their clothes. I suppose that would be a useful way to measure the degree of nakedness.
What about wearing only a thong or teeny little yellow polka-dot bikini? Would the person be 99% naked? No, that would be considered normal by the warped perspective of the gymnophobes.
A trip to South Beach will reveal hundreds of women wearing four square inches of cloth, with bare breasts, and they’re considered appropriately dressed. But if someone walks out the door of their hotel on that same beach in their underwear, they’d be labeled “Half-Naked”.
This implies that our natural state is clothed and the removal of that clothing is the abberation. Wouldn’t the correct terminology be “Half-Clothed”? We are born naked, therefore a person’s natural state is nude, and clothes are added to that nudity.
See below for a sample of news articles since January 1st.
Men arrested for half-naked woman’s body
LHC moved against police for parading youth half naked
Drunken, half-naked Ukrainian falls from moving truck
Woman leads police on a naked chase
A semi-naked woman was handcuffed and arrested by police
Naked wife attacks husband
A naked woman was found by police beating up her husband in a van, then ran off wearing just a coat
Woman found injured in Salem park
A woman was found half-naked at Woodmansee Park
Half-naked man seen at Huntington fast-food window
Beckham jeans boss and his girlfriend, 22, tied up half-naked in …
