NAKED BEHIND THE WALL
November 17, 2009
by FELIX NICKLAS
Reunification, woohoo! About a week ago Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of this wall thing, with Bon Jovi and Domino Stones. But it just made my mind wander back to this epoch-old question: Why the fuck are East Germans really into undressing all the time? (And hey, since we’re mentioning nudity here, that’s a cue that if you still believe in Santa Claus you shouldn’t read any further.)
FKK, or Freikörperkultur, or liberal-body-culture was kind of insanely popular on one side of the concrete wall. I am from West Germany and I honestly don’t feel the need to hang around with dicks and cunts all out in the open on a frequent basis.
But I can kind of imagine what it must have been like in this country where everything from freedom of speech to traveling to taking a shit was observed and recorded by the Stasi secret Police. The people had been naked in the eyes of the state already. There was simply nothing else to hide.
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Judysickmusic: woah !
3 months ago
itsceegee: this is so random and humorous.
3 months ago
willyb: "I am from West Germany and I honestly don’t feel the need to hang around with dicks and cunts all out in the open on a frequent basis." Awesome.
3 months ago
waitwait: can you blame him? these are the people that have kept david hasselhoff rich the past decade.
3 months ago
LaserTag: their affinity for hasselhoff is perhaps even more puzzling than the nudity
3 months ago
itsceegee: haha!
3 months ago
augustiniak: Come on, Hasselhoff and public nudity obsessions go hand in hand. If you are going to like one you are most likely going to like the other. The man very rarely wears a shirt in his roles, and has no shame about it even though he probably should. He is an inspiration to Germans East and West.
3 months ago
sbay33: what i wouldn't do to hear that read by the german caterpillar in a bugs life
3 months ago
GPT: haha this is really funny
3 months ago