Nudity, I might say, is part of being human.
If you are a woman, you have to strip naked in front of your gynecologist for an internal examination. If you are a man, the same way with your urologist. You turn on the TV and women with bare breasts and or romping couples show up during primetime till midnight. In summertime, showing a lot of skin is just as common as sipping your cold bubbly soda.
As an expat with Asian ethniticity, nudity in the western world is more accepted than, say, Asia and the Middle East. After five years (and counting) of living in Vienna my eyes (and my sanity) has become sensitised seeing naked men and women, or everything that pertains to sex, be it on the street, the magazines, on TV, in films, or in books. They have become normal occurrences. Like seeing smooching couples waiting for the bus.
I still remember the worried face of my former publisher after he noticed Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” on my desk. He asked for my age (I was 24 then) and later told me that the book was “only for adults.” Even my choice of reading habit (still loving Anais Nin and erotica) was questioned by some ex-colleagues. One of them was ecstatic after she saw “Last Tango in Paris” on video.
Three years later imagine my great surprise when I tuned in to Vox and saw Lilo Wanders’ show “Wahre Liebe” for the first time. I know I sound like a prudish loser but lo and behold, it is a fact. And as they say fact is stranger than fiction.
So for those of you who patronise the Öffis and, once in a while, get a hold of and read Heute unconsciously, it is a common scenery that on its page 3 or 5 a naked woman or a man often appears. (Which I heard follows the tradition of Kronen Zeitung.)
So yeah, liberal ideas and open-mindedness versus prudery and hypocrisy.
That’s why people like Mag. Johannes Unosson, the founder and instigator of Weniger Nacker.at: Bitte entfernen Sie die erotischen Bilder, has become “somewhat” a sensation and a novelty.
As a Swedish and now a Viennese by choice, he thinks that these “bilder” pollute the children’s minds just by looking at them accidentally. And Heute, as a gratis tabloid, read by multitudes of people using the public transport system, should be responsible.

Reading the list of people who signed up, ergo, agreed on his proposal, I can’t help noticing the number of members of the church and women and women’s orgs. Are we beginning to see the wish to go back to naivety????
Exploitation? Small-time prostitution? Violation of women? These words suddenly mixed up with freedom to choose and being a responsible parent. The tabloid’s publication of naked people is about pure consumerism. And everyone knows that. Sex sells.
As a parent, I can understand his concerns. But you see there is a connection between responsible children and responsible parents. If you don’t want your children to be exposed to worldly pleasures,which is impossible, talk to them and be consequential. I have this opinion that the kids will have a better understanding of sex when the parents don’t hold back information. It doesn’t have to be vulgar of course. The danger lies when the kids will learn it from the outside sources because at home no one is permitted to talk about sex. It is the same environment I’ve grown accustomed with.
Some overdo it by setting too much freedom, without limits. One way or another one has to find the balance. Too idealistic? I don’t think so.
I am a woman and, honestly, I find it amusing. The pictures of naked women who have been published certainly have an idea that posing nude will catapult them to stardom. Is there something like a forced prostitution taking place? I don’t know. It doesn’t offend me, for all I care.
As a person with the right to choose, read, or think, I laugh at his suggestion. He can censor his children’s reading choices but he cannot force the adults to follow his way. He has the choice not to read it. More so, he doesn’t have to bring it at home.
Take it or leave it.