I am all for nudity, but I care even more about trees and the state of our global environment. That is why the following story from India left me feeling conflicted. From Reuters:
Women in an eastern Indian forest are stripping naked to distract police and to help a criminal gang avoid arrest while illegally chopping down trees, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
Some of the women belong to a timber mafia in the heavily-forested state of Jharkhand while others are paid to strip in front of the police, who are too embarrassed to arrest them or too distracted to hunt the gang down, the daily said.
“It is proving tough to deal with these women,” Jharkhand forest official B.K. Singh said. “It has almost become a regular practice for them to strip.”
The story gets even more absurd when you read the headline of a similar article at Sify.com: Women terrorise Jharkand forest guards. Hmmm. I guess anyone can be a terrorist these days. Fear not though because Chief Wiggum and his posse have a solution: “But the guards are not stumped — they are planning to recruit women guards to deal with the problem.”
the ancient gauls fought naked (with some stylin’ body paint). they also sometimes got so excited they boned out in front of caesar’s legions. the legions thought it was pretty weird…but they kicked ass (partly because the gauls got drunk to instill courage and boldness).
LOL, Asterix with a boner !!!
What did you think a menhir was?
That’s hot. Female cop + nekkid female + handcuffs = TIMBERRRR. How’s a man supposed to get any forest-saving done?
The part that baffles me the most: “It has almost become a regular practice for them to strip.” So the ladies strip, the forests dwindle, and this happens over and over? That’s terrible.
SM readers can thank Neha for distracting me with the previous comment. I won’t be blogging anymore today.
if they really want to stop this all they have to do is get some out of shape uncles to apprehend them while naked. The thought of Uncle-Gut and body hair, not to mention the requisite aromas will be more than enough to get everyone dressed and back to normal
Silly Lovin, what makes you think the male section of the Timber Mafia doesn’t resemble the hairy uncle types? No, these are Timber Mafia ladies, they hang in the jungle. Ill scented hairy beasts are a dime a dozen.
I think some star power might be needed. Some sweet-smelling, bollywood hotbods who’ve been around the block a few times over. This will cause reverse distraction.
i doubt the male Timber mafiosos are cutting down trees nekkid. Think of where all the splinters could go, not to mention the oscillation of hairy body fat every time they swing at a tree…i’m already getting sick thinking about it.
Now another question i have is what clothes are these women wearing? If they’re wearing sari’s it would take them a considerable amount of time to strip…Do they know in advance when the cops are coming and get started before hand? Or is the thought of some aunti uncovering her fat rolls slowly and slyly that appealing to cops to wait the 10 minutes?
” If they’re wearing sari’s [sic] it would take them a considerable amount of time to strip…”
Actually, it’s just the opposite. Haven’t you ever undressed a woman in a sari? It takes seconds for those yards of fabric to unravel and slip right off (assuming she isn’t an ABCD like me and has safety pins holding onto those tucks and pleats).
I keep pulling and pulling, but it ain’t comin’ off!
I guess this is what they call an amBUSH? Or maybe I’ve just been reading too much porn lately.
: Haven’t you ever undressed a woman in a sari? It takes seconds for those yards of fabric to unravel and slip right off (assuming she isn’t an ABCD like me and has safety pins holding onto those tucks and pleats).
You’re assuming that:
a) Indian girls would hook up w/ me b) That I know how to get myself undressed (i’ve had my fly jammed at the WORST moment before)
c) That I have the patience to hold one end of the sari and run around in a circle to undress her, seeing as how that’s the only way I can conceive of it.
kudos to you though for dressing up like an ABCD in a sari. My wife fights the good fight and every once in a while she can get dressed in a sari and not have half of it dragging on the ground.
Guess the cops wouldn’t have had too much trouble finding “wood”…
Lovin, in response to (C), actually, you would just hold one end and she sort of spins round and round. The effect is very cool.
I only wear saris when I go out to formal functions, desi and non-desi. I think they are so beautiful.
You were left “feeling conflicted”?
Is that like eating too much dal and being left “feeling gaseated”?
Rani, technically, I don’t even think you have to go that far to get out of a sari. All you have to do really is untuck the sari from the petticoat, and it pretty much falls to the ground.
While I’m here, Lovin, what does “dressing up like an ABCD in a sari” mean, incidentally?
There are women stripping to save trees in the west.East is stripping to cut them.Swap the cultures and bring in some balance in nature.
Sounds like Weapons of Mass Distraction for the cops.
All you have to do really is untuck the sari from the petticoat, and it pretty much falls to the ground.
But in lovemaking, rarely does woman step back, drop sari and then jump back into embrace. Rather, she and raja stay wrapped like chapati & kabab and when sari hits floor, feet get tangled, petticoat becomes sneaky and someone screams “Mummy!”
I’m so embraced.
Brimful-
dressing like an ABCD in a sari means when you see a girl who’s trying to wear one but it’s slanted to the side or looks like someone is hanging a curtain off her hips. I’ve noticed this phenomenon more than I would like to
Rani,
I agree w/ you, there is something very classy about a nice sari that goes w/ any nice event/party/punction. Especially a black sari, i like black indian clothes on women.
A friend of mine did the whole “we’d rather go naked than wear fur” protest a few years ago in D.C. Unfortunately, her brown underwear-covered butt ended up on the front of the Times of India and her relatives were so horrified that she had to promise never to do that again. So I guess not ALL Indians are into stripping for a cause. 😉
God, what a classic horror story!! 😉
More has been discussed about the Sari and less about the Trees. I hope, better sense will prevail.