{"id":188,"date":"2005-12-05T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2005-12-05T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T00:30:00","slug":"question-for-the-rocky-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Question for the Rocky People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just added a bunch of Rocky people to my friends list&#8211; certainly not all of my friends from Rocky, but a start.  So here&#8217;s a question that I&#8217;ve been pondering for all the Rocky&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky parties are great hives of debauchery, with plenty of drinking, drugs, and some intimate contact.  And a little public nudity, but not so much.  In fact, I&#8217;ve noticed a real hesitancy from people to be fully unclothed at parties, and it seems so at odds with the stated norms of the group that I have to ask: am I missing something?<\/p>\n<p>I think that most people, even some of the solidly gay ones, would agree that naked women are nicer to look at than naked men.  Most men just look a little silly naked.  But some guy has gotten publicly naked at the majority of the Rocky parties I&#8217;ve attended, while women almost never do.  Sometimes that guy has been me, and the comments I get usually aren&#8217;t compliments (Variations on &#8220;Wow you&#8217;re hairy.&#8221; are most common), but people seem to appreciate that someone has gotten naked anyway.  Wouldn&#8217;t naked women be even better?  What&#8217;s discouraging them?<\/p>\n<p>I understand that a lot of Rocky people are pretty young, and maybe haven&#8217;t come to terms with their bodies, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the issue&#8211; public nudity is just outside the culture in a way that surprises me.  I happen to think that most people are more beautiful naked than in even the most becoming outfits, although I could understand people thinking otherwise.  Is it that you&#8217;re concerned about being objectified or misunderstood if you get naked to quickly?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also surprised at this because it seems more conservative that what I&#8217;m used to at MIT.  At least in the groups that I frequent, when we have a play sex games (which admittedly isn&#8217;t often), sooner or later we&#8217;re all playing the game naked.  And when we call shirtless&#8217;o&#8217;clock, it means topless&#8217;o&#8217;clock, and bras go too.  Are MIT students just more sexually liberated then Rocky people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just added a bunch of Rocky people to my friends list&#8211; certainly not all of my friends from Rocky, but a start. So here&#8217;s a question that I&#8217;ve been pondering for all the Rocky&#8217;s. Rocky parties are great hives of debauchery, with plenty of drinking, drugs, and some intimate contact. And a little public &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Question for the Rocky People<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}