Would you pose naked for your beliefs?
Earlier this evening, I was Googling Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips, when I stumbled into her ad for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. In the mid-90s, Wilson posed for Todd Oldham, her body covered by fluorescent felt foliage above the headline “Turn Over a New Leaf—Don’t Wear Fur.” It’s certainly one of the tamer PETA ads; the ones from Eva Mendez and Joanna Krupa, in particular, are a lot steamier than Wilson’s.
Wilson and the PETA ads got me thinking. While the PETA advertisements relied on people’s voyeuristic tendencies to get their point across, there was a certain appropriateness to the whole ‘go naked instead of wearing fur’ concept. The University of the Philippines’ Alpha Phi Omega is known for its Oblation Run, which started in 1977 to protest the banning of Hubad na Bayani, a movie that depicted human rights abuses in the martial law era. Let’s face it, if you’re nude, you’ll certainly get a lot of attention.
Assuming the pictorial is conducted professionally and the direction of the material is tasteful – of course, tasteful is subjective – in its treatment and final product, would you pose naked for an issue or belief that is close to your heart?
