Protests - Part 82

Portland Emergency World Naked Bike Ride

Normally, World Naked Bike Rides (WNBRs) are held in various cities to remind drivers to drive safely around bicycles and to encourage people to ride bikes instead of driving cars.

But organizers in Portland, Oregon, called for an "emergency" WNBR on October 12, 2025 to protest two things: (1) Donald Trump's decision to send the National Guard to Portland (note the rider's message above "Fuck Don-Old") ...

and (2) the activities of ICE in Portland (see another rider's message above).

The forecast called for rain, so some riders came prepared.

And the ride began.

Like other WNBRs, not everyone rode a bike, and not everyone was naked (it's "as bare as you dare").  These two guys ran the course with another anti-ICE message.

Here's a frontal view of the same two guys.

And here's a rear view, as it started to rain.

More protesters ("Fuck ICE").

The ride led to ICE headquarters in Portland.

We end with a couple of riders who are wearing face masks like ICE.  I read speculation based on pictures like this that ICE had infiltrated the WNBR.  Believe me, these guys are mocking ICE.  ICE agents would not appear naked in public.

In the end, the National Guard was not sent to Portland.  It was opposed as a totally unnecessary political stunt by the Mayor, the Governor, and both Senators from Oregon.  A U.S. District Judge barred the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, and after the Supreme Court declined to overturn a similar judge's ban in Chicago, Trump announced the removal of federal troops from numerous cities, including Portland.  So the National Guard was not sent there.

Ivy League Posture Photos - Part 61

Ivy League Posture Photos

Yale started taking nude photos of incoming freshmen in 1919 as part of a program to detect and correct posture problems.  The Yale photos have erroneously been associated with William Sheldon, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Nazi-like eugenic theories who used Harvard nude posture photos to illustrate his theory of somatypes.  The Yale program predates Sheldon, and, as far as I can tell, the Yale photos were never connected to Sheldon's work.

Here are posture photos of ten more Yale students that I had the opportunity to acquire.

This is Yale freshman Charles H. King, Jr. on October 16, 1953.

In 1952, Yale installed an apparatus using mirrors to photograph the front, rear, side and top view.

This is Yale freshman Edward Hahn Cook on October 12, 1953.

Note the strange pins stuck to each student's back and chest.

This is Yale freshman E. B. on March 14, 1949.

The pins were stuck on at specific points for later posture analysis.

This is Yale freshman Jean Francis Ross on October 21, 1949.

Photos taken before 1952 show only a side view.

This is Yale freshman Robert Armstrong Antonovich on October 17, 1949.

Supposedly, by examining the angles formed by connecting the points where the pins touched the body, certain posture problems could be detected.

This is Yale freshman Thomas Freeman Graves on January 20, 1949.

If posture problems were detected, the student had to attend remedial posture sessions, and a second posture photo was taken.

This is Yale freshman George Ervin Lamb on January 12, 1951.

The photography and analysis of the photos was conducted by the staff of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

This is Yale freshman James Pinckney Harrison on March 6, 1951.

Nobody outside the gymnasium staff saw the photos.

This is Yale freshman Richard Hyde Hiers on February 1, 1951.

The photos were not published for other students to see.

This is Yale freshman Robert Dunn Haws on February 1, 1951.

The posture photo program was discontinued in the 1960s, and later, most of the photos were burned.  However, some of the photos escaped burning, including the photos that I have been showing in this series.

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Note: some of my followers consider these photos an invasion of privacy for the students.  To protect the privacy of the students, I redact the names of students who may still be alive.  I only publish the names of students who have died.  Legally, the right to privacy does not extend beyond death, i.e. it does not extend to spouses and relatives of the deceased person.

I consider these photos to be a historical record of the time.  Almost all of the Ivy League posture photos were burned when their existence became widely known.  In my opinion, that was akin to book-burning of books that someone claimed were obscene.  These photos are not obscene.  They should be celebrated, not hidden away.

Bodybuilders - Part 34

Alberto Bistocchi 

Alberto Bistocchi is an Italian bodybuilder, currently about 63 years old.  He continued to enter bodybuilding competitions at least into his fifties, proving that not only the young can have fit bodies.  Above, Alberto posing in the IFBB Pro Master Mr. Olympia contest in 2012.

Alberto has also posed with less clothing.

Here he poses sideways.  What's that sticking up?

Well, he knows how to take care of that.

Ads - Part 80

 Shape-It Weight Loss Patch

This is a commercial for a weight loss patch from the German company Shape-It.  What the connection is between the naked young man and a weight loss patch is not explained.  I think the reason for including him in the ad was to attract women, the target audience for the product.

The video was posted online in 2014, so the commercial aired in or before that year.

Weight loss patches are adhesive patches that are stuck on the skin and transfer medical ingredients through the skin.  In the U.S., no weight loss patches have been approved by the FDA.  There is a lack of evidence that they work, and some of their ingredients may cause side effects like headaches or rashes.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Shape-It company seems to have gone out of business – their website no longer exists.  But they gave us a nice commercial to look at.

Hiking - Part 81

 Putney Mountain, Vermont

This is another naked hike by Jim Bornholdt, whom we have seen before.  A few years ago, after a cancer diagnosis, Jim decided to embrace the idea of naked hiking, which he had done a few times before.  For him, shedding his clothes was symbolic of shedding fears and negative baggage.  He calls it "forest bathing", and he relishes the freedom of going into and out of the sunshine and feeling the forest energy across his skin.

He lives in Connecticut, but he found that public nudity is legal in Vermont (as long as you don't engage in "lewd and lascivious conduct"), and Vermont has many wonderful hiking trails, so he began hiking the Vermont trails naked and publishing photos of his hikes on his blog called Baring It All in the Woods.

Today we see Jim's hike to the summit of Putney Mountain on May 2, 2024, which was his first hike of that year.  As always, Jim posts a "naked hiker on the trail" sign at the beginning of the trail to warn people, which you can see taped to the board behind him.  And as always, people he met on the trail had no problem with his nudity.

Here he is at the start of the Ridgeline Trail, which goes up to the summit.  It's a short loop trail and is rated "easy".  You can see that many of the trees were still bare.  Spring had not quite come to the mountains in Vermont.

On the short hike up to the summit, Jim met an older woman who was friendly.

The temperature at the summit was in the high 60s.  In the background you can see a trail runner who passed Jim.  Jim said "Hello" to him, but the runner kept running.

There are nice views from the summit.  Jim also met two more ladies there and exchanged pleasantries.

Part of the trail back down.

And here's Jim back at the trailhead next to the parking lot.  Another successful naked hike.

Events - Part 82

Mardi Gras

Today is Mardi Gras.  In New Orleans, in addition to the parades and parties, there's a tradition that people gather on the wrought-iron balconies in certain places on Bourbon Street with a supply of beaded necklaces ...

And down below in the street, guys flash their dicks (and girls flash their boobs) ...

And the flasher is rewarded with a necklace thrown down from above.

It's a very religious holiday.  I think it commemorates when Jesus entered Jerusalem and flashed his dick, but I'm not very religious, so I could be wrong.

You can tell how many times guys have flashed by how many necklaces they're wearing.

This appears to be a flashing virgin.

But he probably won't be a virgin for very long.

We end with a unique flashing posture.  It's all very religious.  Happy Mardi Gras!

Presidents Day 2026

 Presidents Day

Today is Presidents Day, when normally we would honor U.S. presidents.  We do not honor our current president, who has dishonored everything he has touched, but we can document how he is viewed.

Joshua Monroe made five copies of this statue, above, to be displayed in five cities.  The plaque at the base says the sculpture is titled "The Emperor Has No Balls."

An onlooker commenting on the size.

And a closeup shows that indeed he has a micro-penis and no balls.

The policy of the New York City Parks Department.

This painting of Trump by Illma Gore also shows a micro-penis and no balls.

This 43-foot-tall marionette in Las Vegas was named "Crooked and Obscene."

This sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiot was exhibited at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil in November 2025.  It shows a naked Trump riding a small, frail man and holding a golf club about to whack a small sphere which is the Earth.  The conference was about fighting global warming, including trying to phase out fossil fuels.  For the first time in the conference's history, the U.S., under Trump, boycotted it.

We end with a T-shirt design by Danger Rabbit.  Another depiction that shows what the population thinks of him.