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Reader Feedback on "Crack Addiction: The Gentle Art of Mooning"
Hi
I'm an Australian lawyer and have a case on in court where my client is charged with "indecent behaviour" for having mooned a police car after midnight outside the Midnight Owl on the beach esplanade at Cooloongatta.
Thank you for your article. I shall use it in court at the hearing.
My defences are:
1)it is my client's constitutional right to free speech to moon, it being a mild political protest at a symbol of government authority, and
2) community standards would not consider a moon in these circumstances to be indecent or obscene, rather would treat it as the silly joke that it was intended.
Do you have any other cases you could refer me to from USA or otherwise.
Thank you
Eugene O'Sullivan
O'Sullivans Law Firm
Wooloowin Qld Australia
seesour websire at "www.osullivans-lawfirm.com"
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12/03 |
Why is showing one's buttocks called "mooning"?
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Hebrew yod-resh-khaf-heh Ya:RKHaH or
Talmudic Hebrew Y'Ra:KHaH means hinder part, rear;
uttermost parts, remote regions
The word for moon, yod-resh-het YaRa:aX, has a
very similar sound and therefore its translation
is being used as a euphemism for buttocks in this
expression.
Israel "izzy" Cohen
izzy_cohen@bmc.com
--iac
11/27 |
I want to point out that "mooning" is by no means "almost exclusively a masculine act". Read the "Embarrassing Moments" segments, of magazines for teenage girls, and websites for highschool graduating classes, or look up "mooning" on the Internet, and you will find that mooning by females is common indeed. About 25% of all mooning in the U. S. is now done by females. One out of six girls graduating from U. S. highschools in recent years, has mooned in public at least once, during her highschool years. By contrast one in three boys recently graduating from U. S. highschools has mooned at least once in public during his highschool years. The claim that mooning is harmless ignores the fact that some teenagers moon habitually indicating psychological exhibitionism. Further, mooning a person of the opposite sex is far more harmful than mooning a person of the same sex. Most societies have condemned mooning as immoral, even when done at a member of the same sex.
--J S
09/17 |
Perhaps Judith Levine betrays her age when she describes mooning as an (adolescent) male activity almost exclusively. In my experience (I have three daughters ranging in age from 10 to 37), it has been mostly women who moon. Years ago, I led wilderness trips for a private high school. A feature of homecoming, year after year, was for the girls on the bus to moon drivers -- several dozen adolescent FEMALE butts -- on the last stretch of highway before the school. Each year, we'd try to suppress the ritual, or we'd sanction it after the fact, but tradition seemed too strong. Each year another gaggle of girls would gaily moon the commuters. Across cultures, most of the references I've seen to mooning describe it as a female act of contempt (though Maori warriors used to do it in the run-up to battle). Anyhoo, fault found, "Crack Addiction" is a great essay. Moon on!
--NB
02/24 |
In your article about mooning, you write: "I say HE because the quick, and often collective, butt-flash is almost exclusively a masculine act, and a heterosexual one at that." I will contest this assertion with the following tale. Traveling east on Amtrak, somewhere between Salt Lake and Denver, the tracks follow a river quite closely. In June of 1986, the river was clogged with rafts of active men and women enjoying the great outdoors. The train was mooned collectively by all aboard each raft. This was apparently such a routine event that the conductor had a suave comment primed and ready about how the moon shines brightly on the river in summer. Those were men and women mooning the train en masse . . .
--CH
02/20 |
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