Since our Romanian mass-media (well, the 'education' department from Gandul) are launching a great moral offensive against nudity (public or academic nudity, to be exact), here's some interesting material on nudity and (great) inspiration. Victor Hugo, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Benjamin Franklin, Agatha Christie etc: pick your favourite (writer, not nude...). Now, it is most likely true that none of these people posted their nude photos in public places, but, had they had their weblogs, they might have been tempted to (after all, some of them were not that shy in their writings...). I do not believe there would have been any negative externalities on the rest of their contemporaneous societies (needless to say, in some cases much more puritan than the Romanian one today, save for certain persons such as Mrs. Vergu, the author of the article linked above, redundant article which seems nonetheless to have had quite some effect- again in Romanian), while the current society would still judge them based on their literary abilities. Instead of scrutinizing the webpages and all other linked online resources of Romanian academics for nude photos & the like, our journalists should rather focus on pointing out the lack of any scientific content in many (most) of our academics' backgrounds (I am very afraid, however, that most of these 'reporters' would not qualify for such a task, hence the quest for the nude photos...). Given the situation of the research/education/science in general, in Romania, I would say that, in terms of hiring/promoting/maintaining academic personnel/university staff, nudists with brains are highly preferable to square-toeds without. For the rest, paternalism and out-of-place moral indignation for a journalist that used to have better periods (creativity crisis, most likely).
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