From: mkent@netcom.com (Marty Kent)
Subject: Nude-in at UC Berkeley, Tues 29 Sept
Followup-To: rec.nude
Summary: notes from the organizers of the event
Organization: Sixth Sense R & D
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:42:56 GMT


There've been a few postings about the "nude-in" on the UC Berkeley
campus last Tuesday (30 Sept). The event was not a protest, but was
more like a demonstration: an exhibition of a certain functionality.
Here's a couple of paragraphs from Debbie Moore, head of the X-plicit
Players, co-organizers of the event along with Andrew Martinez.  If you
want further information about the X-plicits, you can get in touch
with me; I'm one of 'em. 
		- Marty Kent


Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Deb:

I stood naked on Sproul Plaza, within a human-body-sculpture 
made up of the X-plicit Players, Andrew Martinez, and about 
twenty other nudes. I said through the microphone, "We are 
sensual! We feel warmed when you look at us! Come closer and 
touch us! We are freedom of speech! Come closer and paint us! 
We feel something erotic with each other! This erotic feeling 
is not against the law!" 

The crowd of about five hundred stood, feet planted, so many 
faces glowing with warmth, eyes bright and tender, while about 
five hundred others watched as they moved through the plaza. I 
directed the sculpture in forty minutes of intimate interplay 
with the crowd. People from the crowd stepped forward to paint 
us with day-glo body make-up; many hands covered my chest, 
finger-painted, and sponged-on color with gentleness. "Thank 
you", I said, "we trust you. We are touching as children, 
happy to be exposed to each other." 

I asked the naked people to move as closely together as 
possible, raise hands above heads and bring down hands, all 
touching each other everywhere. Then I asked the naked people 
to join hands in a circle and face outward to people in 
clothing, standing as close to those in clothing as possible. 
"You are making us safe with your watching. Stand vigil over 
us as we move through the crowd to get near you with our 
bodies", I said. The crowd had a responsible and strong 
feeling, and was visibly elated. 

As nudes held hands and moved through the clothed crowd I 
described how Berkeley Police have spoken with us often, and 
not arrested me and my mate, Nina, for living our daily lives 
topfree. "I was arrested last Wednesday, by a Christian woman 
pastor for crossing the street in front of school children 
topfree. Pastor Sipsey was pushing 'traditional family 
values'. But this human-body-sculpture we make is 'traditional 
family values'; this is how our family looks, this is how our 
values look. This is legal and we, the X-plicit Players, 
invite you to continue to perform "Love Actions" here on 
campus with us." 

We lingered naked on our "Freedom of Speech blanket" long 
after the nude-in ended, just holding each other, celebrating 
the warming after-glow of so much humanness, celebrating the 
feeling of being openly intimate on Sproul. 

NEWS UPDATE: The District Attorney dropped our case, verifying 
that no law is broken in being topfree. On Sunday, October 11, 
the X-plicit Players will hold a "Love Action": a TOPFREE 
MARCH, leaving Smokey Joe's Cafe at 11:00 a.m., going through 
downtown Berkeley to Telegraph, through campus to BART, then 
arriving at Adobe Bookshop, 3166 16th Street near Valencia at 
3:00 p.m. On November 14, the X-plicit Players will perform 
the X-plicit Act of Intimacy, at New College, 777 Valencia, in 
San Francisco at 5 p.m.
-- 
Marty Kent 				mkent@netcom.com
Sixth Sense R & D			510 548 9129
1914A Haste St.
Berkeley Ca 94704

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