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Swimsuit 2014: Cook Islands
Kate Upton
Beach/Rarotonga, Cook Islands, New Zealand
10/29/2013
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Credit: James Macari

What is it about the need to be nude?  Is there some primal survival residual in people’s genes akin to dogs circling their beds that needs to be satisfied? We know that nude beaches have been around forever and there are certain subsets of ethnic populations that seem predisposed to communal nudity, but the need to be nude seems to be hitting the mainstream stride.  As pleasant as a small minority of people are to be viewed au naturel, that doesn’t apply to most; especially those who are most likely to be nude.  This is why Kate Upton is paid big money to model things and 99% of other people, not.

It’s not as if people can’t satisfy their prurient and voyeuristic curiosities via almost any type of media.  Historically, access to nude images has never  been as ubiquitous as now, probably even in the repressive Muslim countries.  So it seems that the real need is the desire to be nude in public.  The proliferation of restaurants world wide now catering to this ‘need’ is growing and may soon move beyond curiosity stage if there’s enough money in it.  London announced such a place a year ago and since then, it’s been the hottest dining ticket.  You could say it’s the new place to see and be seen.

The new Japanese venue is even more snobby as the article shows.  Not just anyone can get in; they must conform to certain standards of weight.  Ironically, customers have to be thin enough to qualify to eat food. At some level, I get that; who wants to try and eat food if Michael Moore is directly in eye line.  In the restaurant’s defence, it’s not necessarily discrimination, it could be just pragmatic business.  If you are surrounded by Jabba The Hut models, you are unlikely to order the five course tasting menu.  On the other hand, if the restaurant only accepted skinny people with small appetites, they’d likely sell less food.

But we suspect that it’s not the food that’s the draw; most come for the view.