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• At 22:56, 09 December 2009 Dave wrote:

  Hi LadyG

  I hear what you say about nudity but COME ON it's easy to promote public nudity when you have a stunningly perfect body! You walking down the street in the nude YES. Susan Boyle? NAH!

• At 06:38, 17 November 2009 Jeep wrote:

  Just saw the video of your time slot via our YNAI forum all the way over here in New Zealand. As a Kiwi naturist I am so proud of you for your attempt to get people to see the body for what it is, Just our natural selves and involved with but separate from sexuality. Must have been trying dealing with the local drunk yobs. keep up the good work and well done. maybe see you on http://ynai.com

• At 18:47, 15 November 2009 jo wrote:

  i've seen an article on a french naturist site and congratulate for this original way of nude life promotion !

• At 17:46, 04 November 2009 Ace wrote:

  Very cool, keep up the good work!

• At 23:25, 30 October 2009 cj wrote:

  Hey, hope you enjoyed your time on the plinth, was good to catch up on the last day although I was a bit busy, keep at it!! Do what you believe in!

• At 23:03, 24 October 2009 George Arndt wrote:

  Very Brave!

• At 21:37, 24 October 2009 david yemi wrote:

  adam and eve were made naked but because of sin they had to hide there body from god by covering with a leaf to hide there body ,ladygodiva u are true naturist u are 3 times a lady

• At 14:01, 20 October 2009 Craig wrote:

  I applaud Lady G for her bravery and her ability to deal with some pretty annoying people.

  I think that the only way naturism will ever be accepted is if people see enough of it often enough that they can get over the shock and start to think of it as normal. If right now, today, you see someone walking down the street nude, even a naturist will be surprised (although in a much better, positive manner than the average person), but if you see a number of naked people walking down the street each and every day, you will soon stop paying them much attention.

  I really hope that naturism can draw in more bright, intelligent, well-educated and well-spoken people who are passionate enough about it to go out and spread the word that being nude is perfectly natural and normal and that the human body in all it's varieties is a wonderful thing.

• At 20:09, 19 October 2009 Tiger1951 wrote:

  Thank you for having the courage to support your convictions. I would love to do what you have done because I am a nudist who lives the lifestyle, but here in the states there's no way to legally do it. Nudity is so frowned upon here. It's ridiculous.

  Also as a side note: You are very beautiful and very brave.

• At 15:06, 15 October 2009 Tim Leick wrote:

  I support you and your cause. I was so annoyed by the audio in this video. Because of the one pathetically annoying guy in the white shirt single handedly ruined your plinth hour. I ask, "Who the hell was on the ground controlling the microphone?" Obviously nobody. I had to mute the audio to finish watching. You are inspiring and I support you Lady Godiva, Good luck & take care, TIM

• At 12:34, 12 October 2009 Sir Nakedalot wrote:

  Thank you for having the courage to try to do something about society's ludicrous attitude to nudity. Our ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago would think we have lost the plot completely. Don't people realise that clothes were only invented to keep warm when it was cold, unfortunately they took on other meanings - to symbolize power, status, class, and subservience to religious dictats. What a better world we would have if everyone enjoyed naturism.

• At 21:32, 08 October 2009 Tim Andrews (Norton Folgate Week 6 - 6pm SAt) wrote:

  Brilliant - it was what my appearance was all about. l love being nude and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Well done.

• At 21:50, 05 October 2009 mikeofcardiff wrote:

  Well Charlene and Ellie that lays a gauntlet dwon. Any chance you can start patrolling beaches now and kicking the meerkats in the proverbial.Cheers mikeofcardiff@hotmail.com

• At 18:56, 05 October 2009 LadyGod1va wrote:

  Charlene and Ellie I LOVE YOU for being so kind.

  Please get in touch through email or http://ladygod1va.wordpress.com (also available as link on the Story Page)

• At 20:07, 04 October 2009 Stefan wrote:

  Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,

  To show to all the villagers her lovely bare white hide.

  The most observant man on Earth, an Engineer, of course,

  Was the only one to notice that Godiva rode a horse.

  We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers

  We can, we can, we can, we can , we can demolish 40 beers

  Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum all day, and come along with us

  'Cause we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us!

• At 15:21, 04 October 2009 Drifty wrote:

  You look of Asian descent, which, culturally, I associate with modesty, so all the more "good for you"!

• At 13:05, 03 October 2009 wrote:

  I am sorry, this is not naturism...

  Call whatever you want, but not naturism...

• At 22:28, 02 October 2009 Andrew wrote:

  A brave attempt to make a number of valid points, all of which she did make. The main problem was that most of the audience were pissed/stoned/high. At 5 am it goes with the territory.

• At 21:03, 02 October 2009 Charlene and Ellie wrote:

  Hi Lady G we are two nudistnaturist 32 yearolds from the normally chilly North of England (tho September has been very kind) and we have thought hard about what to write. Ellie won the toss of the coin so here she is with the silly stuff ( just as important as the serious stuff )

  Hi Lady G from Ellie, loved it all and we and both our husband / boyfirend and two bosses all said the boots were great and so especially was the arriving and departing naked and the men said -- we don't get this bit -- so was the standing right up with just a microphone. Anyway surely it was heartthumpingly scary and we hope you loved it xx

  Hi from Charlene, I always thought liberation would come but inch by inch but if you can do this in the middle of London advertised ahead then any of us girls / women can do it anywhere sensible - beaches, parks, woods, picnic places, back gardens, front gardens - then we are liberated as from now.

  We have followed your lead. We live in a quiet place but with beautiful open countryside and beaches and from your display onwards our morning and evening 3 mile run ( when the weather lets us ) is nude all the way. Made it 4 times so far, seeing 6 or 7 people each time . All have waved and smiled. Why have we been waiting so long to dare to do something so lovely for us and so it seems for everyone else ? Come on girls, lets go for it ! If we win (and now, with that big help from Lady G we will) then the men will be able to follow. 5 am Trafalgar Square was the turning point.

• At 01:16, 02 October 2009 Brian Taylor - PRO for British Naturism wrote:

  Well done Tiffany, you presented naturism and body freedom very well. You did well to arrive and leave naked as it avoids the 'striptease' element and serves to reinforce the normality of being in your natural state. As if that wasn't enough you then presented so many of the arguments that we at BN are trying to persuade society of, you must have done your research! You also dealt with the often biased questioning of your audience very patiently. Well done, if you are not already a member of BN we would like to invite you to join. I will email you.

• At 21:50, 01 October 2009 mikeofcardiff@hotmail.com wrote:

  Ok Boys, Girls and Tiff. I went to London to support Lady G and was one of the very few who did. I spoke at length with her Uncle during the show and with Lady G afterward. Lady G is a true commited naturist who feels passionatley that the lifestyle is mis understood and much maligned. As for the boots and rocking horse as I see it she took the original Lady Godiva as a theme and focus (it was meant to be art after all) LAdy G will explain the boots, I think you will find they were a safe refuge from total nudity. I don't believe there was any attempt to be sexy. The message was clear and there were no hidden agendas. The message is clear to me - why cant a body be seen as asexual. As I have stated below, elsewhere on this site and on her blog the UK is a very immature place to be a naturist. In most of Europe you can be naked in aooropriate places and not be harrassed by males seeking another agenda. The beaches of nude beaches of spain are a classic example where women and children always out number men. In the UK the male species sees a naked woman only as a sexual object. I am intrigued by what has generated this myopia. In frequenting the UK beaches you often see sicko men looking at naked women and trying to get themselves excited, they cant, the reason its a non sexual environment and they are not meant to. Grow UP UK please. mikeofcardiff

• At 20:50, 01 October 2009 agde wrote:

  Having worked in US media, I can see how Lady Godiva could have managed the "performance" better -- no boots, better "pre-arranged" audience questions, a few on the ground "spontaneously" joining in being nude -- but somehow I really liked the genuineness and her sincerity to make the point that a cloth-free body is just natural and not against the law. As to her being beautiful, which she is, it is really hard to hit mark exactly between attractive and unattractive, so that you don't get criticized for either being sexy or frumpish. You've only got the body you've got. Better to look your best, and then let your intelligence shine through, which she did. I, for one, got her message that nudity should be as acceptable as any other fashion option. Victorian fashion attitudes were successfully pilloried on the plinthe. Well done!

• At 17:27, 01 October 2009 OGC wrote:

  OGC

• At 13:03, 01 October 2009 Dr. Paul Rapoport wrote:

  Reading some of the comments here, I conclude again that naturists may be their own worst enemy. Too many make a fanciful black-and-white division between sexual and non-sexual and, like many non-naturists, decry anything they can imagine as sexual and forbidden.

  I'm surprised that some here didn't outright accuse the performer of a full hour of pony play.

  Jack M, the two things you describe don't seem really incompatible. Riding boots, Lady Godiva on a horse: kinky and sexual? Perhaps; but how was that supported by the rest of her performance? Or not?

  Thanks for your insight, seriously. At least you see various aspects.

  Sorry, no A4 here. I have some A3 for you, though . . .

• At 02:04, 01 October 2009 Dr. Paul Rapoport wrote:

  I'd like to make nudity on the plinth the topic of a major article in the magazine I edit, the 24-year-running Going Natural / Au naturel. I'd like to hear from Lady God1va, whose performance yesterday was a major event, even if it didn't seem to convince many at that early hour.

  Tiffany Oben, your performance was fantastic. I tried writing you but your website won't accept my message.

• At 01:35, 01 October 2009 Rachel wrote:

  If you really love your body as it is .. no shame at all ... then why do you shave your body hair off? Bodies are beautiful exactly as they are ... aren't they?

• At 23:42, 30 September 2009 RalphVa wrote:

  Love it, Lilac!

  The placards were great adverts for our cause.

  You did it right, not hiding behind anything, all the way through.

• At 22:42, 30 September 2009 watcher wrote:

  Nicely presented, well done! (Don't know how you stood the cold outdoors at that time though!)

  Sorry I could not keep my promise to watch at the time as I was away from home, but at least I was supporting the cause by staying naturist:

  http://naco.org.uk

• At 21:32, 30 September 2009 Jack_M wrote:

  Hmmm....this performance really has got me thinking. My initial reaction was that, although it was quite a different performance to the cheap and tacky topless show presented by Naomi_M on September 21st, Lady Godiva's decision to wear what the always delightful Mrs C referred to as 'kinky boots' and then to ride a rocking horse brought in an obvious sexual element that seemed to run counter to the claim often made by naturists that there is nothing inherently sexual about going naked. Lady Godiva's message and her medium thus seemed a bit incompatible. However, on second thoughts, I wonder if this just reflects an uneasiness about sexuality. Yes nakedness tends to be associated with sex and sexuality, even if that's just located in the way that some observers will gaze upon a naked body. But is that necessarily problematic or tacky? Does the tackiness or artistry not lie in how the plinther does or does not orient to the sexual possibilities of their nakedness? Answers on one side of A4 please...

• At 21:10, 30 September 2009 Lala wrote:

  Great masturbation material

• At 21:00, 30 September 2009 Mark C. wrote:

  Softcore pornography at it's best with the f*** me boots and horse riding. Sad. Pathetic. Ugly. And in very poor taste. At least be honest with your reasons. What was the point you were trying to make and how did you *successfully* achieve this? This was not a celebration of nudity, it was a "Look guys! See how sexy I am!" I'm offended on behalf of nudists everywhere. Shame on you!

• At 19:22, 30 September 2009 robert wrote:

  You look great. Healthy, happy, relaxed. A terrific particpant. Thank you.

• At 19:07, 30 September 2009 Dustin wrote:

  You get my vote for Minister of the Arts

• At 18:13, 30 September 2009 Bert wrote:

  In reply to tomasz: SHE is the one who claimed the body should be seen as non sexual, so ask her to explain it as it wasn't me who claimed it. She also claimed to be there to promote naturism. I'm pro naturism and pro nudity but her appearance on the plinth was nothig to do with naturism or support of it. She was there to be seen as sexy and lied about her reason for being on the plinth. Have you seen the photos she was sending around before her plinth appearance or the crap she spouted about it online? She was there to be found sexy but didn't have the courage to admit it and used naturism as a lie to cover it. She did nothing but harm to the cause of true naturists. She's an exhibitionist without the courage to admit it and to just do it honestly. If you think otherwise, you're deluded. Fortunately, many others aren't an saw her for what she is.

  As for your, 'no? Thought so...', you might at least wait for a reply and not put that at the end of your actual question before one even has the chance to reply

• At 15:42, 30 September 2009 tomasz. wrote:

  Bert, comment #1: "U r there to support naturism and the body is natural and not sexual. What a lie! Ur just there to be admired and found sexy"

  please explain what you consider to be the difference between these. for bonus credit, explain why "natural" and "sexual" are mutually exclusive.

  ...no? thought not. sling your hook, you coward.

• At 14:32, 30 September 2009 Mike in Malta wrote:

  Dismiss any undeserved negative criticisms as bigoted backlash.Today you stood up for what you believe in,and did it well.Three cheers for ladygod1va. Nudism rocks ! Yeah !

• At 13:36, 30 September 2009 Bert wrote:

  Who r u kidding? U r there to support naturism and the body is natural and not sexual. What a lie! Ur just there to be admired and found sexy, don't pretend it is anything else. U even posted pics intended to titlate & be admired. U fooled no one. Be nude but be more truthful.

• At 11:04, 30 September 2009 Tiffany Oben wrote:

  Well done in braving the cold and the bastard hecklers.

• At 10:12, 30 September 2009 Mrs C wrote:

  What can i say dear Lady G!

  Such a claim for nudity,

  And in the cold September morn

  What a chilly night you've borne.

  I've skinny dipped myself in Spain

  I like the freedom but it's plain

  Our British weather can be quite grim.

  Maybe that's we're all so prim?

  You're bold and very brave to bare

  Your body to the cold night air,

  But why the kinky boots my dear?

  Detracts from what you're trying to do - I fear!

• At 08:37, 30 September 2009 Mike Williams wrote:

  Hi Lady G I made it up to see you and how good it was. Good to chat afterwards too. I have only just realised that you also made your way to and from the plinth in true naturist style, and the rain stayed away until you had finished. Maybe a few converts and definately a better understanding of the issues. Speak later. Stay Naked Mike

• At 07:24, 30 September 2009 Mr. Wienerschnitzel from california wrote:

  I have three words for you!

  Sexy...Hot...Brave

• At 06:08, 30 September 2009 Roy wrote:

  Congtarulations on your appearence! Naked you came and naked you went which is more than the earlier ones have done. You put up with a load of heckling and a very low temperature for being naked. BTW I like the skin clour - I wish I was the male shade! NICE ONE!

• At 05:00, 30 September 2009 Lou wrote:

  If you want to celebrate naturism,why go on the plinth in knee-high boots, which are more commonly associated with prostitutes? I am fine with naturism, but seeing you on a rocking horse wearing knee-high boots just brings about negative connotations, it looks like some kind of porn. You are very pretty - Isn't that why you are going on there though?

• At 04:20, 30 September 2009 Rorschach wrote:

  Go Lady Godiva!! I like your thoughts. Come on people we all have bodies, and we're all naked at least once a day, in the shower for sure. Nothing wrong about having a body

• At 03:59, 30 September 2009 Simon M wrote:

  Am totally with you, Lady G. Wish I could've been there.

• At 03:35, 30 September 2009 commasutra wrote:

  ...wasn't there a Lady Godiva on the plinth last week??

• At 17:38, 24 September 2009 Mike Williams wrote:

  Hi LadyG thats a fantastic idea representing Naturism on the plinth. Its interesting what happened to Simon and being asked to dress but that did not seem to happen to Tiffany. So we need to ask the question, is it more acceptable for a woman to be naked than a man. Of course we know thats society will affirm this but not the law. The law supports beng naked. From my reading of Hollys notes it seems the the Met as a corporate body support nakeness but not individual officers who decide to mete out the law as they interpret it. I wonder did they really recieve a complaint about Simon or did the act "in the public interest" Will we get an answer to that one.. no!.Best of luck I will try to come up to support but its a 300 mile trip in the working week. Best of Luck Stay Naked! mikeofcardiff

• At 14:22, 15 September 2009 Tiffany wrote:

  did you type your email correctly? can't get through, mine is tiff_oben@yahoo.co.uk

• At 22:25, 06 September 2009 Tiffany Oben wrote:

  I was naked between 4 and 5 am at the beginning of September, it was cold then but i did not feel it until the nervousness of nudity was over and I was dressed. As you are up at the end of the month I recommend you take something warm with you just in case!!! Cold can be very cold!!!

• At 01:31, 05 September 2009 Ric wrote:

  I'm on nights that week not sure what shift but if I finish at Kings Cross at 5am I will saunter down!

  If others join you I will too!

• At 13:38, 04 September 2009 Roy wrote:

  I'm worried! Peeping Tom went blind watching Lady Godiva.

  Or was that self inflicted?

  Will that happen if I watch on the web?

  Should I wear dark glasses?

  Roy

• At 12:41, 01 September 2009 A_Scale_of_1_to_Other wrote:

  I'll be checking the temperature for you, I've got the same slot, but the day before. However, an overwhelming public vote is in favour of me keeping my pants on! Good luck.

• At 08:12, 01 September 2009 Naturist_Norm wrote:

  I intend to be there and give moral support. Good for you to bring nudity to the plinth.

• At 08:14, 23 August 2009 R_Tlover wrote:

  Will it not be a little cold at 5am in late September ?

• At 23:36, 20 August 2009 Bernard Boase wrote:

  Unlike Pete, I've only got to bike in from outer London, so I've little excuse for not being there. I've put it in the diary and hope that nothing prevents me or any of your other practical supporters from showing up. All the very best!

• At 18:46, 19 August 2009 Rupe wrote:

  Great news. We need more like you. Why are people so afraid of their own & other peoples bodies?

• At 19:48, 17 August 2009 Info 4 Nudists wrote:

  We are now supporting you on www.info4nudists.com

  Go for Gold, what a great thing your doing.

• At 21:54, 16 August 2009 Lilac Bonzai wrote:

  good luck poppet, i hope like your names sake that you enjoy your time.

  i decided to go nude during my spot for fun, to have a delightful anecdote and also because i wanted to be exquisite and never explain.

  i might have explained, but i was still exquisite. And the memory of being naked on the plinth, with some delightful Handel music on in the background with the delighted crowd shouting their approval as i raised my hands up to the sky will be treasured by me for years.

  i am sure you will be too, good luck with it.

• At 17:43, 14 August 2009 justanumber wrote:

  nice pic, probably the best seen so far, hope you do what you think is best, will be watching will inform my club

  http://www.eureka-naturist-club.co.uk/index.html

• At 19:19, 12 August 2009 museum rat wrote:

  100 % support it. For many Americans nudity is a sin and I just hope that we are not going to make the clocks going back to the dark ages.The human body is the most wonderful tool we have got. The skin is the best material we can get. Human beings should celebrate. The London WNBR (World Naked Bike Ride) is one of the most popular in the World so have no doubts that many Londoners share your views and Im looking forward to more naturist venues in London and the UK.

• At 14:21, 12 August 2009 Pete Knight wrote:

  5AM, that's the middle of the night!! OK I'll give it my best shot, might mean having to take a night train, I might even get some sleep on the train.

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