I’m not a huge rugby league fanatic but like the other 2 Million plus viewers
I stayed up past 8pm to watch the 3rd State of Origin match between the Blues
and the Maroons last night.
Even
if you didn’t watch the match, you will know by now that Queensland ran in for
a try as a streaker was being man-handled by security staff in the dying
minutes of the game. That gave Queensland another set of six tackles and deprived
the Blues, according to sports commentators, the chance to head down the other
end to score.
Apparently
the same said streaker has some form. During the finals two years ago he stormed on to
Allianz Stadium during the sudden-death clash between the Wests Tigers and New
Zealand. It’s even rumored that the stunt was the result of a Facebook
challenge, which attracted thousands of amused people willing to chip in to pay
the fine.
Footy aside, and
if for a minute we set aside the notion streakers are usually encouraged by
some amount of alcohol, a bet, a challenge or a dare, peer pressure, perhaps
even breaking a taboo - why would anyone want to run through a packed stadium
stark naked?
Well opinion in
the 70's insisted that streaking was not exhibitionism. An article in the
British Medical Journal asserted, "streaking is the antithesis of flashing.
And there is no lingering to see the... look of dawning interest that the flasher
so vainly hopes his victim will show."
Running naked to
gain some attention is however a
form of egotistically showing oneself off and isn’t exhibitionism sexual in
some way. According to Freud, it's an infantile form of sexual
pleasure. You're being looked at and you're being given attention.
From the moment we're born we have a love of looking… a sexual curiosity, and
streaking satisfies that in a way.
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