You are either exhibitionist or voyeur

"I would aspire to be a soul singer..A singer becomes a soul singer when he decides to reveal rather than conceal."
-Bono
Keltic Ken and the saints at the Love Feast have been weighing the thesis that everyone defaults eventually to either a form of
voyuerism or exhibitionism.


By the way, don't read me as being obsexxed; or suggesting that implies the most obvious sexual versions of those tendencies (except in the sense that all of life is sexual) in most people.

And don't hear what I am not saying .
These habits ...when lived out sexually..are unhealthy and illegal.

Even though Rob Bell is right ("The House That Sex Built: Why let the Jews have all the good sex?!")that all of life is sexual...it's also true that it's never really about sex at all.

Don't you know any exhibitionists who "flash" their possessions or titles; for example?

Or someone who is overly eager to self-disclose information so they might express their love/receive acceptance ("If I show you my naked soul; you'll love me.")

Maybe visit Two Naked Pastors...

I had to google around to see if this connection had been made; a dangerous endeavor(:

I just caught this intriguing take on U2's "Lemon" in the Wikipedia article on the CD ("Zooropa") on which it appears:

"The song...documents man's futile attempts to preserve time through technology, as well as the importance of private voyeurism to a band living in a constant spotlight."
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Which could mean that anyone forced to live publicly and thus inevitably "on exhibition,"
must find sanity and balance through a healthy pre-voyeurism...even if it's "people watching" at the airport.

Of course Bono ..ever exhibitionistic...and once apparently (he would never do this now..?...and when he did it it was intended to be a prophetic act of sorts...not that any biblical prophets ever went naked..except, well..Isaiah 20:2 for starters) even a stripped on radio...

Q: I heard that Bono stripped in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
[MJS] This is true. From Newsday March 27, 1992:  At a dinner earlier

this week at London's celebrity haunt,

Nikita, Bono surprised his 18 dinner guests by removing all his clothes 

- including his black bikini briefs  - for

no apparent reason. During the Russian meal of mainly vodka and caviar,

we're told the Irish rocker sat naked

and acted as if being nude in a plush, crowded restaurant was the most

natural thing in the world. Which, in

some quarters, we suppose it is. "Sometimes people drink vodka and do

strange things," Nikita owner Sylvain

Borsi told us. But didn't he find Bono's behavior a bit eccentric, to say

the least? "No, he was very nice and very

civilized," Borsi said. "I think he just felt more comfortable with

nothing on."

   But he had a really good reason! From Newsday March 30, 1992 : His

spokesman says Bono was actually

being interviewed by a journalist during dinner when the Irish rocker

decided to undress, as we reported. "The

writer was so unimaginative, so frozen, so unloose that Bono thought it

would be a good idea to take his clothes off," the spokesman said. "And
there wasn't much of a reaction."
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Or:


June 25th 1987: U2 drop in to RTE for an interview. The band reveals the
background to The Joshua Tree,

and a lot more besides. “It was a hot summer,” Dave Fanning recalls,

“and it was very warm in the studio. I asked Bono some questions about

the music, and he was reluctant to answer. “We come in every year and

give the same answers to the same questions,” he said, “maybe we'd say

something different if we were naked.”

Meanwhile, the head of the radio department had brought his son in to

see U2 and walked into the studio to be confronted with five guys

sitting there stripped down to their boxers, drinking beer, chatting

away as if it was the most normal thing in the world.”


A Social History of U2 1976-2005 link

...has spoken a lot about these things , especially regarding his famous sunglasses"Self-Disclosure with Sunglasses On", and whether they/music/art are about revealing and/or concealing.

And most U2 fans are aware that one suggested title for the "Achtung Baby" was "Adam," who posed in bibilical Adam fashions (sans fig leaf) for a photo that did eventually appear (with a virtual figleaf of sorts ) among the album photos. Check this interviewer's take on Adam:

The much earlier period was (Adam's) engagement to Naomi Campbell. You know, rock star needs supermodel. I always feel it was a shame they met when he was off the rails. But the real Clayton is nurturing and polite, super-sensitive, and in many ways they were good together. The affair made him the celebrity he's always tried not to be, although I point out there was that time for the art work of Achtung Baby where he appeared naked to show the girls exactly what a supermodel gets. "Yes, but people still didn't recognise my face. I have always been a little shy of the camera." So obviously the way you deal with that is to appear naked? He laughs at his own contradictions, a lot more comfortable in his own skin these days.
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And this review of 2004's "Atomic Bomb":

Despite rumors to the contrary, this album does not return to anything U2 has done before. They have, however, put down the masks of Kierkegaardian deception after a decade of mocking the musical world and Western culture through cartoonish mega-tours and tongue-in-cheek media stunts. The passion and "the sound" that define U2 no longer hide behind alter-egos and flying Trabants. U2 is again naked to the world. Maybe that is why it hurts to listen to this album. You don't have to be religious to recognize the pain when Bono laments "I think of you and your holy book / While the rest of us choke / Tell me, tell me, what do you see? / Tell me, tell me, what's wrong with me?" in 'When I Look at the World.'
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