"It's just a body"

People who lay the nyuds on Twitter - about why they do it

Every week, hundreds of Twitter users publish their naked photographs under the hashtag #Nyuds -focus (and not only) - and are faced with a variety of reactions, from admiration to insults. Irina Shcherbakova’s special Corpsy spoke with people who post such photos about why they do it, how it helps them and how they relate to a bare body in social networks.

Asya, 21 years old, journalist

When I grew up, I did not have any information about the Nyuds, these sex are your body. In our family it was a taboo. Most of what I know about bodily and sex, I found out when I studied in my first year, from the blog of Tatyana Nikonova. But, of course, I did not become more open and bold at one point.

The first more or less frank photo-in a tight-fitting T-shirt and underpants-I laid out on Instagram. It was a kind of challenge, “slap in the face of social taste” - I’m joking, of course, but I really wanted to show my first guy that in half -naked photos there is nothing shameful.

The very practice of photographing and laying out the Nyuds is therapeutic. You learn to see your body from different angles, look at it - and the more you look, the more you get used to it.

Anna, 24 years old, manager in the insurance company

I try to wear long, baggy clothes. And the need to show that I am beautiful, is. I would gladly wear dresses with an open back on the street, with a neckline - but I'm scared. Recently, I walked along the street in a dress - and two guys began to yell as they would fuck me "into this huge frail." Last year, a man was pawed in the subway, who pretended to be sleeping.

On Twitter, showing your body is safer. Nobody will shout anything to you-and if someone says something wrong, you easily block him. You can dress up in a dress with a neckline, lay out and be glad that you could at least wear it somewhere. If people realized that there were nothing shameful in the body, there would be no situations when you could not go out in a T -shirt without a bra, because everyone - both women and men - look at your chest as if you saw your chest for the first time.

Victoria, 26 years old, designer in a bank

I began to realize and show my sexuality only at the university, a course on the third. Psychotherapy helped me - gave me the feeling that there is no longer any hypothetical adult who watches me and decides what is good and what is bad. The social networks played a large role in this. Thanks to them, I began to understand that I could be more liberated, and it became much easier for me to talk about sex.

My first Nyuds were intended for a young man. But I thought: why should someone alone see all this, because it turned out so cool. Objected. Then she sat and thought for a day: how to react to Hait if he is pouring? But the Nyuds police did not come for me, and nothing terrible happened. Yes, it was a little scary, but after the first positive reforms and likes, I received a powerful charge of positive emotions. The feeling that she showed what was, and no one bit for it.

Andrey, 34, developer, creator of the flash mob #SitnikFriday

When I began to post Nyuds, I ran into an ambiguous reaction. Male nudity was perceived as follows: if the body is not perfect, showing it is something disgusting. I myself thought so for some time, while my girlfriend then-now my wife-did not help me accept my sexuality. She supported, helped photograph, explained that everything actually depends on the angle.

Men do not know what to show what to focus on. And as a result - they send dicpics. After all, no one teaches a man, how to show himself, does not explain that a good nu photography-including an angle and light.

In a society in which I grew up, the male body was not perceived at all as something sexy. "Fu, hide." The only association was an exhibitionist in the park. Sexual, they say, should be your actions, achievements. This creates a huge tension: you stopped doing something important-and that’s all, you stopped being desirable. Although in fact this is completely wrong.

From the editorial office

The#Nyuds -Facillation campaign started in the Russian segment Twitter in the summer of 2020. She was launched in support of Julia Tsvetkova-artists and activists from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, against whom they started a criminal case of the spread of pornography due to drawings with the vulvs that she laid out on VKontakte. The public "monologues of the vagina" that she led was closed. In October 2021, the Khabarovsk Regional Court abolished the decision to close the Plug of Tsvetkova, but the proceedings in the criminal case against the activist were still being conducted.