Mooning

Mooning
Jello Biafra moons the crowd during his keynote speech at the Hackers on Planet Earth Number Six conference.

Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not. Mooning is used mostly in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or provocation but can also simply be done for shock value or fun.

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Word history

Moon has been a common shape-metaphor for the buttocks in English since 1743, and the verb to moon has meant 'to expose to (moon)light' since 1601.[citation needed] As documented by McLaren, "'mooning', or exposing one's ass to shame an enemy [...] had a long pedigree in peasant culture" throughout the Middle Ages, and in many nations.[1] Formerly, "mooning" was slang for "wandering idly" and "romantically pining."[2]

In Chilean Spanish, the act of mooning is known as cara pálida, lit. "Paleface".

Legal status

The legal position of mooning varies between jurisdictions, from indecent exposure to legal self-expression. Some example cases include:

Zimbabwe

Two brothers of Zimbabwean descent were charged and jailed for indecent exposure in 2006, for wearing traditional African loinclothes which leave the buttocks exposed.[3] Whilst not strictly mooning, it illustrates the legal view on mooning in that country. The BBC reports that whilst this "reignited" a debate, "not many people in the capital are on their side".

Senegal

Patrick Devine, 19, from County Donegal, Ireland was arrested on 27 July 2007 for allegedly dropping his trousers as a dare in Saint Louis in Senegal. Devine, a student of Queens University Belfast, spent one month in jail for his alleged actions.[4]

Greece

A 2003 case saw two British tourists convicted and fined €920 each on indecent exposure charges.[5]

Students at Stanford University conduct a "mass-mooning" in May 1995. This demonstration was in protest of censorship in the American media.

United States

In 2006, a Maryland state circuit court determined that mooning is a form of artistic expression protected by the United States constitutional right of freedom of speech.[6][7] The court ruled that indecent exposure only relates to exposure of the genitals, adding that even though mooning was a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act to engage in, and had in addition taken place in the presence of a minor, "If exposure of half of the buttocks constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty."

Defense attorneys had cited a 1983 case of a woman who was arrested after protesting in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building wearing nothing but a cardboard sign that covered the front of her body. In that case, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had ruled that indecent exposure is limited to a person's genitalia. No review of the case by a higher court took place since prosecutors dropped the case after the ruling.

In California, an appellate court found in 2000 that mooning does not constitute indecent exposure (and, therefore, does not subject the defendant to sex offender registration laws) unless it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the conduct was sexually motivated.[8]

Notable incidents of mooning

  • In 80, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in 66 AD, at around the beginning of the First Roman–Jewish War, a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims on their way to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, causing a riot, an over-response by the Roman military, and the deaths of thousands of pilgrims.[9][10]
  • In the Siege of Constantinople in 1204, the Greeks exposed their bare buttocks to the Crusaders after they repulsed them from the walls.[11][12]
  • During the Battle of Crécy in 1346 when king Edward III of England took Caen, on the way to Crécy, several hundred Norman soldiers "exposed their backsides to the English archers and many of them paid a high price for doing so."[13][14]
  • The Etchemin tribe of Maine were noted for this custom by a number of early explorers of the Atlantic coastline.[15]
  • On November 22, 1987, an intruder interrupted the broadcast signal of Chicago PBS affiliate, WTTW with a strange video of himself dressed to resemble Max Headroom. At one point in the video, the man exposes his buttocks to the camera before being spanked with a flyswatter by an accomplice.[16]
  • Pauly Shore first mooned on film in Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) as his character, Buzz, tricks a mall guard into leaving his booth.[17][18]
  • In June 2000, a mass mooning event was organised outside of Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom by the Movement Against the Monarchy (M'AM). The idea was for anti-monarchists to show their dislike of the British monarchy by performing a mass mooning at their home. However, a large police presence prevented a large scale mooning, but even so, a few individuals mooned (although there were many more who turned up to the event but were put off mooning by the large police presence). Some of them were arrested, but others managed to pose for various newspapers, etc. This event is known as the Moon Against the Monarchy event.[19]
  • The Annual Mooning of Amtrak is a long-running annual tradition in Laguna Niguel, (Orange County) California, United States, where many people spend all day mooning at Amtrak trains;[20] some even ride the trains on that day just so they can witness the event. This mooning has spawned a chain of "train moonings" throughout the entire country.[21] On July 13, 2008, local authorities cracked down on the practice after a reported 8,000 people participated in the festivities.[22][23]. However, the festival still continues annually, albeit more police supervision.[24]
  • In the 2003 World Athletics Final in Monaco, Tim Lobinger mooned the crowd on the podium after winning the pole vault. He faced a $5,000 US dollar fine from his winnings by the IAAF for the stunt.[25]
  • At the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame awards ceremony, musician Ozzy Osbourne mooned the crowd after a set he played with his group Black Sabbath.[26]
  • English Premiership footballer Joey Barton was fined £2,000 for mooning Everton fans.[27]
  • A tradition of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers Mooning the Cog has developed on Mount Washington in New Hampshire.[28]
  • On January 9, 2005, Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings pretended to moon Green Bay Packers fans following a touchdown he scored. He was fined $10,000 by the NFL for the incident.[29]
  • At the Patch Adams Full Moon Festival three-day event to raise money for his Gesundheit Institute! and Albuquerque, 200,000 people pay $100 each to moon as a group and lend a hand with local projects. Adams quote: "Bring your butts."[30] In 2001, Dr. Adams and the UCSD student body president both mooned the audience at that year's UC commencement ceremony.[31][32][33]
  • On the 24th of October, 2011, economic inequality protester Liam Warriner of Sydney ran alongside the motorcade of Queen Elizabeth II and a waving Prince Phillip for 50 metres with an Australian flag clenched between his exposed buttocks, before being accosted by police.[34]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Moon". The Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=moon&searchmode=term. Retrieved 2007-02-03. 
  3. ^ Vickers, Steve (February 2, 2006). "Zimbabwe furore over loincloths". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4673510.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  4. ^ "End of ordeal for Donegal Mooner". Irish Independent. August 29, 2007. http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/end-of-ordeal-for-donegal-mooner-1068141.html. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  5. ^ "British pair convicted for mooning in Greece". The Independent (London) (Bnet). August 27, 2003. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030827/ai_n12708294. Retrieved 2008-09-01. [dead link]
  6. ^ Londoño, Ernesto (January 4, 2006). "Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but No Crime in Md.". Washington Post (The Washington Post Company): pp. B01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301509.html. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  7. ^ "Judge rules 'mooning' is not illegal in Md.". The News Journal, redistributed from the Associated Press. January 6, 2006. pp. B6. 
  8. ^ "In re Dallas W. (2000) 85 Cal. App. 4th 937 [102 Cal.Rptr.2d 493"]. http://law.justia.com/cases/california/caapp4th/85/937.html. 
  9. ^ Bloom, James J. (2010). The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135: A Military Analysis. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0786444793. http://books.google.com/books?id=AEOiDBTXya8C&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  10. ^ Josephus, Flavius (80); Whiston, William, translator (1737). "The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Book II, Chapter 12". sacred-texts.com. Evinity Publishing Inc.. http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-2.htm. 
  11. ^ Queller, Donald E.; Thomas F. Madden, Alfred J. Andrea (2000). The Fourth Crusade. p. 178. ISBN 9780812217131. "As the ships pulled away from the shore the Greeks on the walls hooted and jeered at the defeated attackers. Some of them let down their clouts and showed their bare buttocks in derision to the fleeing foe." 
  12. ^ Tenzer Feldman, Ruth (2008). The Fall of Constantinople. Connecticut: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-0822559184. http://books.google.com/books?id=-Ngv27cosOgC&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  13. ^ "Battle of Crécy". California Archery. 2002. http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/crecy.htm. Retrieved February 4, 2006. 
  14. ^ Jarymowycz, Roman Johann (2007). Cavalry from Hoof to Track. Praeger. p. 46. ISBN 978-0275987268. http://books.google.com/books?id=nQDBUgwGae4C&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-09-05. 
  15. ^ Axtell, James (1992). Beyond 1492:Encounters in Colonial North America. USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 189. ISBN 0195080335. http://books.google.com/books?ei=K9FlTtf9DtHUiALM_6yfCg&ct=result&id=WyHIPVn_gkAC&q=buttocks#search_anchor. 
  16. ^ Bellows, Alan (November 19, 2007). "Remember, Remember the 22nd of November". Damn Interesting. Retrieved on 2011-09-05.
  17. ^ Wedell, Katie (November 6, 2008). "Five Favorite Pauly Shore Moments". Dayton Daily News (OH). p. GO28. http://www.daytondailynews.com/e/content/oh/story/entertainment/2008/11/06/ddn110708gopauly.html. "2. Audiences first get a view of Pauly's "south shore" when he moons the camera in "Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge." (WebCitation)
  18. ^ Tatum, Charles (March 29, 2003). Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge. eFilmCritic.com
  19. ^ "Cheeky anarchists in palace protest". BBC. August 3, 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/775725.stm. 
  20. ^ "Californians bare bottoms for passing trains". BBC News. July 11, 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10588850.stm. 
  21. ^ Liss, Sheldon (2005). "Mooning Amtrak Trains, Southern California USA". http://www.moonamtrak.org/. Retrieved 2006-02-04. 
  22. ^ Elsworth, Catherine (July 18, 2008). "'Mooning Amtrak' event shut down after crowd of 8,000 reveals too much". The Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group Limited). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2403691/Mooning-Amtrak-event-shut-down-after-crowd-of-8000-reveals-too-much.html. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  23. ^ McBride, Sarah (July 10, 2009). "A Mooning Festival Is Something The Mayor Just Can't Get Behind: As Town Turns Its Back on 30-Year-Old Event, Will Train Flashing Go Into Eclipse?" The Wall Street Journal, p. 1.
  24. ^ "Moon Amtrak - Annual Event Listin". Moon Amtrak - Annual Event Listings. http://datenig.ht/page/10. 
  25. ^ "Pole vaulter faces fine (picture included)". BBC News. November 15, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/3111284.stm. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
  26. ^ Youngs, Ian (November 17, 2005). "Legends turn out for Hall of Fame". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4441786.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  27. ^ "Police take no action over Barton incident". BBC Sport. October 4, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  28. ^ "Officials Charge Hikers Who Moon Cog Railway". WLBZ 2 (The Associated Press). November 15, 2007. http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74791. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  29. ^ "Moss pretended to moon crowd after scoring". ESPN. January 10, 2005. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs04/news/story?id=1963404. Retrieved 2008-09-01. 
  30. ^ Adams MD, Patch (July 26, 2009). "May - July 09: Guatemala, Brazil, Gaza, DC, Albuquerque". patchadams.org. Gesundheit Institute. http://www.patchadams.org/may-july-09. 
  31. ^ "Real 'Patch Adams' bares all for students". Rome News-Tribune. June 20, 2001. p. 7B.
  32. ^ "People: Patch Adams bares all". Reading Eagle. June 20, 2001. p. B8.
  33. ^ Susman, Gary (June 20, 2001). "News Summary: Class Act". Entertainment Weekly.
  34. ^ . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/8845431/Queen-mooned-by-construction-worker-in-Brisbane.html. 
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