Yup. You read the headline right. And through the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, no less. For the first time in it’s history, the city has hosted a nude activist event. Easy prudes! I just report on energy stuff and this is an oil depedency protest.

Nude Butts Against Oil Dependence is a part of a traditional frequent schedule of activist events organized by World Naked Bike Ride that celebrates cycling and the human form while making a statement about making a real difference in reducing negative environmental impacts on this planet. According to Conrad Schmidt, founder of The Work Less Party and Artists for Peace and WNBR and organizer for WNBR Vancouver, BC, “Our message to the world is one of simplification, human harmony and love. For a future to exist for tomorrows generations, we have to stop wasting the life blood energy of the Earth, stop fighting and killing in the name of consumerist wealth accumulation and learn to love and respect all life on this planet.”

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The St. Louis ride seeks to raise awareness of United States’ dependence on crude oil while promoting cycling as a way “to put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and the planet to cars and the pollution they create. We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the vulnerability faced by cyclists and pedestrians on our streets as well as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and other forms of non-renewable energy,” according to their website.

A documentary describing WNBR’s mission and purpose from High Altitude Films opens with the words: “The world’s cities are increasingly polluted, traffic is reaching gridlock, the polar ice caps are melting, the temperature of the world is rising. In large part, this is due to our dependency on oil based fuels. What can be done about it? Not much, you might say but that doesn’t mean you should do nothing.”

Hang it out in the breeze, brothers and sisters!