Bill O'Reilly on Naked Partying

An amusing transcript here of a Bill O'Reilly interview with Yale graduate Alexandra Robbins expands upon the recent New York Times article (registration required) on nude college parties. Notice how O'Reilly immediately brings up the one incident of sexual assault following one of the parties in an effort to paint the activity as some sort of sex romp, but Ms. Robbins holds her own and notes that all college campuses have problems with crime and it's probable that naked parties are actually safer than other campus get-togethers.

O'REILLY: OK, so you don't see a down side to this. And you say that this sexual assault that happened after one of these naked parties, it could happen in any mixer with everybody with their clothes on and this and that. Now does everybody on the campus know about this stuff? I mean, is it very common and it's no big deal? Is that the attitude now?

ROBBINS: Well, I think that the reason this is popping up so frequently today is that as the media increasingly exposes nudity, breasts on cable, behinds on networks, panty-free pop stars in supermarket tabloids, it becomes less of a big deal to the public.

I don't complely agree, there is a move in this country to criminalize non-sexual nudity (see the recent Ohio law which passed), and students are being expelled or arrested for mooning or streaking. Perhaps it's true that attitudes are changing among college-age youth, but the powers-that-be are clamping down with more FCC fines for "indecency" and the religious conservatives regularly express moral indignation at things as normal as nudity in art.

O'Reilly proves himself to be a loofa-totin' pervert when he admits that he cannot go to a naked party because he would be immediately arrested. One presumes the arrest would be for inappropriate sexual behavior because he would not be able to control himself, and not because he just looks bad naked.

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