Where Have All the Streakers Gone? »
Back in the day - let's call it 1974 - streaking was all the rage. Ray Stevens hit it big with his song about streaking. It's like everyone could just enjoy life a little bit more. No one was taking themselves very seriously. Well, maybe Richard Nixon was, but we won't count him. Everyone else just seemed to be having a good time. To be fair, I was 4, so I can't really say for sure. I imagine that I was having a nice time.
Then, for a while, it seemed like streaking was everywhere. I even went to summer camp - with the Boy Scouts, no less (insert your own joke, either about the Boy Scouts letting me in or about the Boy Scouts and their practices) - and while I was in the showers, there was allegedly a streaker who ran by outside. I only saw his feet, so I can't say if he was naked or not. Now I'm not sure, but streaking through a camp of boys just seems a little off. Safe, probably. Odd, definitely.
It certainly shows that males are more likely to streak, if nothing else presents itself to do - even among a camp full of other males, we found something to liven things up. But what has happened to all the streakers lately? Have they jut died down? Or has the pastime gone underground? That seems somehow to be against the very concept of streaking.
