A nude peace protest scheduled for later this month has been moved back a day because the outdoor location was turned into a mud pit by recent downpours.
The event will take place 30 miles West of Portland in a private field.
As of today, 170 people have signed up to take part in a nude protest for peace by joining together to create an image of the Chinese symbol for peace, based on a design by Daniel Dancer. Event organizers hope to have 250 people attend.
"By using our nude bodies in peaceful protest we hope to remind ourselves and the world that, once stripped of identifying garments and insignia, we are all equal in our fragility, vulnerability, mortality, and humanity," Theresa Reed, aka, AVN freelancer Darklady, one of the organizers of the event, said in a statement.
"We don't think that going to war is a good idea," Reed told AVN/com. "We're hoping to have 250 people and my guess is there will be 250 different reasons for being there."
Participants are asked to bring a towel or something else that is skin colored to lie down on. They will lay down in the Chinese peace symbol pattern with their clothes on, take a photo, then quickly disrobe and take a photo of themselves in the same pattern nude. The nudity shouldn't last for more than a couple of minutes.
The event is taking place on private property to avoid harassment from the police and also to protect the identity of those involved. "It allows the protesters a lot more anonymity, if they need that. A lot of these people are in sensitive positions. They work with children or are schoolteachers or in other capacities where nudity might be frowned upon," said Reed.
The people behind the protest, the Explorer's Club, are predominantly people with an alternative sexual lifestyle. "They aren't swingers, but they are definitely a lot of people exploring their sexuality - there are polys, swingers, tantra. The event is being promoted predominantly in the alternative sexuality underground."
Reed also felt it was important to point out that the protest was not a show of support for the Iraqi government, nor a condemnation of the men and women who serve in the U.S. military.
The event will take place at 2PM on Sunday, March 23. The address is 18300 NW Green Mt Rd. Look for signs to the exact location.
To register to participate in the protest, click here.
