Went to the Fremont Fair. The unauthorized naked bicyclists were out in force once again, beloved by paradegoers of all ages and detested (but unarrested) by cops.

This year, the baring bikers all had elaborate body-paint designs, and almost all were female. Both factors helped make the experience more of a display and less of a statement.

Mind you, I do eternally adore the work of heavenly creation that is the adult female body. And I have nothing less than total admiration for those women who selflessly share the sight of their physical beauty with the world.

It’s just that the Fremont Fair’s bike brigade has been a situation in which adults of all genders could appreciate this beauty, and in which children of all ages could glimpse adult bodies presented as something neither disgusting nor overtly sexual. It’s been a proclamation of freedom, in which the bikers invited the audience to share the spirit of wholesome naturist body-love and innocent norm-breaking.

I’d like to see that continue.

IN RELATED NEWS: The Gun Street Girls, those lusciously costumed neo-burlesque dancing dames, are apparently splitting into two new troupes, neither of which will be Seattle-based. One will be in New Orleans; the other in Portland. Let’s hope both will still visit often, for either separate or combined shows.