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Naked yoga doesn't violate community guidelines. Really? Are bare pubes necessary to illustrate the movements and poses being taught?

polotics 6y ago
I'm dumbfounded by the downvotes your perfectly legitimate question is getting. I think these enterprising ladies just found a way to beat YouTube's AI identifiers of NSFW content, and deserve to rake in the add revenue while it lasts.
- vfclists 6y ago
  Thats the issue with the voting systems on reddit and HN. People get to downvote anonymously and don't even have to provide reasons.
- rawrenstein 6y ago
  Channels can't monetize "Adult Content" according to "Advertiser-friendly content guidelines" from YouTube [1]. Each video I encountered was clearly marked by AI for such content. It requires human intervention to successfully verify a claim that the content is educational. I doubt most of these spam YouTube accounts are doing this. (I'm claiming spam because separate accounts are copying and pasting the same video descriptions.) It's sad to see really. Naked yoga is really great outside of this exploitation. Videos with no verbal instructions and non-instructional shots of genitalia kill the spirit of the practice. Such a shame. [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en
oh_sigh 6y ago
Is visible head hair necessary to illustrate the poses being taught?
mirekrusin 6y ago
I don't think so, a lot of them seem to be shaved.
jerrya 6y ago
Naked Yoga Youtube is new to me, but to argue the point Bare pubes may not be necessary, but even minimal clothing on arms, torso, legs often hides many details that make learning the poses easier, and the lack of clothing on many typical, normal bodies helps normalize what a typical, normal body looks like doing yoga and so helps encourage those of us with typical, normal bodies to keep on practicing. Perhaps the alternative is minimal underwear for pubes, but why bother, yoga via video is either 99.99% not erotic or 100% a porn movie and it's easy to determine which is which. Yoga itself is exercise and education. Naked yoga too.
- vfclists 6y ago
  Given Yoga's Indian origin, do you have any videos of traditional Indian yoga instructors who believe a display of their pubes is necessary to impart their knowledge?
  - jerrya 6y ago
    I'll assume good faith and ignorance, but you might first try google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_yoga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_yoga Naked yoga (Sanskrit nagna yoga or vivastra yoga) is the practice of yoga without clothes. It has existed since ancient times as a spiritual practice, and is mentioned in the 7th-10th century Bhagavata Purana and by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo. Early advocates of naked yoga in modern times include the gymnosophists such as Blanche de Vries, and the author Marguerite Agniel. In the 21st century, the practice is gaining popularity, notably in western societies that have more familiarity with social nudity. Yoga has been practiced naked since ancient times. In the Bhagavata Purana (written c. 800–1000 AD) it says: ”A person in the renounced order of life may try to avoid even a dress to cover himself. If he wears anything at all, it should be only a loincloth, and when there is no necessity, a sannyāsī should not even accept a daṇḍa. A sannyāsī should avoid carrying anything but a daṇḍa and kamaṇḍalu.” [1] Alexander the Great reached India in the 4th century BC. Along with his army, he took Greek academics with him who later wrote memoirs about geography, people and customs they saw. One of Alexander's companion was Onesicritus, quoted in Book 15, Sections 63-65 by Strabo, who describes yogins of India.[2] Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins (Mandanis ) practiced aloofness and "different postures – standing or sitting or lying naked – and motionless".[3] ...

polotics 6y ago

I'm dumbfounded by the downvotes your perfectly legitimate question is getting. I think these enterprising ladies just found a way to beat YouTube's AI identifiers of NSFW content, and deserve to rake in the add revenue while it lasts.

vfclists 6y ago
Thats the issue with the voting systems on reddit and HN. People get to downvote anonymously and don't even have to provide reasons.
rawrenstein 6y ago
Channels can't monetize "Adult Content" according to "Advertiser-friendly content guidelines" from YouTube [1]. Each video I encountered was clearly marked by AI for such content. It requires human intervention to successfully verify a claim that the content is educational. I doubt most of these spam YouTube accounts are doing this. (I'm claiming spam because separate accounts are copying and pasting the same video descriptions.) It's sad to see really. Naked yoga is really great outside of this exploitation. Videos with no verbal instructions and non-instructional shots of genitalia kill the spirit of the practice. Such a shame. [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

oh_sigh 6y ago

Is visible head hair necessary to illustrate the poses being taught?

mirekrusin 6y ago

I don't think so, a lot of them seem to be shaved.

jerrya 6y ago

Naked Yoga Youtube is new to me, but to argue the point Bare pubes may not be necessary, but even minimal clothing on arms, torso, legs often hides many details that make learning the poses easier, and the lack of clothing on many typical, normal bodies helps normalize what a typical, normal body looks like doing yoga and so helps encourage those of us with typical, normal bodies to keep on practicing. Perhaps the alternative is minimal underwear for pubes, but why bother, yoga via video is either 99.99% not erotic or 100% a porn movie and it's easy to determine which is which. Yoga itself is exercise and education. Naked yoga too.

vfclists 6y ago
Given Yoga's Indian origin, do you have any videos of traditional Indian yoga instructors who believe a display of their pubes is necessary to impart their knowledge?
- jerrya 6y ago
  I'll assume good faith and ignorance, but you might first try google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_yoga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_yoga Naked yoga (Sanskrit nagna yoga or vivastra yoga) is the practice of yoga without clothes. It has existed since ancient times as a spiritual practice, and is mentioned in the 7th-10th century Bhagavata Purana and by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo. Early advocates of naked yoga in modern times include the gymnosophists such as Blanche de Vries, and the author Marguerite Agniel. In the 21st century, the practice is gaining popularity, notably in western societies that have more familiarity with social nudity. Yoga has been practiced naked since ancient times. In the Bhagavata Purana (written c. 800–1000 AD) it says: ”A person in the renounced order of life may try to avoid even a dress to cover himself. If he wears anything at all, it should be only a loincloth, and when there is no necessity, a sannyāsī should not even accept a daṇḍa. A sannyāsī should avoid carrying anything but a daṇḍa and kamaṇḍalu.” [1] Alexander the Great reached India in the 4th century BC. Along with his army, he took Greek academics with him who later wrote memoirs about geography, people and customs they saw. One of Alexander's companion was Onesicritus, quoted in Book 15, Sections 63-65 by Strabo, who describes yogins of India.[2] Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins (Mandanis ) practiced aloofness and "different postures – standing or sitting or lying naked – and motionless".[3] ...