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Key West residents rally against Fantasy Fest nudity
Key West residents rally against Fantasy Fest nudity
BY PRU SOWERS
KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER
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I do agree with them about the lack of creativity and as long as they give me enough notice to cancel my rental and vacation somewhere else I’m ok with it. It’s your town. You will save me money I can spend a third of the amount somewhere else.
There is allot of people who enjoy all aspects of fantasy fest and changed there dates to kw Judy to go to fantasy fest and kw makes lots of money during f.f..to even think about banning it…..there was easy to many costumes this yr and the parade was pretty boring….u should ban ALL the creepy people that come and get in people’s faces or personal space to take photos just to post them our for themselves….
Be polite and ask people to take there photo our to be in the photo with them……
Pure nudity with out being painted is gross….. Just make sure your body parts r covered in paint our pasties or cloth….
Please don’t take all the fun away……
I used to be a regular at Fantasy Fest in the late 80s and early 90s. Came back in 2010 and was appalled at the difference in the event. I was looking forward to a repeat of the lavish costumes and spectating that I enjoyed when last I visited, and instead was subjected to what appeared to be a taping of way too many girls gone wild. The last thing I want to do on vacation is watch a parade of topless girls who seem to be competing against each other for photo ops for free. This past year I was there for a couple of days mid week and felt like I was on the edge of a swinger’s convention that was every bit as disgusting as Mardi Gras. I loved Fantasy Fest with all the creativity and the slight edge that formed the early years- somewhere along the line Key West crossed the line between sexy and playful and became sleazy and commercialized.
I’ve only been here for 2 years. Being that I get to travel a lot to many different countries and cities Key West is another new experience and good one at that for me. However, Fantasy Fest is out of control. Nobody wants to see 90 y/o grandma and grandpa walking down the street naked. All those young women who wanna strip, take that to a strip club, there are plenty in key west. This FF was completely backwards. It was supposed to be Anime…. Not Hentai. One image I can’t get away from is some 6.5 fatass harry sasquache wearing nothing but steel toed boots and tighty whities twerking in the street.. Literally. Key West is a small coral rock, so it’s hard to get kids away from FF that are living near the action. If this is the kind of message that Key West likes to deliver to their youth, then by all means keep it up. I’m not saying kids can’t differentiate right from wrong, but there are those that have been born and raised here and all they know is that this place is notorius for nudity and the extremely odd and when they move to a more normal society at some point in their life, it’s going to be a culture shock. It is true that FF is now published on sex sights, it’s also hosted of Ron Jeremy (pornstar) as well as other pornstars as we have seen this year all over billboards. Well Key West, what’s your thoughts. This place used to be a beautiful island and is now a concrete jungle that attracts perverts from all over the world who only care about T and A. In fact many have dubbed this place the land of the weird and even go as far as to say “anything goes in Key West.” there’s nothing wrong with being unique as a community but there needs to be civil boundaries. These people don’t stip and go butt naked on the mainland, they come down here to do it nuff said. I can only imagine how many unwanted sexual assaults get unreported and happen during the week of FF, especially with the amount of alcohol flowing on the streets. I don’t have a problem with festivity, drinking or partying and having a street bash and a good time, but Fantasy Fest was never originally “Sexual Fantasy Fest”, but that is what it has become, and that is what Key West has allowed to happen. Take control of your environment because you are the embassador of your county and state.
Anything that is illegal within the Fantasy zone especially is a Federal crime. This would mean public nudity/lewd conduct is a Federal crime, enforced straight from Washington, DC, and investigated by the FBI.
To extinguish public nudity at Fantasy Fest, you really may as well just have the FBI and even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security patrolling Fantasy Fest, arresting all the nudes, and warning everyone that indecent exposure is a Federal crime, not a municipal crime.