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==History== [[File:Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Afb ANWG00190000001.jpg|thumb|A nude Dutch protestor in 1941, demonstrating against the Germans' clothing rations]] Historical forerunners of modern-day streakers include the neo-[[Adamites]] who travelled naked through towns and villages in [[medieval]] Europe, and the 17th-century [[Quaker]] [[Solomon Eccles]], who went nude through the [[City of London]] with a burning brazier on his head.<ref name=Wilson>{{cite news|title=From the Observer archive, 17 March 1974: the naked truth about streaking|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze|author=Andrew Wilson|date=22 March 2015|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> At 7:00 PM on 5 July 1799, a man was arrested at the [[Mansion House, London]], and sent to the [[Poultry Compter]]. He confirmed that he had accepted a wager of 10 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]] ({{Inflation|GBP|10.50|1799|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=Β£}}) to run naked from [[Cornhill, London|Cornhill]] to [[Cheapside]].<ref>''[[The Times]]'', 8 July 1799, "Official Appointments and Notices"</ref> Fines of between Β£10 and Β£50 were imposed on streakers by British and Irish magistrates in the early 1970s. The offences used for prosecution were typically minor, such as the violation of park regulations. Nevertheless, the chief law in force against streaking in [[England and Wales]] at that time remained the 16th-century [[Vagrancy#United Kingdom|vagrancy law]], for which the punishment in 1550 had been whipping.<ref name=Wilson/> ===In the United States=== Not to be confused with the [[fad]] known as streaking, the first recorded incident of running naked in public by a college student in the United States occurred in 1804 at Washington College (now [[Washington and Lee University]]) when senior [[George William Crump]] was arrested for running naked through [[Lexington, Virginia]], where the university is located.<ref>{{cite web|year=2011|title=University Chronology|url=http://www.wlu.edu/x52674.xml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926214045/http://www.wlu.edu/x52674.xml|archive-date=26 September 2011|access-date=1 July 2011|publisher=Washington and Lee University}} Retrieved from Internet Archive 9 February 2014.</ref> Crump was suspended for the academic session, but later went on to become a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CRUMP, George William, (1786 - 1848)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000956|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917133205/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000956|archive-date=17 September 2011|access-date=1 July 2011|work=Biographical Directory of the United States congress}} Retrieved from Internet Archive 9 February 2014.</ref> In June 1973, the press reported on a "streaking" trend at Michigan State University.<ref>{{cite web|date=1 June 1973|title=Ironwood Daily Globe Newspaper Archives, Jun 1, 1973, p. 1|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/ironwood-daily-globe-jun-01-1973-p-1/|access-date=12 January 2022|website=NewspaperArchive.com|language=en}}</ref> In December 1973, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine called streaking "a growing Los Angeles-area fad" that was "catching on among college students and other groups".<ref>"Takeoff", ''Time'', 10 December 1973.</ref> A letter writer responded, "Let it be known that streakers have plagued the campus police at [[University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]] for the past decade", pointing out that a group of University of Notre Dame students sponsored a "Streakers' Olympics" in 1972.<ref name=":0" /> In February 1974, the press began calling it a "streaking epidemic."<ref>{{cite web|date=28 February 1974|title=Port Arthur News Newspaper Archives, Feb 28, 1974, p. 18|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/port-arthur-news-feb-28-1974-p-18/|website=NewspaperArchive.com|language=en}}</ref> By the first week of March, college campuses across the country were competing to set streaking records.<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 18, 1974|title=Streaking: One Way To Get A B.A.|journal=Newsweek|pages=41β42|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=March 18, 1974|title=Streaking, Streaking Everywhere|magazine=Time|pages=58β59|access-date=}}</ref> On March 11, 1974, several Americans imported streaking to Japan, where a series of copycat incidents occurred over the next month.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crime expert: Wrongdoings are a local thing|url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/crime-expert-wrongdoings-are-a-local-thing?comment-order=latest|access-date=12 January 2022|website=Japan Today| date=7 June 2011 |language=en}}</ref> The prominence of streaking in 1974 has been linked both to the [[sexual revolution]] and a conservative backlash against [[feminism]] and the campus protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="bucks" />
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