Is this a great country or what? Where else could a religious holiday like Mardi Gras be turned into a a week-long bacchanalia of excessive alcohol consumption and naked women? And even though other cities have parties, the only real place to go for Mardi Gras drunken nakedness is the real sin-city, New Orleans, and the French Quarter, specifically, Bourbon Street.
Yes, Mardi Gras has a long, tame and fully-clothed, if not completely sober, history in New Orleans with Krewes, fancy dress balls and elaborate parades. But that’s Mardi Gras for the natives. For us gawking tourists, Mardi Gras in New Orleans is all about massive alcohol consumption, beads, flashing and naked women. And who really needs parades and fancy dress balls if there aren’t any naked women.
And before the Storm, the nakedness wasn’t just confined to Mardi Gras week. Pretty much any warm weekend in spring, summer and fall would find girls out on the balconies and Bourbon Street itself flashing their tits and pussies for beads or sometimes just for the exhibitionistis thrill of it. Bu with the city fathers attempting to clean up the city after Katrina the nakedness is pretty much confined to Mardi Gras this week. That’s not bad, just not as much fun as it used to be.
So I’ve been taking pictures of flashing and naked women on Bourbon Street since the early 2000′s and I’d like to show you some of the best of them here. These pictures ae a little sample of what you’ll see in future posts.