WARNING: THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO ADULTS WHO HATE SEEING OTHER ADULTS HAVE NEARLY AS MUCH FUN AS THEY CAN WITHOUT CLOTHES ON. CARTWHEELING NAKED ON THE FIELD, HURDLING STUMPS AND GRAPPLING WITH LOCAL CONSTABULARY CAN BE INJURIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH AND THIS WEBSITE ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR BROKEN BONES AND DAMAGED SENSIBILITIES THAT OFTEN RESULT IN THE PROCESS.

Did Adam and Eve go looking for the nearest Benetton store to cover up after God had created them in 'his own image'? Since the Bible is resolutely silent on the issue, one must assume that the First Couple gamboling in Paradise were the earliest streakers known to human history.

While grown-up men and women sprinting naked across high-profile events continue to defy any easy explanation, what's certain is that all streakers love to cock-a-snook (or other available parts) at a world compulsively obsessed with keeping the private bits hidden.

According to a 34 year-old Canadian gentleman who goes by the name of 'Bare Rider', "I'm not sure why I streak. The fact is I love being naked and get high thinking that someone is going to see me disrobed. Going to a nude beach is just not the same - what's the fun in being what you're expected to be? There's no shock value. On the other hand when I streak, the anxiety is palpable - will they see me? What will they say? And this makes me want to do it again and again."

The mad urge to arouse shock and laughter has inspired streak after streak after the phenomenon first caught on in the United States and later spread to Australia and other parts of the world. The gangs of university students purportedly celebrating spring and sexual revolution across campuses could have given buck-naked ancient Greek athletes a run for their Olympic money. After the first flasher appeared at the University of South Carolina in late January 1974, a virtual explosion of bare epidermis sometimes saw 125 runners streak in unison.