Greeks Offended By US Prudishness

ATHENS (Reuters) – A clutch of complaints by U.S. viewers that the
Athens Olympics opening ceremony featured lewd nudity has incensed the
Games chief, who warned American regulators to back off from policing
ancient Greek culture.

"Far from being indecent, the opening ceremonies were beautiful,
enlightening, uplifting and enjoyable," Angelopoulos wrote in a
weekend commentary in the Los Angeles Times titled "Since
When is Greece’s Culture Obscene?"

He might also have noted that although the original Olympics
featured homo-erotic oil wrestling, no-holds-barred gay bath houses, animal sacrifices
and myriad
luxurious temple cults where drunken orgies with the priestesses was considered
religious devotion, in this day and age one is much more likely to
find all of these phenomena in
Los Angeles than in Athens.

article from Reuters

photo from Athens Opening Ceremony by Wolfgang Rattay