It really saddens me that New York based artist Andy Golub is co-organizing a body painting event in San Francisco with George Davis after George Davis has been widely exposed for his sexual harassment of my daughter who is now 15. She was a few years younger when he first started making inappropriate moves toward her.
I posted a video where I explain in details how this scandal unfolded. In the middle of the video is an interview with my kids where they tell their side of the story. My speech at the Women’s Day Parade of 2016 where I expose Davis is also included in the video.
I received many letters of support from nudists around the world condemning George Davis’ behavior.
However, Andy Golub doesn’t feel a need to distance himself from Davis in any way. When I first called Andy and told him that Davis is a sexual predator and most likely a pedophile, when I fist told Andy my daughter’s story he said: “I wish you would have told me this a few weeks ago” before he made arrangements with George to help him get a permit. I told him that a permit is easy to obtain for anyone. I told him I could get it for him or that I could walk him through the process and that he could get a permit on his own.
However, the inconvenience of having to fill out a one-page form was more of a problem for Golub than having a pedophile as a co-organizer. Later he told me that he is on George Davis’ side because he has known him longer than he has known me.
Many people already feel uncomfortable around nude people, especially nude men. There are widespread fears of nude men being pedophiles and sexual predators. Obviously, nudity and rape don’t have to be seen as synonymous but people like George Davis and Andy Golub surely add to the problem of body shame and fear of public nudity by either perpetuating child abuse or turning a blind eye on it.
Even though body painting is seen as a form of free expression it can be in its own way an extension of body shame. Many people who feel OK walking around in public with body paint covering their bodies would not get fully naked. Body paint is almost like clothes. It may not cover your body the same way clothes do but it still does cover it. Body paint distracts the viewer from the body itself and it almost feels that the goal of body painting is often to camouflage the genital area and the nipples, you know, those “obscene” parts. It also serves to camouflage the “imperfections” such as belly fat or other things that our prude society can’t handle.
I personally prefer to see the human body in its natural form, not hidden by clothes nor paint, regardless of its shape. Genitals don’t offend me either and I don’t see any reason to paint them over.
Andy Golub is not the only pedophile-defender in our ranks. Sadly, old time San Francisco nudists Rusty Mills and Tortuga think that my daughter should just put up with George’s abuse in silence.
I tried to publish my story and video about my daughter being sexually harassed by George on the nudist email list run by Tortuga. But he censored my story and never published it. Instead he proceeded to promote George Davis’ event as if nothing had happened. When I confronted him about it in an email he simply did not respond.
I invite you all to give this some serious thought. Do you feel that my child should put up with sexual harassment in silence? Do you feel that I as a mother should just shut up in order to maintain status quo? That I should pretend that everything is OK and continue letting George Davis come to my events, make speeches and march next to my children? Should I let George Davis take my daughter alone on a boat ride as he keeps insisting? Should I wait till he rapes her? And may be I should keep it hush-hush even then?
This really reminds me of a dysfunctional family where rape and attempts to rape a child are forcefully hidden with threats and guilt trips. This whole experience with George Davis, Andy Golub, Rusty Mills, Tortuga and a few other child-rapist defenders reminds me of my own father who still refuses to believe me that I was raped and prostituted by my grandfather as a young child. I can’t even begin to describe that feeling. Kind of makes me want to kill myself.
Gypsy Taub
https://www.indybay.org/publish.php
GYPSY TAUB'S RESPONSE TO GEORGE DAVIS' LIES AND INSULTS from Lustful Goddess on Vimeo.
IN THE MIDDLE of this video is an interview with my children about George Davis’s sexual harassment of my daughter. That video also includes my speech at the Women’s Day nude event in APril of 2016 where I exposed George Davis publically.
from Joe S:
There’s no question in my mind.
Your loyalty to your daughter means that you must stand by her.
She is counting on you.
We also all stand by her and you.
George Davis will, unfortunately, continue to live his life in the self-serving way he always has done.
We can’t do much about that.
BUT, the beauty of Karma is that eventually, his way of life will catch up with him.
His time is coming. Don’t worry.
Forget about him now.
Don’t allow his stench to cloud your life.
Put him out of your mind so he can harm you no longer.
THESE GUYS NEED TO BE IN PRISON 4LIFE THEY ARE TO DANGEROUS TO BE AROUND ANYBODY EVEN KIDS SHAME ON THEM FOR BEING AROUND KIDS
You need to shut the fuck. Know that the pedaphile or hebeohile’s quiltiy of life is very sad and they are tortured by there attraction. My hebephilia started at the age of twelve and because stronger in the middle of puberty. I had a strong attraction to 6-7 graders when I was in eighth grade. My sexual ends usally at ninth grade. I have the same sexual thoughts and I can’t get past the smell of a boy when he reaches puberty. Once puberty has started the a bonus starts realesinf pharmones that I highly attracted to. The size of a penis determines me being attracteded to it. You scare pedaphile and hebephiles who shouldnt deny who the really are from finding accountability to help them keep them from acting there fantasies out. You find someone and keep one accountable instead of hating them which keeps them from coming out to a person they can trust and when they can’t trust a person that can understand there terrible attraction that they can’t change I have come to care very much about the terror of the typical pedophile hebephile who realizes as a young teenager that his attraction isn’t going to go away, who has nowhere to turn for help.I hoped that my strong sexual desire for boys were going to go away growing up but it never did. Self worth and respect is not possible when your attracted to a boy.
Thank you Gypsy and Inti!
Hi Gypsy.
I just read your article on Indybay, and watched the video on your site. Just wanted to send solidarity your way, and commend you for exposing someone who preys on children. I’m glad you and Inti spoke out.
It’s horrifying that so many people think that this should be a personal matter between you and him, as if his pursuit of Inti is some special, isolated attraction of his, and it’s just up to you to keep her away from him. If he has no boundaries with one kid, why would they assume that he keeps any better ones with others?
Perhaps some people are ignorant for lack of personal experience, but I think there are a lot of people who keep themselves stubbornly ignorant because they don’t want to confront their own or anyone else’s trauma. I really appreciate that you were also able to speak about your own experience of being abused, and to acknowledge that it would have been better to act sooner. I think it can help empower others to recognize when they are too slow to notice, or to act on what they see.
Unfortunately in a society where nudity is largely equated with sexuality, the nudist community needs to be alert to sexual exploitation, especially of kids, because sexual predators see the expression of body freedom as an opportunity to fly under the radar, take advantage, and sexualize situations that aren’t. I experienced this at Harbin when I was younger. I’m grateful that you are not afraid to talk about it.
Thank you for not only protecting your own children, but all who may come in contact with this man.
Much love to you and yours.
Isis
I read your Articel on your website. I find it sad that her daughter had to experience something like this. I strongly hope that they will bear no “lasting damage” them and can continue to move openly and freely.
What has now done exactly G. Davis, I could not hear in the video, because my English is not so good.
Much more importantly, I think it’s the Your daughter has the courage to address it.
You write yourself that there are several such persons can still be found in your ranks. Hopefully all children and young people are then also so brave to address that.
I hope to continue to be able to read reports of you in San Francisco.
Qtoter from Germany