Mooning

Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, and also potentially exposing the genitals.

[1] As documented by McLaren, "'mooning', or exposing one's butt to shame an enemy ... had a long pedigree in peasant culture" throughout the Middle Ages, and in many nations.

[5] A group of locals, called "Noonamah Moonies", mooned the Ghan at Livingstone Airstrip in 2004 and 2024.

As a punishment, either Dievs or Mēness (a lunar deity) put the woman along with a carrying pole on the Moon, with her butt now being visible to everyone.

In that case, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had ruled that indecent exposure is limited to a person's genitalia.

Illustration of a woman raising her dress and mooning a nun (1905)
Australian demonstrating the act in Sydney, 2011
Students at Stanford University conduct a "mass mooning" in May 1995. This demonstration was in protest of censorship in the American media .
The Papal Belvedere by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the 1545 publication of Martin Luther 's Depiction of the Papacy : German peasants respond to a papal bill of Pope Paul III . Caption reads: "The Pope speaks: Our sentences are to be feared, even if unjust. Response: Be damned! Behold, o furious race, our bared buttocks. Here, Pope, is my 'belvedere'"