The University of Maryland claimed to have mustered no less than 553 naked students to streak three miles one evening in March 1974. This beats the record claimed by the University of South Carolina of 508 a few nights earlier. These efforts, however, are paltry compared with the 1,000 claimed by the students at Athens, Georgia, or the 1,200 claimed in Boulder, Colorado ("Economist", March 16, 1974). (Perhaps most remarkable about the streaking fashion is the hysteria with which it has been greeted in some judicial and press circles. Yet again we are led to believe that the human body is inherently obscene, a judgment that is reflected in some of the penalties on offending streakers. In one instance in Britain a streaker, harmless enough, was fined £100; in another instance, in Belfast, a streaker was sent to jail for three months!)