U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Sienna De Santis and U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Heidi Dean during a patrol in Sangin Valley, Afghanistan in 2010.
Mark Roberts says he’s “hanging up my birthday suit at last,” according to The Mail on Sunday. The professional “streaker” who claims to have perpetrated 519 streaks during his career, including highly publicized ones at the British Open golf tournament, Wimbledon, and the Super Bowl in 2004, says he’s giving up his main occupation of the last twenty years—he is otherwise unemployed, but has made some money as an underwear model and by publishing an autobiography—because his son’s friends were laughing at him. “What’s the problem, then?” asked dad, who says he got into streaking in the first place in order to make people laugh.
“Well, you’re my dad,’ replied Mark Junior, aged nineteen.
“That really hit home with me,” Mark Senior told The Mail.
The sentiment does him credit, of course, but it’s still a little bit difficult to imagine that it took him twenty years and 519 public displays of his manhood before he realized that his chosen career might be a cause of embarrassment to his nearest and dearest—or that being a “dad” one’s son can be proud of pretty much invariably involves keeping one’s clothes on in public. Another reason why Mr. Roberts may have decided to give it up, however, is that exhibitionism has lately gone mainstream, leaving little