- British model Katie Price faces possible arrest for nude sunbathing in the Maldives.
Foreign Office travel advice warns: "Nudism and topless sunbathing are prohibited throughout the Maldives including on resort islands. "The Maldives is a Muslim country and serious violations of law may lead to a prison sentence."
- No disciplinary action will be taken against six students who streaked across the stage at the Green Mountain College commencement in Vermont.
It's sort of become a new tradition at the school, one that is not encouraged but not "stamped out, either," (communications director Kevin) Coburn said. "It happened at last year's commencement," Coburn said, hours after Saturday's streaking.
- Married for 43 years, Ian and Nancy Watters love the nude lifestyle.
"We do everything in the nude; mowing, mulching, gardening. We always seem to have a lot of laughs and that’s good for your health."
- A sex theme park slated to open in October has been torn down by Chinese authorities because it was "vulgar, ill-minded and misleading."
- A South Texas town is debating whether or not to ban "nude sketch classes" in the Arts District, due to its proximity to schools and day care centers.
- Laurie Penny says that burlesque today is nothing more than a "misogynist scam."
I began to realise that what really differentiated my act from that of your average stripper wasn't the performance, or the costumes, but simply class. Like the majority of women who choose to get involved with burlesque, our troupe was made up of middle-class girls, with the act offering us an opportunity to indulge in raunchy exhibitionism without feeling "cheap" (at least initially). Burlesque serves up misogyny in a tasteful package of feathers, while the explicit nature of the shows increases each year. When I was performing, complete nudity was frowned on, but burlesque acts such as Satan's Striptease and Empress Stah have since started offering full-frontal flashing.
- Why are law enforcement officials targeting Craigslist for censorship? It's "good politics."
- A teen has been suspended by his fundamentalist Baptist educators for attending a prom at another high school because there was "dancing, rock music and hand-holding."
- A group of Belgian actors rode nude on bicycles at the Cannes Film Festival to promote their movie.
- The Christian Action Network in Cape Town, South Africa, want to criminalize pornography and other forms of adult entertainment after a recent Sexpo event. Miss Nude South Africa says that Sexpo was not exploitative.
- 80% of Key West tourism-based businesses support a clothing-optional beach.
- A Lutheran pastor has denounced Miss California USA Carrie Prejean as a hypocrite.
"(In) America, according to this girl ... it is totally immoral for two people of the same gender who are in love to enter into a lifelong, faithful, monogamous union, (and) apparently not a problem at all for a 17-year-old girl to be photographed half-naked for the expressed purpose of sexually arousing millions of heterosexual men to whom she is not married and who are not married to her."
- Dita Von Teese was ordered to show "less cleavage" during the Eurovision Song Contest.
- A nude sketch of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is up for auction in Paris. Imagine if a similar image of Michelle Obama went on sale in New York City, and you can clearly see the cultural divide.
- Does a teacher have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" for files stored on a school computer?
- The producer of a Danish TV reality show has apologized for shooting a nude scene on a Malaysian island.
- If you think nudity has caused some trouble through the years, consider these instances where articles of clothing caused riots.
- Kenyans want the statue of a nude boy in front of a court house to be demolished claiming it "encourages pedophilia."
- One woman ignores the "naked baby police" and lets her kids frolic nude in a wading pool.
- Striking a balance between "nudists and prudists" has been difficult at North Lido Park in Sarasota, Florida.
- The Calgary Music Festival features bands, nature, and a "nude slip-n-slide."
- Helena writes, "stop being so prude and get your kit off" after witnessing women showering in their bathing suits at the local gym.
Being a Swede, where nudity is something natural, this is incredibly strange to me. When I'm in the communal showers I notice that these women are still wearing their swimmers but had they been naked I wouldn't have batted an eyelid. Why is it that some women, depending on their upbringing, culture or religion, cannot get undressed in front of other women. We all look the same. And when I'm in the shower I don't look at what your bodies look like. I'm busy trying to squeeze out of my wet, too tight bathing suit and just wash myself. I have no interest in looking at other women. So please, just get your kit off and feel that it's ok to wash yourselves properly. Because you can't really reach all your bits when wearing a Speedo!
- A new naked tribe has been found in Nigeria.
- William Cook, who founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum in Gisborne, New Zealand, was an avid nudist.
...he often did his gardening unimpeded by clothes, apart from the boot he wore to help with digging holes, and visitors soon learned that it was a good idea to phone for an appointment.
- Attorney Scott H. Greenfield calls the criminalization of teen sexting as "the stupidest thing ever."
- Columnist Jennifer Parello is approached by a harsh critic while nude in a locker room.
- A Chinese woman is flashing her lopsided breasts outside a hospital to protest her botched implants.
- A woman wearing a bikini top was booted from an Australian shopping mall because security thought she was wearing a bra.
- A divorced father of three boys writes to an advice columnist because he's concerned about the nudity they found to be "cool" on a beach vacation with their mother and her boyfriend. Instead of reassuring him that nudity on many beaches is a cultural norm, "Ellie" offers the following bad advice:
Obviously, if you ever believe your children are being neglected or abused, you should legally object, and protect your sons in every way possible. BUT, regarding different values, your recourse depends on your keeping open good lines of communication, both with your sons and your ex.
- A British naturist club has found a new home at a public pool.
Malcolm Boura, 56, one of the club's founders and a naturist for more than 30 years, said:"It's only a minority of people who misunderstand what naturism is about. Evidence from polls show that clearly the public in general understand.
"We had one or two hiccups when we started in Mildenhall. But the council, which ran the pool at the times, was very helpful and very supportive and we had remarkably little difficulty."
- The Springfield Foundation in Ohio has requested that a painting of a nude woman by Jerry Ott be removed from the Springfield Museum of Art for their annual meeting.
"We have a conservative donor base," explained Ted Vander Roest, the foundation's executive director. "We felt it wouldn't be to their liking.
"Some of them are in their 80s."
- Students at the University of Iowa will host their first annual Nearly Naked Mile on Saturday, March 7, where runners remove layers of clothing for charity.
- Beer, floats and nudity have been banned from this year's Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco, but police said they will not issue citations for indecent exposure.
- Two Wisconsin teens face municipal citations for exchanging nude photos of themselves. Police are calling it "kids making poor choices", but the article does not state specifically what the charges are.
- That nude photo of Madonna sold for $37,500.
- Parents like this one need to start fighting back against porn charges when their kids are caught sexting.
Brian Hunt told the Cape Cod Times that the Lawrence School students, ranging in age from 12 to 14, have "learned their lesson," and that media reports of the incident have been overblown.
"They're all good kids," he said. "But they are young. A 13-year-old did what a 13-year-old did. They all knew that they weren't supposed to do it."
- The video of Salma Hayek breastfeeding another woman's baby has cast a light on the USA and its unique phobia about breastfeeding issues.
"We've lost the concept that breastfeeding is normal and human in the United States," said (Dr. Miriam) Labbok. "In most of the world, it's [nursing someone else's baby is] as common as breastfeeding" one's own."
- The Leeds City Museum is offering "Designer Body", a piece of performance theatre which celebrates the beauty of the human body.
Over the course of 50 minutes the seven dancers will slowly disrobe until they each end up completely naked.
Christine Grimwood, company manager, said: "The piece consists of dancers revolving on plinths that go in different directions and at different speeds.
They start off in quite elaborate costumes and over the course of the performance they strip away layers until they end up like sculptural nudes."
- Strippers in Michigan are being targeted with special work permits and excise fees.
An attorney who has advised the Michigan chapter of the club association expressed concerns about the constitutionality of both aspects of the legislation.
"In regard to the head tax, everyone that has pursued one of these has had it overturned," said Brad Shafer, based in Lansing.
"There are all kinds of constitutional issues - freedom of speech, freedom of association, Fourth Amendment, privacy issues. For it to be lawful, it has to comply with all those constitutional requirements," he said adding that he has played a role in overturning similar licensing laws in other cities, including Louisville, Ky.
- Nudists and naturists are always saying that total nudity is less sexy than the presence of some clothing, and a theatre blogger agrees.
The best – and most erotic – sex scenes in the theatre are often suggestive rather than explicit; they frequently come fully clothed. In Phil Willmott's canny production of Fucking Men, the sex has always just taken place or is about to take place. We never actually see it. In Akhe's Faust at the ICA a couple of weeks ago, Faust's sexual conquest was brilliantly indicated by a tiny spinning top.
- The controversy over an artist who paints nude portraits of his 23 year-old daughter is representative of the confusion in China brought about by the sexual revolution of the past three decades.
- Hugh Jackman declares that he is planning on doing his stint as Oscar host in the nude.
- New Zealanders gathered to celebrate National Naturists' Week.
- A photo of a nude man was projected onto a museum building in Britain to break the taboo of showing the male form.
- After their request for a nude beach was rejected, the Nambucca Valley Nudist Group is continuing their search for a clothing-optional area.
- Backpacker magazine is inviting comments from readers who have hiked in the nude, or would consider doing so.
- Columnist Mark Patinkin doesn't seem to have a problem with all the violence at The Super Bowl, but he's really upset about all the sexy ads.
- Cynthia Manning has been posing as a nude artists' model since 1998.
Everybody has character in their body. There was a model here, she weighed 350 pounds. People clamored for her. You have to figure out where the skeleton is, what the body is doing under the flesh, body type-wise. That’s what you go for, to teach you how to understand human anatomy. Foreshortening is critical. You have to understand a bent leg.
- A blogger attends his first nudist event.
I had the feeling that I was doing something illicit, that I was part of a small group gathering in secret to do something that society tells us not to do. It was a bit nerve-wracking, but exhilarating at the same time. I couldn’t wait to get inside and meet these new people...I had a chance to talk with several members, and they all were friendly and approachable. I wonder if being naked with all these strangers forced me to be more social?
- Meet the best nudism writer in Canada.
After a couple lengths of easy breast stroke, I screw up my courage to talk to some nudists. Dog-paddling naked is one thing, but doing interviews? I had no idea journalism would present such personal challenges.
I survey the pool area. Lee was right, everyone is doing ordinary things. Talking. Swimming. Hugging. Wait -- hugging? Naked?
"Body contact is not a big deal," says Jill, who has asked not to use her real name. "It's not sexual. It's like hugging someone at an office party. 'Hey, Merry Christmas, how have you been?' It's the same."
I begin to worry Jill is going to hug me. She doesn't, but takes a few minutes to tell me why she is a nudist.
"Swimming naked is absolutely wonderful," she says. "It's a bit of who I am and I'm not worried about my body. And it's fun.
"We're not showing off, we're swimming."
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