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Streaky breakdown
This is a good time for the Government to bury bad news. And here it is: Streakers at sporting events are likely to become a thing of the past, with anyone who intentionally exposes their genitals in public facing up to two years in jail More...
This book is not erotic
In Paul Rapoport's book-lined office, you're struck by two things. First, the tall black sculpture resembling a watering can on acid. Second, the fact that this leading Canadian nudist has gone "textile." More...Protestors go topless for medical marijuana
SAN FRANCISCO -- A protest of a different sort in San Francisco had people nearly baring it all. A small group stripped off their shirts to make their stand against Attorney General, John Ashcroft. More...
Devonish ready to bare all if he wins Olympic crown
Marlon Devonish, winner of the men's 200 metres title at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham on Saturday, runs for the Coventry Godiva club. Godiva, please note. And next year, if he keeps his word, Great Britain's No 1 sprinter this winter could become the city's most celebrated nudist since the great Lady's eleventh century bareback ride. More...A Little Skin From Clinton Crony
Look, if you told us that a former Bill Clinton cabinet member was posing nude for a pin-up calendar, we'd be hard-pressed to pick which pol we'd most like to see in the buff. Reno? Albright? Shalala? Herman? More...
Clothing-free sailings catch on
An unusual batch of cruises is hitting the high seas, and you won't need much time to pack. That's OK. All three sailings are nude, and duds are immaterial. The clothes-free romps have been arranged by Bare Necessities Tour & Travel in Austin, Texas, which has been organizing nude cruises for more than a dozen years. More...Starkers raving mad
HARDY nudists want to bare all on one of Scotland's coldest strips of coast. More...Nudist group fights for local swim nights
Nudists who were using the Newton Wave Pool for popular swim nights are fighting to have their monthly event reinstated after the City of Surrey pulled the plug earlier this year. More...Police field complaint about busty snow woman
Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman -- celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure. And a police officer showed up at her apartment door minutes after she completed her work. More...
Nude peace activists
A nude peace activist holds a Chilean flag with the writing 'No to war,' as others stand by during a protest in downtown Santiago, March 1, 2003. Some 100 peace activists stripped for peace and against a possible U.S.-led attack against Iraq. More...
Children in art - response
Ms. Milroy's article omits crucial words from the Criminal Code that indicate nudity does not imply sexual activity. More...Naked children used to be artistic
We are a long way from the days when naked children were considered the safe stuff in art, writes SARAH MILROY, judging by the troubling questions raised by the work of artists such as Lyla Rye and Sally Mann. More...Official inquiry set in Guard streaking
The investigation into allegations that several National Guard soldiers ran naked outside their barracks Tuesday night will officially begin next week, a Fort Bragg official said Friday. More...Nude child, mother not guilty
Marialice Redmiles is not guilty of breach of peace just because her three and a half year old son was in the front yard naked. More...Japan - Men get naked for a year of good luck
Talk about male bonding! Have you ever gotten together with your buddies, stripped down to your thongs and paraded around the neighborhood? In groups of 10 to 12 people at night? In midwinter? No? Well, get with the program -- men in Okayama have been doing this for 400 years. More...BBC calls off nude interview
A radio interview between veteran DJ John Peel and a nude rights campaigner was called off after the interviewee refused to cover up. More...
CFI at Bridge Opening in Palm Springs, CA
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, ClothesFree International, Inc. took their film crew on a seven hour drive to Palm Springs, CA for the grand opening of the nudist bridge at Desert Shadows Inn. After a long drive and a short nights sleep, the CFI crew was up at the crack of dawn getting ready for what was sure to be a big day for Palm Springs, Desert Shadows Inn, and the entire world of naturism. More...
See The Bridge Opening Ceremony in the 14th Edition of Nudes in the News!Open Bridge - Open Attitudes
Palm Springs -- Clothing-optional wasn't an option Thursday at a rain-soaked opening of the new Lee R. Baxandall Bridge. The so-called "naked bridge" linking the naturist Desert Shadows Inn Resort and Villas on Chaparral Road to its condominiums across Indian Canyon Drive has captured the attention -- and funny bones -- of newscasters and comedians across the country. More...
See The Bridge Opening Ceremony in the 14th Edition of Nudes in the News!Nudist resort basks in publicity
LAND O'LAKES -- Hot off a positive story in the Wall Street Journal, Paradise Lakes, Pasco County's mecca for globe-trotting nudists, stars this week on a national Fox-TV news program. A camera crew representing The Pulse, Fox's 60 Minutes-style news magazine, wrapped up its filming on a cold Saturday in early February. More...House OKs breastfeeding in public places
INDIANAPOLIS -- The House approved 85-9 a measure affirming a woman's right to breastfeed in public in Indiana. "You would think today women would have no trouble breastfeeding in public," said Rep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington. She is a registered nurse and sponsor of House Bill 1510. "And for health reasons we need to encourage women to breastfeed." More...Federation of Canadian Naturists - Naked everywhere!
ANCASTER, ON, Feb. 17 /CNW/ - Boldly, Anecdote Productions has published a large photo book chock full of naked people. But not by hiding certain body parts: this is the "fullest monty"! Incredibly, these people are nude doing everyday things in public with clothed people who hardly notice them. More...Mass nude wedding at Hedonism III
Jamaica's tourist industry is set to find a place in the Guinness Book of World Records soon, following yesterday's Valentine's Day mass nude wedding at Hedonism III Resort in Runaway Bay, St. Ann. Twenty nine nude couples tied the knot, the largest number since the event was started here three years ago. More...
Camp lays bare the rewards of nudism
There's a harsh reality to being a nudist in Washington in the winter. Goose bumps. It's that or wear clothes. And most of the year-round members of the Lake Bronson Club choose the latter, unless the heat's turned up. More...
Naked Ambition
A North dad battling against cancer is eager to pose naked for a new artwork so he can leave a lasting reminder of himself for his family. Paul McGuinness, 45, was among 1000 hopefuls given the once-over yesterday by Angel of the North creator Antony Gormley. More...Council To Peek At Nude Beach
The recent run of fine weather has unveiled a perennial problem on Auckland's North Shore - nude bathers, in particular, naked men on St Leonard's beach just down the hill from Takapuna Grammar School. More...750 women go nude in protest
HUNDREDS of women bared all today in a visual anti-war demonstration on a hillside near the northern NSW beach town of Byron Bay. More than 750 female protesters shed their clothing during the protest, lying naked end to end on a grassy knoll on a private property, to form a heart shape around the words "No War" for an aerial photograph. More...
Cheeky Anti-War Protests
Groups of protesters opposed to war with Iraq have been baring more than their souls in America and Australia. Making their point with what could be described as a display of naked aggression, around 30 women scurried into the heart of New York's Central Park. More...
Shock of the nude
They take their nudity seriously up Byron Bay way, which is probably why this weekend's Reclaim the Bush event - also known as Disrobe to Disarm - is shaping up to be such a roaring success. Singer Grace Knight, a Byron shire local and nationally recognised pop and jazz star, has been mustering support over the past week from women who are frustrated with what seems an inevitable war against Iraq. More...
Disrobe to disarm
Non-political people all over Australia have fired up over Iraq, coming up with all sorts of ways to express their opposition to Australia invading Iraq. Grace Knight, singer and songwriter, saw a photo late last week, put the rest of her life on hold, and got the ball rolling on an anti-war 'action' called DISROBE TO DISARM. More...
Congressman fed up that babies can't nurse in public
When the time comes for Sarah Nickell to breast-feed her 4 1/2 -month-old daughter, Madeline, in public, the first-time mom finds herself breaking into a sweat. "I have this feeling of uncertainty whenever I go out in public," Nickell, 27, said. "You just never know when it's going to be acceptable or not." Nickell's panic attacks may soon be put to rest with the help of a state lawmaker who is pushing a bill through the House to allow women to breast-feed in public. More...Palm Springs set to open nudist bridge
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Venice, Italy, has the Bridge of Sighs. Now Palm Springs has the "bridge of thighs." A pedestrian bridge that will connect two parts of a nudist resort - while crossing over a busy public street - has drawn national attention since construction began last month. More...Police Attack Nude Protesters
Police did what police do best when they violently attacked protesters and bystanders on the last day of the World Social Forum. It started when a Mapuche woman who was attending the WSF and staying at the international youth camp was arrested with charges of "obscene acts" for bathing nude in a river. Activists saw this and organized over 400 people to protest by nonviolently taking their clothes off in solidarity. When the nude protest left the youth camp to march downtown the police attacked. After injuring and arresting some of the the nude protesters the police lashed out at journalists and bystanders. An unknown number of people were hospitalized or arrested as a result of the police assault. . More...
Forbes.com's Top Ten Topless Beaches
In the spirit of a growing trend in clothing-free vacations, Forbes.com takes a look at some of the best topless beaches in the world. More...Kathy Bates is not ashamed in hot tub movie scene
It's the scene that has everybody talking, the "hot tub" moment in "About Schmidt" that is provoking laughs and high-fives among women and hoots and eyeball-rolling among men. More...
Nudists lucrative market for resorts
Central Florida's Pasco County, home to six nudist resorts, has become perhaps the nation's hottest destination for people who would rather be unclothed. More...Musicians see nude calendar as ticket to Carnegie Hall
To help raise the $80,000 or so needed to get to New York in April, 13 women in the orchestra bared almost all in a 2003 calendar that is sailing out of the Cal Poly Technical University bookstore at 10 bucks a pop. More...
Running in the buff good times for Big Green
(U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. -"Completely nonsexual. Comfortable, amusing and jubilant, too!" said Callie Thompson, a student at Dartmouth University. More...Naked Men, Men of Peace
On December 21,2002, near Gainesville, Florida, 22 men posed naked to send a stunning Peace message to the American people and the war administration. Braving the cold, these men from Fort Myers to Gainesville, gathered together on a hillside to do the unthinkable: To Bare it all for Peace. More...Posing for peace - 50 women take it off
Fifty women from Helena reclined nude on a snowy mountaintop Saturday singing John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," all in an artistic effort to profess their opposition to a U.S. war with Iraq. More...Naturist arrested for walking down the street
A naturist arrested for walking down a busy street with no clothes on has turned up at court naked. More...2003 Christian Nudist Convocation
If you feel the Lord's call to serve in this effort in any way, we welcome you. More...Nudist travelers ready for takeoff
Clothes on the Cancún flight will come off at cruising altitude. Miami passengers on a flight to Cancún won't be fretting about dressing comfortably. In fact, they won't be dressed at all. A Houston travel agency specializing in clothing-optional vacations is organizing the outing, which it claims is the first nude flight. But no hanky-panky, please. More...'Naked' bridge work to close road
PALM SPRINGS -- Construction of the city's "naked bridge" will take a big step toward completion on Wednesday. More...Short 'rejects' lone action against Iraq
The UK would not join American unilateral military action against Iraq, according to International Development Secretary Clare Short. More...
Lebanon Antinudity Ordinance Struck Down
LEBANON, Pa. -- The state Supreme Court has struck down Lebanon's efforts to crack down on adult-oriented businesses. More...Naturists to black out pool for swimming sessions
A swimming pool is to be blacked out after fears that passing drivers might be distracted by the sight of naturists swimming. Cambridge City Council is also concerned that pedestrians will be tempted to stare as they walk past. More...
Nude Women Protest War Again
Seeking to "reinvigorate the buzz across the country" from its first photo of women spelling "Peace" with their naked bodies, organizer Donna Sheehan and her group, Unreasonable Women Baring Witness, staged a second, much larger nude peace protest and photo shoot near Point Reyes Station on Sunday. The sandy shore of Drake's Beach, rather than a rain-sogged Love Field in Point Reyes Station, was the venue for some 94 women along with more than two dozen men who created two new and separate signs for peace. More...
Stand and deliver
Australian sculptor Ron Mueck seems destined to earn his place among the greats, writes Bruce James. After years of reclining, slumping, leaning and squatting, Ron Mueck's sculpture is getting to its feet at last. The centrepiece of his Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition is Pregnant Woman, 2002, a monumental standing nude in the full bloom of pregnancy. This authoritarian effigy, purchased before Christmas by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, for more than $800,000, commands her companions in the show to rise from their plinths - or, in the case of Crouching Boy with Mirror, from the gallery floor - and be counted as members of her species. More...
Nude in Northside for New Year
About 25 people in Northside brought in the new year wearing little more than a smile. Cincinnati police reported that the group was seen streaking in the 4000 block of Hamilton Avenue about 12:30 a.m. Officers caught up with two of them. Christine Weaspe, 22 of West Chester, and Adam Vorobok, 19, of Columbia, S.C., were charged with public indecency. Meanwhile, Cincinnati police made five DUI arrests between shortly before midnight New Year's Eve and early this morning. For Dolphus A. Partin, 42, of Cardington, it was his fifth DUI charge in six years. Partin was stopped shortly before 11 a.m. Jan 1 on Interstate 71, just south of the Montgomery Road entrance ramp. Lincoln Heights police reported two DUI arrests. More...Demonstrators draw attention to Iraq conflict by baring it all
Wanna get some attention? Try taking your clothes off. That's what a group of 22 men did in a field near Gainesville last month in a protest against a possible war against Iraq. The men formed the word "PEACE" and a peace sign with their nude bodies, while a photographer snapped photos that were sent to news media outlets worldwide. The bare-it-all demonstration was modeled after a similar protest in California, said Linda Pollini, a Green Party activist who helped organize the event. More...Florida Men Strip for Peace
On December 21,2002, near Gainesville, Florida, 22 men posed naked to send a stunning Peace message to the American people and the war administration. Braving the cold, these men from Fort Myers to Gainesville, gathered together on a hillside to do the unthinkable: To Bare it all for Peace. Deeply troubled by the looming war against Iraq, these serious peace advocates determined to express their heartfelt desire for peace, by crafting the word "PEACE" and the Peace Sign with their nude bodies. These images were captured on film by renowned photojournalist and nature photographer, John Moran. More...
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