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New Yorkers Bullish on Bare Market

Posted Jul 21, 08 2:17 PM CDT in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Naked dinner, yoga in the buff and comedy clubs au naturel are turning the Big Apple into Nude York City, the New York Post reports. One New Yorker rents out restaurants for monthly nude dinner parties—the motto for a group often numbering 50 is “no hot soup”—while a midtown studio has a devoted following for its twice-weekly naked yoga classes.

"The first time I tried comedy naked, it was the best thing ever," said Andy Ofiesh, founder of the Naked Comedy Showcase, where audience members are also encouraged to strip. "It gives you a kind of vulnerability that puts the audience on your side straight away."

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