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Need a Vacation? World's Top 5 Nude Events

Nude Recreation Week is celebrated this month

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 26, 2009 3:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – To mark the 32nd year of Nude Recreation Week, TripAdvisor has put together a list of the top five nude events worldwide, Reuters reports:

  1. World Naked Bike Ride, worldwide, June and July: Riders, advocating cycling over driving, often paint messages on their bodies.
  2. World Record Skinny Dip, across North America, July: This event, hosted by the American Association for Nude Recreation, made “largest number of people skinny dipping at once” a Guinness Book category. The number? More than 12,000.

  1. Nude Beach Olympics, Australia, January: The games celebrate Maslin Beach’s place as first official nude beach down under.
  2. Running of the Nudes, Spain, July: PETA hosts this event in Pamplona to protest the cruelty of bullfighting—runners, though mostly naked, don bull horns.
  3. Burning Man, Nevada, August and September: 50,000 people come together in the Black Rock Desert to create art, and free-spirited participants often strip down.

Participants ride their bikes during the World Naked Bike Ride in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008.
Participants ride their bikes during the World Naked Bike Ride in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)
Fans skinny-dipping in Filippini Pond during the Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York, 15th-17th August 1969.
Fans skinny-dipping in Filippini Pond during the Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York, 15th-17th August 1969.   (Getty Images)
Raymond LaFountaine and Sonia Laverdure, both of Magog, Quebec, sunbathe at Southwest Cove on Lake Willoughby, Friday, June 7, 2008, in Westmore, Vt.
Raymond LaFountaine and Sonia Laverdure, both of Magog, Quebec, sunbathe at Southwest Cove on Lake Willoughby, Friday, June 7, 2008, in Westmore, Vt.   (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
A pair of Washington, DC police officers watch protester Erin Maupin, part of a group of topless protesters, outside the Spanish Embassy June 6, 2006 in Washington, DC.
A pair of Washington, DC police officers watch protester Erin Maupin, part of a group of topless protesters, outside the Spanish Embassy June 6, 2006 in Washington, DC.   (Getty Images)
Burning Man participants get ready to ride in the Critical Titts event on the playa at the Burning Man festival in Gerlach, Nev., on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007.
Burning Man participants get ready to ride in the Critical Titts event on the playa at the Burning Man festival in Gerlach, Nev., on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007.   (AP Photo/Brad Horn)
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BamaPolyBiGuy1
Aug 18, 2009 4:00 AM CDT
Living in Alabama, well, I can't say you're wrong that the U.S. (and the South) in particular allow a bunch of prudes to run the country. Heck, a while back people who sold dildos were arrested for breaking the law.
Derni
Jul 27, 2009 12:30 PM CDT
This might raise a few eyebrows in the sexually repressed USA-I mean-just yesterday one state-ALABAMA -said they were not going to sell a certain wine since it has a label with a nude female on it-the nude was frompic was shot from the back-and nude art is always a No No in the USA-I like canada and Europe-they're much more comfortable with their bodies and sexuality-no big deal-noi guilt no sin-
memphibian
Jul 27, 2009 11:38 AM CDT
We have big statues of seminude women holding scales in front of courthouses in which smallminded judges fine us for - going topless. memphis dan www.lifecast-art.com

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