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Paris Festival Unveils 'Feminist' Pornos 

Intellectuals welcome back erotica

Oct 12, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A group of French intellectuals is staging Paris’ first pornographic film festival in an attempt to integrate hardcore erotica into mainstream cinema, the Guardian reports. Many argue the "feminism-friendly" videos are revolutionary, despite names like Strap-on Motel and Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls. "For women it can be a sort of... More »

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feminism • France • nudity • pornography • Paris

 LiLo Turns Down Playboy 

Lohan won't pose nude again

Sep 5, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan has turned down an offer to pose for a $700,000 topless photo shoot for Playboy's 55th anniversary issue, the New York Post reports. The mag's creative directors had hoped she'd pose in tribute to '60s sexpot Ann-Margret and her film Kitten With a Whip, but her rep... More »

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nudity • Lindsay Lohan • celebrity • Playboy

 Swimmer Takes
 Fur Protest to Beijing 

American is first athlete to protest at Games, but display is low-key

Aug 6, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amanda Beard became the first athlete to protest at the Olympic Games today, revealing a huge nude photo of herself outside the athlete’s village in Beijing. Eschewing Darfur or Tibet, the US swimmer blasted fur clothing in the ad for PETA. “The Olympics are a great forum for... More »

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nudity • 2008 Beijing Olympics • fur • PETA • Olympic protests • Amanda Beard

 Is Stripping
 Performance Art?

Iowa courts must question 'art center' nude loophole

Jul 28, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iowa doesn't have all-nude strip clubs—but it does have performing arts centers where women dance naked. Now the loophole in the state's public indecent exposure law that allows nude dancing at "art centers" is under attack in Hamburg (pop. 1,200), reports the AP. More »

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Iowa • art • nudity • strip club • stripping • stripper

 New Yorkers Bullish 
 on Bare Market 

Naked dining, yoga and comedy keep Big Apple residents cool

Jul 21, 08 2:17 PM CDT
(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”—... More »

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New York City • nudity • yoga • trend • public nudity

 Court Tosses Super Bowl Fine 

Federal panel says FCC acted capriciously with $550K penalty

Jul 21, 08 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court today threw out the FCC $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s infamous 2004 “wardrobe malfunction.” The decency watchdogs were found to have acted arbitrarily in changing their policy of not punishing fleeting nudity, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The court separately said... More »

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television • FCC • nudity • indecency • Janet Jackson • Justin Timberlake • wardrobe malfunction

OPINION

 New Swimsuits
 Unfair; Stick to
 Birthday Suits 

Time to bring back Olympic tradition of competing naked, says columnist

Jul 8, 08 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - No sporting record lasts forever, but these days, writes Bloomberg columnist Scott Soshnick, athletes are demolishing them with almost ridiculous frequency. At the US Olympic swimming trials this year, no fewer than nine records were broken or equaled—a function less of talent than of technology. Perhaps it's time to... More »

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nudity • 2008 Beijing Olympics • swimming • athletics • Speedo LZR Racer • swimsuit

 Famous Nudie Beach Under Fire 

Clothed, clothed fire

Jun 17, 08 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sunbathers at one of the nation’s most famous nude beaches may be forced to put their clothes on, the AP reports. South Cove in Vermont is considered destination traveling for nudists, but locals are petitioning for a town ordinance against nudity. “It’s about common public decency,”... More »

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nudity • Vermont • petition • public nudity

 Construction
 Oglers Get
 an Eyeful 

Workers' whistles drive woman to bare all

May 23, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some wolfish construction workers got an eyeful of a sheep without clothing, the New Zealand Herald reports, when a female Israeli tourist apparently fed up with their whistling got naked as she used an ATM in downtown Kerikeri. "She gave the explanation that she had been pestered by New... More »

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tourism • nudity • sexism • New Zealand • ATM • public nudity


 Vt. Town Sheds
 Inhibitions, Puts
 Them Back On 

Fine instated after repeated nude incidents

May 19, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whether shopping, bicycling, hula-hooping, or demonstrating for PETA, people in Brattleboro, Vt., have witnessed a rash of nakedness, the Wall Street Journal reports. Public nudity is generally legal in Vermont, but a spontaneous act of nakedness by three 20-year-olds two summers ago sparked a trend that made many residents uncomfortable... More »

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nudity • Vermont • indecent exposure • PETA • legislature • Brattleboro, Vt. • fine • public nudity

analysis

Male Nudity? Cue the Nervous Laughter

Comedies tap into America's 'adolescent reaction' to full frontal

May 11, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Penises are in the Hollywood spotlight these days, with both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the new Harold & Kumar offering full-frontal male nudity. They’re guaranteed to get a nervous laugh because there’s still an uncomfortable shock to seeing one on the big screen, writes Laura Hodes in the... More »

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film • nudity • Judd Apatow • penis • movies • Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay • Sarah Marshall

Bill Would Defend Troops From Incoming Playmates

Playboy way off base, says proposed ban

Apr 23, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Republican lawmaker wants to keep America's fighting men and women out of harm's way—the harm he says is caused by exposure to incoming copies of Playboy and Penthouse. The Military Honor and Decency Act sponsored by Georgia congressman Paul Broun would tighten existing laws to prevent the magazines... More »

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nudity • pornography • Department of Defense • Penthouse • Playboy • Paul Broun • Military Honor and Decency Act • Resale Activities Board of Review • Bob Guccione

 Naked Truth in Cheney Shades? 

The web wonders if the VP is looking at a naked woman rather than fly fishing

Apr 11, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who famously shot his hunting partner may have another leisure-sport scandal on his hands—this time involving the image of a naked woman. Bloggers are obsessively analyzing a close-up photo released by the White House of Dick Cheney fly fishing, because of racy image that appears to be... More »

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blogosphere • Dick Cheney • weird • nudity • photography • fishing

 LiLo Going
 Full Frontal
 for $40K 

Lohan asks to bare all in upcoming movie

Apr 10, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan wants to bare the full monty in an upcoming flick where she's making a paltry $40,000 to play a nymphomaniac waitress. The sex scene only required a topless shot but she asked for the direction change so she could prove she was a "mature actress,"... More »

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independent film • nudity • Lindsay Lohan • Los Angeles • celebrity • acting career

 'Potter' Star to
 Bare All on
 Broadway 

Equus starts 22-week run in New York
in September

Apr 9, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will strip down for American audiences on Broadway in a challenging dramatic role that has already wowed Brits. In a major departure from his famous boy wizard role, the 18-year-old stars in the dark psychosexual drama Equus as a troubled adolescent accused of blinding horses.... More »

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Harry Potter • theater • nudity • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus • West End theater

 Pam Bares All for
 Hef's Birthday 

Ex-bunny's naked surprise makes turning 82 just fine for Playboy honcho

Apr 7, 08 12:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pamela Anderson's birthday present to Hugh Hefner might have killed your average 82-year-old: The bottle blonde double-D surprised the "stunned" Playboy founder in his hotel room Saturday night with a private, naked lap dance, the Las-Vegas Review-Journal reports. More »

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Las Vegas • nudity • celebrity • birthday • Pamela Anderson • Hugh Hefner

Bruni Greets Journo Topless

Buffy the Sarko-slayer indeed, Daily Mail writer finds

Jan 25, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail's Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • nudity • tabloids • Mick Jagger • Carla Bruni

Nudie Pic Threatens High School Musical

Disney reeling after Hudgens bares all

Sep 10, 07 3:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disney’s squeaky-clean billion-dollar High School Musical franchise has been staggered by an amateur nude photo of star Vanessa Hudgens making the rounds on the internet. So far The Mouse is backing Hudgens, but the shot has been ripped by parents. Hudgens is negotiating for the third Musical installment, but... More »

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Disney Channel • nudity • Disney • High School Musical • High School Musical 2 • Zac Efron • Vanessa Hudgens • nude photo

Iconic Baby, Now a Teen, Feels 'Creepy'

Skinnydipping Nirvana cover boy looks back with mixed feelings

Aug 23, 07 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - One of rock music’s most famous cover subjects is a little leery of his past. Spencer Elden was 3 months old when he appeared naked as a money-grubbing underwater baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind; now he says the photo, on an album that sold tens of millions of... More »

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music • nudity • surfing • Nirvana • platinum records • Spencer Elden • Nevermind

PoshBecks Bare Souls—& More  

Provocative W spread kicks off high-profile move to America

Jul 12, 07 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - They're ripped, stripped and determined to become American idols. Brit soccer superstar David Beckham and his former Spice Girl wife Victoria land in the US on the cover of W Magazine wearing little more than come-on scowls. The delectable duo claim they "like to lock the doors and wander... More »

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nudity • Victoria Beckham • David Beckham • Real Madrid • Simon Fuller

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