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NEWS ABOUT: public nudity

public nudity stories: 18 news summaries

 40% Bare Is 
 How Women 
 Best Attract Men 

But too much flesh smacks of infidelity

Nov 19, 09 4:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Researchers have discovered that women who bare 40% of their body are the most effective at attracting males. Female scientists studied women at a popular nightclub, and placed percentage values on how much skin they exposed. A bare arm counted for 10%, a leg 15% and so on. They found... More »

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nudity • sex • indecent exposure • nightclub • attraction • dating • public nudity • sexual attraction

Boulder Cops Nix Naked Halloween Streak

Wacky local tradition draws big crowds, annoys authorities

Oct 31, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Killjoy cops in Boulder, Colo., plan to shut down the town's annual naked Halloween run tonight, dispatching 40 police officers to the four-block course, backed up, believe it or not, by SWAT teams. Tolerated for nearly a decade, the run aroused police ire last year when the ranks of streakers,... More »

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nudity • ACLU • Halloween • public nudity • Boulder, Colo.

 Need a Vacation? 
 World's Top 5 
 Nude Events 

Nude Recreation Week is celebrated this month

Jul 26, 09 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
... More »

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travel • nudity • public nudity • skinny dipping • nude • nudist • nudism • naked • nude beach

(Newser) - A Connecticut man was arrested Monday after showing up for a dental appointment 5 days late and completely naked, the Connecticut Post reports. The man quickly fled the office when his arrival elicited screams from a female receptionist. Police caught up with him at his home, where he claimed... More »

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crime • indecent exposure • Connecticut • dentists • public nudity • nude • naked

(Newser) - It’s quaint, relatively cheap, breakfast is included in the price, and oh yes, everyone’s naked. Welcome to Hylteberga gård, one of the first naturist bed and breakfasts in Europe. Helena Frith Powell of the UK Times took a holiday there, and found it a tad …... More »

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travel • Sweden • public nudity • nudist • naturism • nudism

Disney Axes Boob Screeners as Fewer Flash Splash Mountain

Women keep shirts on, editors lose theirs

May 6, 09 4:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A decline in breast-baring has triggered job cuts at Disneyland, reports the Orange County Register reports. Disney is axing photo editors tasked with screening out photos of people flashing cameras that snap automatically on Splash Mountain and three other rides. The photos are posted for sale at kiosks at ride... More »

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Disney World • nudity • Disney • amusement parks • Disneyland • public nudity

 German Hotel 
 Is a Strip Joint 

Naturists want it to be family-friendly lodging

Apr 2, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Germany's first mandatory-nudity hotel hasn't even opened yet, but management is laying down the law: Towels must be placed wherever guests sit. The Black Forest resort's clothing ban is an oddity even in Germany, a hotbed of naturism for over a century, reports the Times of London. In fact, clothing... More »

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travel • Germany • hotel • public nudity • nudist • naturism • nudism



 Nude Hikers Shock 
 Sleepy Swiss Town 

Deep in the Alps, a village encounters influx of naked visitors

Mar 17, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Appenzell is a remote, conservative town in the Swiss Alps; it has just 5,600 residents, makes famed cheese, and finally awarded women the right to vote in 1990. Yet in recent years, a growing number of Swiss and foreign visitors have taken to hiking through the mountains wearing nothing... More »

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nudity • Switzerland • hiking • Alps • public nudity • hikers

 Execs Aim to Tame Rowdy 
 SF Race 

Organizers move to make revelers straighten up in Party Town, USA

Mar 7, 09 6:25 PM CST
(Newser) - San Francisco, the “City That Knows How,” is notoriously adept at throwing hedonistic events—but it also knows how to fight to keep them, the Los Angeles Times reports. Protesters are fuming at the organizers of the annual Bay to Breakers footrace, who want to ban nudity and... More »

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California • San Francisco • alcohol • protesters • public nudity

 'Pumpkin Streaker' 
 Cops a Plea in Colo. 

Student, one of 12, will do community service, avoid sex-offender status

Dec 19, 08 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - A University of Colorado student who ran through a pedestrian mall naked except for a pumpkin on her head on Halloween agreed yesterday to a plea deal, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. The 20-year-old will do 6 months of probation and 8 hours of community service, and will not have... More »

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crime • nudity • court • University of Colorado • Colorado • Halloween • public nudity • Boulder • pumpkins

They're Naked, and Not Going to Take It Anymore

Paris' nude life models strike—in the buff—to demand better pay

Dec 16, 08 8:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Paris is notorious for constant protests by striking workers, but yesterday the French capital witnessed an uncommon work action: dozens of nude life models who braved freezing temperatures—naked—to demand a pay increase. As the Guardian reports, the models took to the street and re-created Delacroix's Liberty Leading ... More »

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France • art • nudity • Paris • model • strike • protesters • public nudity

 Woman Charged 
 With Buff Bartending 

Second recent naked incident in suburban St. Louis

Oct 22, 08 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lowered inhibitions aren’t uncommon in bars, but one in suburban St. Louis has been having trouble keeping its female bartenders clothed, the Alton (Ill.) Telegraph reports. Something strange is going on around Alton, where Jamie Day, 24, was charged Friday with bartending in the nude—the area’s... More »

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nudity • bars • public nudity

Naked Lunch? Maine Town Strips Diner
of Booze

Locals unamused by skinny dip sandwich

Oct 3, 08 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Maine restaurant has been denied a liquor license over a promotion that encourages skinny dipping in a nearby lake, the Bangor Daily News reports. The offer promised a free sandwich to any diner intrepid enough to strip and take the plunge behind the Black Frog Restaurant. After numerous... More »

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restaurant • Maine • promotion • sandwich • public nudity • Bangor • liquor license • skinny dipping

 Naked NY Man Falls 
 to Death After Cops' Taser 

Stunned suspect falls to his death from fire Brooklyn escape

Sep 25, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A naked man fell to his death yesterday in Brooklyn after police fired a Taser at him, the New York Post reports. The man, 35-year-old Iman Morales, had been ranting on a second-story fire escape. His mother begged police not to hurt him, saying he was sick, but when Morales... More »

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NYPD • police • Brooklyn • Taser • police brutality • public nudity

 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

 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

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