The Daily Newds

• A Wisconsin support group is helping women to overcome the societal obstacles to breastfeeding.

  Many of the mothers currently attending the support group share their opinions on breastfeeding in public, Bolgrihn said. If first-time breastfeeding mothers feel nervous and ashamed to breastfeed their baby in public, (Kathy) Bolgrihn said a good way to overcome that worry is just to breastfeed in public.

• A Davie Town Council candidate in Florida is under a cloud of controversy because he owns a web site promoting nudism, with links to pornographic material.

  "He is an elected committeeman. The last time I checked, running nude Web sites is not a rationale for removal from the post," said Broward Democratic Chairman Mitch Ceasar.

• Ryan Seacrest has spoken out in support of American Idol contestant Antonella Barba, who had some nude photos of herself released to the Internet by an acquaintance.

  "I do feel like it's a little disgusting — I think the right word is 'tacky' — for someone to do that," Seacrest told The Showbuzz. "These things, they were taken at a time that (was) a private moment. It was something between her and somebody close to her. It was meant for them and not for us. And it's someone trying to take advantage of someone else, and this contestant is trying to make it in a mainstream show and do her thing."

• The L. A. Opera is staging a version of Wagner's "Tannhauser" that shows more than just a little skin.

  American opera companies are, for the most part, demure when it comes to depicting the sex and violence so central to opera plots. So it's always news when a bit of skin gets flashed. This time, it's more than a bit, but don't come looking for the fully monty; bared female breasts and some essentially nude backsides are the extent. The simulated sex, though, is more explicit. Without going into too much detail, let's just say that little is left to the imagination.

• Indonesia has lightened the wording in its anti-pornography legislation.

  (House of Representatives Speaker Agung)Laksono said the draft had been revised to take into account cultural traditions and local sensitivities. "In places like Bali and Papua, bare-breasted women are a daily sight. If such things are banned it will be against local customs," he said.

• Is America developing a healthier attitude when it comes to body image?

  "I believe there's a real movement nationally to celebrate plus-sized women," says BJ Towe, executive editor of Figure, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-sized women. "I do think the American media is starting to realize this is who their audience is. That they're not all waif-thin."

• A Wilkes-Barre singer likes to bare more than just his soul when performing.

  (Vocalist Timur) Maskayev, in past bands, has been known for something other than just his vocals and stage presence: full frontal nudity, thus crossing the line that very few artists dare to cross. Crossing that line has caused a few shows with former bands to be shut down by the venue. Maskayev does not know if, with Sun Up/ Sun Down, he will go as far as to take it all off, but the band does have plans to do something even more disturbing. “The whole band plans on wearing women’s underwear and growing out our mustaches” said Maskayev. “Seriously, we are.”

• A new play to be staged in West Virginia looks at what can happen to our society if the government continues to legislate morality.

  Lonesome Hollow, a world premiere by Lee Blessing - A sober look into a “soonish” future where sex offenders are quarantined in mysterious penal colonies, where nude photographers are exiled along with brutal pedophiles, and all struggle to understand the new rules of crime and punishment under a government given extreme powers of authority.

• A bill in Kansas that would allow the prosecution of teachers for "obscenity" has stalled in the House.

  And Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, said passing such legislation would create new image problems for Kansas, which already faced international ridicule over the State Board of Education's past decisions to adopt anti-evolution science standards. "It's just one more way that some of these right-wingers are trying to control the agenda in schools, so only books they want to be read will be read," Sawyer said. "We don't need to be burning books in Kansas."

• A female animal rights activist jumped naked onto the catwalk of a Paris fashion show.

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