The Daily Newds

• Venus in a burqa? The Louvre museum of Paris is lending its name and collection to a museum in Abu Dhabi, but no nudes.
• The Indian government is ratcheting up its censorship activities to protect the public from evils such as bare breasts or Paris Hilton videos. Critics of the policy say that the country is becoming a "nanny state".
• The Broadway show "Spring Awakening" brings teenage sexuality to the Great White Way. "Our culture in general has a real acceptance and even love of violence and a real fear of sexuality that is troubling, and that is one of the things 'Spring Awakening' addresses."
• Will Homeland Security come out with a color-coded alert system to warn of potential nipple attacks? Police are cracking down on this year's Mardi Gras in San Luis Obispo.

  And public nudity will once again be outlawed for the same time period, as police hope to keep women from baring their breasts for Mardi Gras beads — a practice thought to help incite crowds. Flashers face a $100 fine. Public nudity is not against the law through the rest of the year, unless it is connected with a lewd or lascivious act.

• Hugh Hefner has published The New Bedside Playboy: A Half Century of Amusement, Diversion & Entertainment in an effort to further convince the millions of sexually-frustrated boys who masturbated to the images in his magazine that is was really all about the sophistication and not the titties.
• After baring all on screen for The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol is in demand for more movie roles. When asked if the nudity was worth it, she replied, "Yeah. I believe in what Bettie believed in, like, "What’s the big deal?""
• Full-frontal Homer? D'oh! The Simpsons movie might contain nudity.

  "I will say this — we have things in the movie that you can't do on TV," Groening says. "There may be some nudity. It may be people you want to see naked. It may be people you don't want to see naked. But you will see things that you've never seen before."

• Looking for a nude fundraising calendar? Someone has taken a lot of time to list them all here.
• Australia's nude sporting festival has been postponed due to wild weather.
• Good naked, or bad naked? The Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase hits New York with nudity.
• The Naturist Action Committee has an advisory on Florida House Bill 269, which could be unfriendly to naturists. No action is recommended at this time.
• For Valentine's Day, consider giving the "Let's Get Bear Naked" Teddy Bear.
• Young Dakota Fanning plays a child rape victim in her upcoming film "Hounddog", and the radical right is trying to paint the actress as the real victim. Fanning appears partially nude in the movie, and when asked about the controversy, she said this:

  “There are so many children that this happens to, every second,” she added. “That’s the sad part. If anyone’s talking about anything, that’s what they should be talking about.”

• How will Indiana University students celebrate a Colts victory in The Super Bowl? Why, by getting naked and running around campus, of course!

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