The Daily Newds

• Dove soap is challenging society's perception of aging by featuring images of nude over-50 women in an advertising campaign.

  Mirinete Morrison, aged 54, from London who has three daughters aged 18, 24 and 26, said: "You have to be happy in yourself. "If your heart is beautiful, your skin is beautiful, you are beautiful."

• According to historian Jeffrey Hurwit, ancient Greek art depicting the nude figure might have been more accurate a representation of everyday life than previously thought.

  Hurwit's newly published research shows that the Greeks did walk around in the buff in some situations. Men strode about free of their togas in the bedroom and at parties called symposia, where they would eat, drink and carouse. Nudity was also common on the athletic fields and at the Olympic games.

• A juried art show in Oregon called "The Art of Breastfeeding" seeks to shed light on "the gift of health".

  "There are lots of images out there of formula feeding; it's so common it doesn't even register with people," (Pat) Lewis says. "But there are no images of breastfeeding in the public venue ... the images may be out there, but we don't see them. It's not in the social psyche."

• A man in the UK has posed nude to raise awareness of testicular cancer.
• A Dutch gym is offering "Naked Sunday" for people who like to exercise in the nude. The response has been overwhelming, both positive and negative.
• The Post Office has censored postcards featuring artistic nude images of dancer Josephine Baker, mailed by her step-son.

  "I'm a little bit sad that in the year 2007 such a beautiful, exquisite water color cannot be shown," said Baker.

• The National Pork Board is trying to stop a woman from using the slogan "The Other White Milk" to promote breastfeeding.
• Portland artist Brenda Dunn is obsessed with drawing the nude female figure.

  In contrast to the fashion and entertainment's images of waiflike and anorexic women, Dunn consciously portrays women with voluptuous and healthy bodies. Unlike the countless passive and vulnerable nudes painted by men over the history, Dunn's women are always bold and powerful. In the end, Dunn believes being a woman in your own body is what it's all about, and just being secure is totally empowering.

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