The Daily Newds

• In France, it appears that the new feminine ideal is nude women in their fifties and sixties.

  Charlotte Rampling, the British actress who lives in France, often appears in magazines with almost as little on as she had in 1973 when Helmut Newton photographed her naked for Vogue. When this edition of the magazine appeared in 1974, it declared her the “sexiest woman in the world”. She may be 61 and a grandmother, but her film and modelling schedules have seldom seemed busier.

• Men participating in the Australian segment of the World Naked Bike Ride have been urged to "wear a sock".
• In the UK, a cleaning business is sending naked women to do the housework.

  Peter Cumming, who runs an electrical business in High Street, said: "I don't think it will go down very well as this is village more for old people. I am quite shocked, I can't see it taking off." But Dave Wainwright, of Wainwright Direct said: "I think it's great. Live and let live is my motto."

• Minneapolis is fighting a local gentlemen's club over nude mannequins in the windows.

  According to city code, sexually oriented businesses cannot display “merchandise or pictures of the products or entertainment on the premises” in the building windows.

• The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that nude dancing is a constitutionally protected form of expression.
• A columnist explains the issue of public breastfeeding in nautical terms.

  It’s been my experience that the vast majority of breastfeeding mothers do not want to put on a display akin to naval vessels refueling at sea. That would be where a very "hungry" small vessel comes alongside a tanker with flags fluttering, signal lights blinking, and bands playing. Shortly thereafter, when both vessels have settled into their appropriate positions, out comes all of the necessary gear, the smaller vessel plugs in, and refueling begins with everyone nearby straining to see what’s going on.

• Fairlady magazine has a wonderful article on the normalization of nudity in the home.

  ...research has found that children who see their parents naked tend to become adults who are more relaxed about their bodies, about nudity and about sexuality. Nudity is accepted as natural in many countries. In Europe, parents routinely bath and undress with their children, and in Japan, the family bath is a communal ritual. In Israel, children romp in the nude at the beach, in France women bare their breasts à la plage and in South Africa, little boys are frequently seen dropping their pants and peeing in the bushes. But in the United States, nudity is equated with sexuality, and nudity between parents and children is frowned upon, as is nudity between children themselves. In a country where many children are sexually abused, people are alert to any act that might imply sexual misconduct.

• A writer points out that one does not have to engage in naked social activities to be a nudist.

  The least we can ask is that after 50-odd years of feigning interest in our friend’s new baby or our co-workers dumb perm, we may be allowed to retire nakedly and in peace. Can’t a guy be a nudist and alone? Is that any weirder than wanting to be naked with your kids and your neighbour’s kids and then playing a couple of rounds of badminton while you’re naked with all these kids?

• At the Sydney Body Art Ride, nobody dared to get completely nude.
• Undercover agents in Ocala, Florida, are protecting the public from naked female nipples.

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