The Daily Newds

• An art gallery in Belfast is inviting the public to get naked in a Finnish sauna exhibit.

  "Socially and culturally it would be a given for a sauna in most other places in the world to be nude, but that's not the set-up in the UK or Ireland." Joanna Karolini said of her work: "I wish a broad audience to use the gallery as a meeting place and the sauna to be a catalyst for social exchange, discussions and a warm platform where other events can take place."

• A non-profit San Francisco art facility is teaching life drawing to people with developmental disabilities.

  Even though the representation and study of the nude figure is integral to art and a staple of art education, LeighAnn Martin, who curated the show, says the artists at Creativity Explored initially were uncomfortable working with live nude models. She says, “This population tends to be very protected from sexuality and nudity, so just to feel OK about drawing someone naked was huge.”

• Prostitutes in Mumbai are learning about condoms and STDs through the exhibits in a sex museum.

  "At first, sex workers coming to the museum are shy. But slowly they discover new things about something they thought they knew all about," said Manish Pawar, a health worker who has brought hundreds of prostitutes and their clients to the museum.

• For Valentine's Day, here is an article with every Viagra joke and anecdote ever told.
• A Bostonian who performs under the name Black Betty styles herself after fifties pin-up icon Bettie Page.

  Pinup models like herself who have stepped into Page's high heels -- if not literally, metaphorically -- are self-consciously sexy, says Langer. But they're not relying on nudity to establish their appeal. "You don't have to be naked to be sexy," she says. "Pinups don't have to be a size-zero, either. I have curves. I'll never be in a New York fashion runway show. That's OK."

• An appeals court in Florida has upheld the prosecution of two teenagers who photographed each other engaged in sexual activity, reasoning that "the statute was intended to protect minors … from their own lack of judgment."
• "The Insider" on CBS is uncovering the truth behind naked college parties.

  So why are these kids so comfortable being naked? Are the sexually charged messages from Hollywood having an impact?Sex therapist Chris Fariello doesn't think so. He says the parties are just a vehicle for them to rebel against society's views of nudity and sexuality. "I think people aren't going to these parties because they want to experience others. I think they're going to express themselves and this is a great way for them to come out of their shell or express side of them they don't normally get to express may never get another chance like that," said Fariello.

• A former Boca Raton educator made more money posing nude for Playboy than she did as a history teacher.
• A Body Art Fashion Festival was held on the streets of Kiev.
• A female sex blogger has some serious body image issues.

  ...I still wince every time I think about a man getting anywhere near me, or laying his eyes on me in anything but a fur-lined, multi-layer, hooded and masked snow suit. The humiliation that would come otherwise feels like a recurring nightmare.

• Fashion models suffer from low self-esteem and loneliness.

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