The Daily Newds

• A mom and pop nude art gallery in the UK also sells beer.
• A Virginia county wants to impose strict regulations on sexually oriented business with nude and semi-nude employees, even though there are no adult establishments in the area.
• A scavenger hunt at Oberlin College involved a lot of nudity.

  “We spent most of the time at Michigan State. The others were basically stop, get naked, take a picture and leave,” he said. Teammate Herrine explained the fun Demars-Johnson had at MSU, saying he “destroyed one of their Frisbee’s teammates in a drinking contest.”Butche’s Welding decided to try and take it up a notch. Not only did they get naked on other college campuses, but they went for an additional 200 points by trying to persuade other students to get naked with them.

• In a country where even the smallest sexual infraction is vigorously prosecuted, authorities look away when sexual abuse occurs among incarcerated youth.

  Many prison staffers at the West Texas State School complained about the abuse to their immediate bosses and to officials in Austin, the reports say. But, for more than a year, no one in charge did anything to stop it. Evidence was ignored or covered up. Two years after a Texas Rangers investigation concluded, no one has been prosecuted.

• A Florida man has been jailed for posting a nude photo of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet, on charges of publishing unlawful pornography and promoting a sexual performance by a person under 18.
• An Austrian designer being accused of "extraordinary bad taste" for snapping nude photos at the site of a Nazi concentration camp.
• Proposed legislation in Alabama targets nude dancing as well as adult book and novelty stores.

  Commissioner Michael Morgan says he knows he can't outlaw nude dancing all together, but told the Montgomery Advertiser he wants to hamstring business owners to such a degree they "won't fool with offering that stuff here."

• Contrary to popular belief, Rio de Janeiro's carnival is not about sex.

  "Here, nakedness doesn't only lead to sexuality, it leads you to aesthetic appreciation," said Roberto Da Matta, a retired University of Notre Dame sociology professor and author of the book "Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma". "A woman is dancing but it's not pornographic," he said. "It's a collective experience of reconsidering bodies, like at the Olympic Games." Da Matta says his granddaughters watch the nearly nude samba dancers in TV ads during the run-up to carnival, grading them like judges at a gymnastic competition, or in the same way Rio's Samba parade is judged.

• A female student at the University of Waterloo urges others to "give more credit" to strippers.

  I think stripping can be a perfectly acceptable way to make money — if the proper legislation is put in place. It’s really no worse than pin-up posters of sexy men or women — just with a lot less clothing. If the stigma disappears, then hopefully so will the atmosphere of desperation that surrounds stripping and people will choose to strip, as opposed to feeling driven to it. I know that I couldn’t do it — I hate my body way too much — but if you are comfortable enough with your body and sexuality, and are 18 or older, then I don’t really see what the problem is.

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