The Weekend Newds

• Orlando has been celebrating Valentine's week with "Nude Nite" for more than a decade.

  NN isn't just an "art show," it's an "art happening," with nude-themed art, installations, nude living-sculptures, book signings, body painting, music, live-model painting and a ( first-ever) audience-participation "Nude Body Language Test." There's more "happening" than I have room to print, you just have to go.

• A newspaper in New York state has an article about a photography exhibit at a Community College in Albany that focuses on the lack of "controversy" surrounding the nude photos rather than on the art itself. Where's the outrage when you really need it?
• A teenager has been awarded $35,000 because a police officer forced her to do topless jumping jacks after being caught parking with her boyfriend. No word on whether she was given a check, or if the bills were stuffed into her g-string.
• Speaking of topless, an Alabama club owner has been cited for allowing patrons to touch nude male dancers.

  Ida Ruth Bishop, who lives near the area, applauds the action. "We just got rid of that topless bar down the road," she said. "We don't need anything like this out here. It just leads to trouble."

  In other topless news, an exotic club is being proposed for Detroit, and a councilmember in another town is voicing her opposition.

  "I'm afraid one more topless bar in Detroit could create a red light district along Eight Mile Road," she said. "I oppose any attempt to blight our neighborhoods in that area."

  And in Oregon, an effort is being waged to rid the entire state of strip clubs.

  (Julia) Allison said she wants to protect women and neighborhoods by eegulating strip acts. "I want (strip clubs) somewhere far from neighborhoods," she said. "No one wants them in their neighborhood. It brings with it a lot of stuff. People are drinking, doing drugs and littering..."What's at stake here is the ability of Oregonians to decide for themselves what they want to read, see and hear as opposed to letting local government censor what's available," said David Fidanque, the executive director of ACLU of Oregon.

• A man in the UK has become the first known person who has been prohibited from being naked anywhere outside his home.
• What are the effects on women by the unrealistic "quest for perfection" in today's advertising?

  The effects of that are striking. The Dove study found that just 2 percent of women and girls said they would describe themselves as beautiful, while two thirds said they avoided basic activities on days they felt unattractive. Those activities ranged from going to the beach or a party to showing up for work or school—even voicing an opinion.

• An opinion article in an Australian newspaper calls for "free-range nakedness".

  ...Queensland doesn't even have a legal clothes-optional beach; streakers get arrested at the cricket; and while we don't like banning films for violence, we'll yank 'em out of cinemas quick smart if they show too much naked body. This is a shame. Not (just) because humans in their natural state are reliably interesting at worst, but because public nudity could be a free and easy solution, if only in part, to some of the big issues we face. It's not about being naked all the time, but rather having more nakedness in everyday settings.

  The Breast Cancer Society of Canada has turned down a donation from exotic dancers because "its major donors did not support a connection" to the ladies, who raised the funds to honor a dancer who died from breast cancer.

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