The Weekend Newds

• Dear Abby advises a woman with a frequently nude neighbor to photograph him and report him to the police. It apparently never occurred to the woman, or Ms. Abby, to simply knock on the man's door and ask him to be more discreet.
• For photographer George Steeves, his Nova Scotia gallery exhibit of nudes is not about arousing prurient interest in the viewer.

  "I happen to know what pornography is and this does not look like that," says Steeves. "There’s not much a person would find titillating in here." "A lot of people when they confront the eroticized nude assume they are looking at pornography," says Jenkner. But these are images "principally about the desires and fantasies of real people — not models — who find they achieve expression in these photographs. They are not meant to engage the desire of the viewer in a prurient fashion." If anything, (curator Ingrid) Jenkner says, the sexual desire of the people in the photographs is stronger than that in the viewer, which is disturbing. "There is lots of information to help people establish a context," she says, adding that an exhibit about gender and sexuality suits a university dedicated to women’s issues. "If you don’t like to be shocked or surprised, don’t come in here."

• William Saletan at Slate takes a look at the backscatter x-ray machines that virtually strip people naked for the sake of security. He concludes that we lost our innocence on 9/11, and now we are losing our modesty.
• A Florida Christian church is holding a fundraising concert in the parking lot of a strip club.

  "I'm absolutely accepting the fact that we're going to get flak," said the Rev. Nathan Monk, 22, pastor of the small church located in an office strip at 422 N. Palafox St., next to the Downtown YMCA. "But Jesus got flak when he hung out with the tax collectors and prostitutes. A strip club has nothing on what He dealt with."

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