The Weekend Newds

• The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that towns that wish to ban nude dancing must first provide evidence of negative secondary effects. In other words, simply saying that adult entertainment is bad for property values or causes an increase in sex crimes is not enough, there must be proof.
• Are more women breastfeeding their children until they are toddlers? Evidence seems to suggest it's true.

  "Nursing an older child is no longer uncommon, but women know people today tend to be judgmental and feel free to share their opinions," says Heather Bingham of Arlington, a La Leche leader for nine years. Gail Levy, an international board-certified lactation consultant with the Center for Early Relationship Support at Jewish Family and Children's Services, says she sees more women weaning after 12 months. "We call these women 'closet nursers,' " says Dr. Ruth Lawrence , a pediatrician who specializes in infant nutrition at the University of Rochester. Lawrence, who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' section on breast-feeding, helped write the academy's 2005 position statement that reaffirms breast-feeding for at least a year and "beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child." The World Health Organization's recommendation, adopted in 1979, is for a minimum of two years.

• New Hampshire high school students published a sex edition of their newspaper to deal with mature issues such as homosexuality, anal sex and masturbation, but it's the parents that are having the maturity problems.

  The newspaper is not reviewed in advance of publication by administrators. The school board has not discussed the controversy in a public meeting, but parent Paula Wood, of Seabrook, said she wants it on the agenda for the next one. Zito told her it would have to be discussed in a closed session because it might involve personnel issues, but Wood said she asked the superintendent to hold a public meeting. "I don't want to discuss personnel," Wood said. "I want to discuss the paper. "I thought it was a vile, disgusting piece of pornography I wouldn't want to be in front of children, let alone paid for by taxpayers."

• A first grade student in Pennsylvania was suspended for one day because he showed classmates a cartoon image of Paris Hilton in her underwear. The responsibility lies with the school for letting children have free access to the Internet, give the kid a break.
• The ICANN has voted down the proposal for creating an XXX domain for porn sites.
• An erotic art exhibit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, hopes to exploit and overcome the shock value.

  According to a press release, the juried art show promises to open a dialogue about the slippery differences between naked and nude, between tasteless and tasteful. Ultimately, the artwork flirts with the age-old definition of pornography."Perceptions of human sexuality and the figurative human form are constantly changing," said Casey Kasparek, another of the show's curators. "Every time you approach something, you're a different person than you were the last time you saw it."

• Byron and Kay McAllister have launched a series of murder mystery novels set in a nudist camp.

  And yes, I was also curious about the word “nudist.” I’ve known these folks for over 20 years, visited in their home, interviewed them for a long-ago story about student exchanges to exotic lands. Was it possible that these very professorial people were nudists? In Montana? When I talked to them about the first book, they quickly erased those naughty images from my voyeuristic mind. They’d never been near a nudist camp, they said—they researched everything about “naturists” (as nudists prefer to be known) on the Internet.

• Is erotic art becoming mainstream?

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