The Daily Newds

• A University of Georgia student writes about her experience trying out for Playboy magazine.

  Mr. Rams let me disrobe in the bathroom. When I came out, he wasn't ready yet, which made the whole episode a bit surreal. There I was baring my yoo-hoo while making small talk with a complete stranger. Do you have many schools to visit after this? South Carolina? How nice. Oh, by the way, I'm buck naked.

• A writer concludes that $11 for 15 minutes in a Budapest bath was worth the expense.

  You will be urged to strip naked in front of God and everyone. A man, wearing only a poorly placed loincloth, will slap the table and motion for you to lie down. This man will then beat you senseless. That is, when he is not slathering your very naked body with enormous amounts of cheap, drugstore-caliber body lotion. You will then be poked which is your cue to flip over. You will be offered no towel to cover your private parts, and it is at that point one of your masseur/dungeon master's buddies will stop in for a friendly chat, which does not mean that the massage stops. It just means your guy is a skilled multitasker. You'll then get hosed down to within an inch of your life, and you won't know it's all over until you get slapped on your hind parts, which is some sort of ancient code for "get up, you, there are other customers waiting."

• A University of Western Ontario student tries hard to understand a society where everything is sexalized, yet simple non-sexual nudity is still shocking.

  So why are we so offended by nudity? And why are these women using their bodies for shock value? Granted, it’s at their disposal when nothing else really is, but why has it become their weapon of choice? I can’t answer these questions. I can’t even come close to offering a proper solution. But when everyone around you is having sex — as they should; it’s instinctual — one would think celebrities flashing their sexual organs wouldn’t shock us so much. We have become so disconnected from our corporeality that it’s strange to see someone else’s body — let alone genitalia. From sweating to secreting, there’s something wrong and shameful about every little function.

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