The Daily Newds

• A Warren Ohio teacher has been fired after nude photos of him were posted on the Internet and at a local bar without his knowledge.

  " . . .the graphic nature of the nude photographs and the fact that students have been significantly impacted by, have seen or are aware of the nude photographs has undermined Mr. Tripoulas’ ability to return to the classroom and be an effective teacher,’’ according to the resolution, which also states the action was ‘‘conduct unbecoming a teacher and is immoral, unethical, unprofessional and wholly inappropriate."

• The Ocean City Maryland City Council will no longer grant licences to businesses that are "an adult arcade, adult book store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, escort agency, semi-nude model studio or sexual encounter center."
• Grandma is not afraid to show some skin.

  Mary Morris isn't one to put on airs. The gray-haired, 64-year-old grandmother is keeping her newfound celebrity in the advertising world firmly in perspective, even as her nude photo is plastered on a giant billboard in New York's famed Times Square. "Is that really me?" Morris remembers wondering the first time she saw that larger-than-life image a couple months ago.

• In India, the struggle to accept nudity in photography continues.

  Atul Kasbekar, the man behind the annual Kingfisher Calendar, insists nudity is a basic form of human existence. "I don't consider it alarming that nudity has become more acceptable today. In fact I would much rather see a nude form of fine art than the obscene music videos that are constantly aired on television. I find a human body very beautiful to look at," he says...However not everybody is as unequivocal as Kasbekar about nudity in photography. According to noted Mumbai photographer Daboo Ratnani: "Personally nudity is not acceptable to me. As a photographer, nudity appeals to me only when it is shot aesthetically. Moreover, such work must have a purpose. I don't subscribe to the idea of using nude photography for making money or gaining unnecessary mileage. If done for an exhibition, portfoilo or some other artistic purpose, then it's ok. But if nude pictures are meant to be published in the media, then a distinction has to be made between what is aesthetic and what is not."

• The City Council of Palm Bay Florida is seeking to regulate adult businesses and prohibit public nudity, and in Orlando strippers are now allowed to touch themselves.
• Sadly, a Rubenesque woman does all she can to hide her beautiful curves.

  Loose clothing – on a windless day, at least – will disguise an ample tummy, but in the bedroom there's no running away from it. So I suck my stomach in, walking about the bedroom in bust-out, bum-in style and feeling as if any minute now my old headmistress will present me with a deportment badge. My husband, vaguely noticing something different about my gait, once asked if I have sciatica. Actually, one thing I find really works – something I can recommend to all those women who feel too fat, or at least too unhappy with themselves, to appear naked in front of their partner – is marrying a shortsighted man.

• A Sacramento State student feels that women who are getting breast implants are just following a temporary trend.

  We need to stop focusing on the unrealistic standards, and notice the natural beauty of an individual. Sophomore nursing major Katie Haakenson agreed."I used to be really self conscious about (my breasts), but then my boyfriend made me realize how hot I was," she said. "When a girl is hot, then her breasts will be hot too."

• There is a kerfuffle in Australia over drug-testing of high school athletes - not because of the actual testing, but the fact that the boys have to pee into a cup in full view of officials.

  TIM HAWKES (Headmaster of King's School): It can be, I think, potentially quite a traumatic experience for a child to have to strip down naked in front of strange people with, you know, all the duress of officialdom around them.

• Bahamian resort workers might strike in order to avoid serving gay and nudist tourists.

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