The Daily Newds 11/15/07

• A writer seriously wonders if the artists behind Playboy's annual video game pictorial have actually ever seen a naked woman in the flesh. [netjak.com]
• An art installation on the female breast seeks to bring some reality to the way women view themselves and their bodies. [msnbc.com]
• A publisher is trying to end Japan's ban on the importing of images showing human genitalia. [africa.reuters.com]
• Here's an appreciation of Doris Wishman's nudist movie "Hideout in the Sun", which is out on DVD. [popmatters.com]
• A feminist writer in the UK explores how society came to regard the image of a breastfeeding mother as something obscene. [thefword.org.uk]
• You don't have to be a nudist or a naturist to enjoy the clothes-free rejuvenation found at Living Waters Spa. [pr.com]
• Lawmakers in a West Virginia town were too embarrassed to read aloud their own anti-nudity ordinance. [timeswv.com]
• Meet the unofficial mayor of Mazo's nude beach. [madison.com]
• Bluefly's new commercials, scheduled to air during "Project Runway", feature nude women in everyday situations, symbolic of the age-old dilemma of having "nothing to wear". [businesswire.com]
• Twenty-one shoppers stripped to their underwear to get $100 worth of free clothing at a UK store. [northantset.co.uk]
• The number one etiquette issue for businesspeople networking at hotel spas is nudity. [nytimes.com]
• A Canadian author is protesting the fact that her book aimed at children 8 to 13 has been banned at an elementary school for containing the words "generous bazoongas" to describe the breasts of a grandmother who poses for a nude charity calendar. [theglobeandmail.com]
• "The Disobedient Male" is an online art exhibition which investigates society's hostility towards the nude male. [pr-usa.net]
• A woman defends her decision to continue breastfeeding her four year-old daughter. [news.independent.co.uk]
• 50 people posed nude for photographer Jack Gescheidt in order to save a grove of oak trees. [dailycal.org]
• Women who violate a "trouser ban" in a South African township are being rounded up and assaulted. [int.iol.co.za]
• 200 angry tenants are planning a nude protest against an Australia's Lend Lease Corp. [theage.com.au]
• A survey found that 25% of all men are ashamed to be nude in front of their partners. [thisislondon.co.uk]

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