The Daily Newds 1/11/08

• A man in the UK with "man boobs" is frustrated because the health care system will not pay the $8000 for their reduction.

  Mr Jardine added he was now considering taking anti-depressants because he was so unhappy about his breasts.

  Anyone who has ever been in a social nudist situation will testify that "man boobs" are just part of life. [BBC News]
• If you put a nude photo of yourself in the trash, do you then have a claim when the trash collectors hang it up at their recycling center? Get a shredder. [Northampton Chronicle and Echo]
• Here are 8 things you might not know about The Naked Cowboy. [tampabay.com]
• Playboy's "Lawyer of Love" columnist makes no apologies for posing nude in the magazine.

  "The naked body is a beautiful thing," she said. "Besides, I still have the same brain I had before I took my clothes off. I'm the same lawyer, the same ballbuster and then some. I shouldn't be punished for having brains and a body." [Chicago Sun-Times]

• An aide to Queen Elizabeth has given her a charity calendar containing photos of The Fron Choir in which the members bare nearly all. [m&c]
• The Lexington Art League's "Nude International 2008" opens today.

  "I love drawing every kind of body, which is very different from the images we are bombarded with in the media," says artist Martha Ferris of Vicksburg, Miss. [kentucky.com]

• There are no sexually oriented businesses in a Texas county, but that's not stopping politicians from tightening the regulations.

  (Attorney) Shepherd said. "Most of us would have a hard time accepting the notion that a topless bar is freedom of speech. But that's what the law says." [wfaa.com]

• French actor Arielle Dombasle is proving that taking off your clothes at 50 can be done in the best possible taste. [scenta]
• A New Jersey art gallery showcases a variety of aesthetics in a new show called "Body Works".

  Joanna Tully's pair of portraits of an aging bohemian woman examine the nature of self-image and youth, with a subject dressing far younger than one might expect. In one close portrait, the skinny, 70ish woman appears topless in all her wrinkled glory. In the other, she is clothed in an outfit that includes fishnet stockings. She leans back in her chair, taking a long, cheek-puckering drag on a cigarette with one hand, and fiddles with her stringy hair with the other as she defies age and convention. [nj.com]

• A new calendar features topless male Mormon missionaries. [chicagotribune.com]
• In Bulgaria, topless sunbathing is not only legal, it is encouraged. [news.bg]
• Rachel Bilson says that she will never appear nude on film. [hollyscoop.com]
• Summerhill, the most progressive school in Britain, has been compared to the anarchy found in "Lord of the Flies", but others feel that when children are allowed to make their own decisions they develop into the people they really want to be.

  The children certainly seem to thrive in the liberal atmosphere. Although they have no restrictions on hair or clothing, and are allowed to swear and even sunbathe nude, they appear very well-behaved. They have nothing to rebel against and realise courtesy is the best way of getting on in life. [The Herald]

• Italian winemakers disapprove of the nude Paris Hilton ad, which they feel is not fitting for their Prosecco white sparkling wine. [stuff.co.nz]
• A Fox News commentator shows his male chauvinist pig side when he takes on the subject of topfreedom.

  Swimsuits are male oppression, women, and if you believe in equal rights then damn it, you should show it by stripping off right now. And possibly take a photo and send it to me. I will do my best to further the cause by showing them to my friends. And if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler. [foxnews.com]

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