The Daily Newds 1/17/08

• A Vietnamese artist has won two gold medals at Japan's International Asahi Shimbun photo contest, both for nudes. Quoc Dinh ignored the advice from other photographers who advised him not to focus on nudes because it was a "sensitive" subject matter. [Vietnam.net]
• A junior high school soccer coach in Japan who made students run laps in the nude has committed suicide. [myfoxstl.com]
• One of the top ten Miami activities is to take it all off on Haulover Beach. [southbeach-usa.com]
• Nude artists' models in Italy are protesting poor wages by putting their clothes back on. [Yahoo! News]
• Sienna Miller has won a court case against a photographer who distributed nude photos of her taken on a movie set. [Yahoo! News]
• A Wisconsin town with no adult businesses has joined the long list of jurisdictions to pass an anti-nudity ordinance as a preventive measure. [postcrescent.com]
• A senior at James Madison University explores the art of the nude female form in different cultures.

  “In the contemporary college setting, I think we’re constantly bombarded with marketing which uses the body and sex to advertise objects which are completely unrelated,” Stewart said. “So I became interested in how past cultures used the female body in visual media, and to what ends.” [The Breeze]

• A Florida teen could face felony child pornography charges over nude photos of juveniles found on a MySpace page. [firstcoastnews.com]
• No longer "Banned in Boston", full male nudity takes the stage in three productions at the Boston Center for the Arts. [bostonherald.com]
• A Vancouver Federal Court judge has ruled that Canada Post cannot refuse delivery of a Sex Party pamphlet even though it contains an image of an erect penis. [xtra.ca]

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