- A 22 year-old woman complained to police when she found out that some nude photos that she had posed for when she was 17 were posted on the Internet. The photographer who took the photos has been arrested and charged with possession or promotion of child pornography. [ssnewstelegram.com]
- Charleston artist Kamille Corry is having a gallery show of her figure works.
"The human figure, in all its infinite beauty of rhythm, expressiveness, anatomical structure and design, is inexorably infused with the most complex of features: the individual soul," says Corry when explaining her fascination with the subject of nudes. [charleston.net]
- Europe's growing naturist community likes what New Zealand has to offer. [homesworldwide.co.uk]
- Portland artist Tamera Bremer has recovered the nude self-portrait rug that was stolen while on exhibit. [oregonlive.com]
- The food at Bob Evans Restaurants might be "down on the farm", but apparently breastfeeding is not. [wbaltv.com]
- An advice columnist states that parental nudity is not harmful to children "so long as it happens naturally and isn't made a big deal of", and then she advises a woman to make a big deal out of it. [dailyrecord.co.uk]
- It's amazing how strippers and drag shows are suddenly wonderful things when charity is the beneficiary. [http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/Full-Monty-in-Ponte.3701766.jp]
- A Canadian city which placed a steel plate over genitals of a nude statue has been ordered to pay the artist $15,000 in damages. [theglobeandmail.com]
- Reese Witherspoon is against on-screen nudity.
"If [actresses] take their clothes off, they objectify themselves," she tells the UK edition of Glamour. "I am flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do it." [huffingtonpost.com]
- The new First Lady of France Carla Bruni once greeted a journalist with the words "sorry for being topless". [dailymail.co.uk]
- Kathleen Turner writes about her steamy nude scenes in the movie "Body Heat".
So, wearing just a bathrobe, I launched into introductions: “Hi, I’m Kathleen. You’re the camera operator? Oh, that’s wonderful. Oh, you’re the focus puller? Uh-huh. Props? Nice.”Handshakes all round. Then Bill Hurt and I stripped naked in front of all these people we’d just met and started filming this graphic sex scene. Afterwards, I felt terribly vulnerable and shaken. [fashion.ie]
- The International Museum of Women explores the meaning behind clothes.
“[Our bra] is part of who we are,” begins, Brenda Jiménez, a Mexican artist, whose writing appears with a series of photographs depicting women wearing bras over their clothes. “Initially, it was designed to hide our attributes; now it is designed to show them off. We wear it when we want to feel comfortable, secure and frisky; or we just don’t wear it at allWhy [is it that] some women wear the skimpiest bikinis and feel clothed, but feel naked in their bras, or underwear for that matter.” [egypttoday.com]
- An attorney representing an Oakland man who was strip-searched after a drunk driving arrest says that nudity is the "most dehumanizing thing you can do to somebody". [sfgate.com]
- A woman who attended a Greek stage production which featured full-frontal male nudity regrets sitting in the front row. [cyprus-mail.com]
- A mother experienced a dilemma at a YMCA when she took her 4 year-old son and 6 year-old daughter into the locker room, and nudity ensued. Be sure to read all the comments which follow the article, people really do have serious issues with the human body. [ajc.com]
- Some people are upset over the amount of skin shown by a model on a sign for a Florida gentleman's club. Apparently they've never been to the beach. [9news.com]
- A New Zealand artist is an exhibitionist at his own exhibitions. [scoop.co.nz]
- You know that we're in a recession when lawmakers in Santa Fe are proposing a "titty tax". [kob.com]
- Artist James May is not interested in painting perfect bodies, and finding interesting nude subjects can be a challenge. "It's really not a good idea to just go up to people on the street and ask them to pose naked for you." [clarionledger.com]
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