The Daily Newds 1/29/08

• A Williamsburg man is fed up with nude children on "America's Funniest Home Videos" because it is "child pornography". [dailypress.com]
• A writer in San Francisco, commenting on the FCC fines against ABC TV for showing a woman nude from behind, wonders how this could happen in a country that has a First Amendment. [beyondchron.org] Another writer says that "it seems most Americans want to live in a fairytale land which is wrapped up in glittery cotton wool." [hecklerspray.com]
• Germaine Greer, in a column exploring the connection between art and exhibitionism, says, "The woman who displays her own body as her artwork seems to me to be travelling in the tracks of an outworn tradition that spirals downward and inward to nothingness." [blogs.guardian.co.uk]
• With all the rampant fears about nudity and sex on the Internet, Bonnie Ruberg offers her top ten reasons why cybersex is actually good for you. [The Village Voice]
• A French couple who posed for nude photographs at a World War I memorial were fined about $250 for "exhibitionism". [news.com.au]
• The wild blue yonder just got a little wilder with the announcement that a travel company is offering naturist flights for German tourists. [news.com.au]
• Diane Keaton no longer enjoys seeing herself naked. [newkerala.com]
• Heather L. Nunez, an art student at the University of Maine, uses nudity in her works. "We watch violence on TV all the time and it's okay," she explains. "So why is nudity shocking?" She is not trying to shock people, but instead point out the societal hypocrisies we hold. [umpi.maine.edu]
• A North Carolina attorney was held in contempt of court when a judge noticed that the copy of Maxim magazine that he was reading had a topless woman on the cover. [wsoctv.com]
• A Pennsylvania prison guard is back on the job after a arbitrator ruled that her posing naked in Playboy caused no harm to the institution. [philly.com]

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