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As problems go, this ranks right up there with hangnails, bad hair and ear wax.
Besides, I have a feeling that with the drop in temperature, it'll sort itself out...
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Who knew that it's legal to be nude in public in California as long as one isn't being "sexual" about it?
I imagine the DA in Irvine, Los Angeles and San Francisco have different thoughts about this, though.
Posted by Jody at 10:37 AM
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....even when all the nude guys are rather sexy.
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Nudist beach police to go undercover
How much overtime do you think they'll do?
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"I think I blush a bit doing the ADR in a room with a bunch of technicians who don't know you," said Blair. "You have to do this moaning and screaming while watching your naked body on film. It's surreal. I don't view it as myself. It's just the character, but, yeah, there are a bit of uncomfortable moments, especially when Mom sees the film."
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City Councilman: 'Ban Nude Artwork in Public!'Moulton said he appreciates art, but believes it should be displayed in certain places. "I see nothing wrong with that kind of art, but there should be a place for it," Moulton said. "A mother walking her kids in a stroller shouldn't be exposed to it. If we don't do something, what's the next step? How far do we let this go?" Sources close to Rep. Moulton have revealed to NW that should this bill pass, Moulton will next move for blindfolds to be issued to all nursing newborns, lest they be permanently scarred by seeing a bare tit while suckling.
Posted by Jody at 01:43 PM
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In the recent upgrade to MT 3.5, about 12 months of entries between 2004-2005 were corrupted. The back-up files still exist. It's just going to take me a while to enter them again. Until then, there are quite a few "gaps" on these archive pages.
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It was just a breast.
Get over it.
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Lest I give you the wrong impression, most clothing optional places are terribly tame affairs, concerned with sun-tan lotion, buffetts and bridges: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- The Desert Shadows Inn and Resort's "naked bridge" will be ready next month for strolls in the buff.
Its foundation was poured last Thursday and nudist resort guests will be able to cross busy Indian Canyon Drive without clothes in January, marketing director Barry Gumaer said.
"Palm Springs is about to host the world's first nudist bridge," Gumaer said.
Desert Shadows is a "family hotel" where swimsuits are banned in the swimming pool and spa. The $250,000 nudists-only footbridge will connect the resort's 59 condos, 33 hotel rooms and tennis courts with 11 additional condos.
The bridge will be built to shield naked guests from passing motorists below.
Posted by Jody at 12:35 AM
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I always love it when people point out that gay men are sex craved, orgy seeking exhibitionists: ...For most of our fellow guests, life at Hedo didn't seem to be about nudism, it seemed to be all about sex -- group sex, watching sex, couples wanting to have sex on the beach, in the whirlpool, on floats, in hammocks or in the pool.
At 5 p.m., it was hard to know where to look. Should I be staring at the couple on the beach chair indulging in oral sex, with her wearing a small bridal veil, or at the group sex going on in the whirlpool? Should I watch several couples that were having in sex in the pool? Or should I wander down to the grotto and watch the couple making out on the plastic float?
The other guests around the pool were dozing, reading or watching the show. For the clothed staff, it was business as usual. So I climbed gingerly into the whirlpool.
Trying to interview naked people was a first, but this group, when not busy with themselves and others, was remarkably friendly, even after I introduced myself as a travel writer.
On the way to the pool, I'd encountered several rather loud marital disputes -- "I was waiting where you told me to meet you at 4 p.m., and I saw you coming out of that room."
This made me anxious to ask the nice couple sitting next to me if they had spats.
"No," said the wife. "We've been six times in the past three years, and decided the last few times to cut down on our drinking so that we made decisions sober, decisions we wouldn't be sorry about when we woke up sober."
Journalism is such revealing work.
Posted by Jody at 12:27 AM
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Who knew? GROOM LAKE, Nev. -- The truth about Area 51 has finally been laid bare. Contrary to popular belief, the mysterious Air Force base isn't a repository for downed UFOs -- it's a nudist camp for the nation's top military brass!
That's the shocking assertion of a UFO buff who claims he penetrated the heavily guarded secret compound using a hang glider and got an unexpected, X-rated look at high-ranking Pentagon officials.
"I risked my neck hoping to find tangible proof of alien visitation," says the man, who asked to be identified only as "Mr. X."
"Instead I was treated to the sight of all these people in crew cuts cavorting in their birthday suits. My God, it was like one of those old-fashioned nudist camps from the 1960s."
Mr. X estimates he saw 250 buck-naked officers engaged in such activities as volleyball, aerobics, swimming, group meditation and yoga.
"I spotted a top Department of Defense official I recognized from TV press briefings," he says.
"I'm not going to name him but you know who I mean."
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Calendars uncover naked truth about fundraisers We're not sure if this is a good trend or a bad trend, but more and more of us are taking off our clothes. For money.
Not that long ago, fully clothed church, gardening and civic groups would compile recipes, put them in a binder, and sell them as a fundraiser.
Now, following the lead of their British counterparts -- those nude Women's Institute ladies and The Full Monty gentlemen -- Americans are taking off their clothes, having their photos taken, attaching them to calendars and waiting for the money to roll in.
These calendars, not to be confused with model material, are hot even if their subjects are not. Estimates are they've raised $1.5 million for 40 different causes in the past couple of years, priced at $15-$19 a pop.
''Obviously, we think this is a positive trend,'' says JudiDitzler, executive editor of N, the magazine of The Naturist Society in Oshkosh, Wis. ''These are just regular people who are willing to get out there and bare all for a good cause. We think that's great.''
The Naturist Society, by the way, does not have a calendar. Here's the skinny on a few who do...
"The Naked Bloggers'" Calendar, available soon by Pay-PAL.....
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Guardian Unlimited Observer -- The bare essentials Streaking needs courage that is best bottled. Think about it for too long and you're bound to come to the conclusion that it's not worth it.
Unlike Messrs Mutton and Bain. Their sponsored arrival towards the end of the Bledisloe Cup match between Australia and the All Blacks in Sydney last weekend was calculating as well as cold. They had done a deal with Vodafone to invade what was space already paid for by a rival telephone company. Naked guerrilla advertising.
Fully clothed yet exposed, Graham Maher, the head of Vodafone's Australian arm, admitted he'd agreed to the suggestion by Brett Mutton that he and his friend Aaron Bain streak wearing the company's logo.
Pretty soon even burping in public is going to have sponsorship....
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Actor lands part in play, then finds out he has to be nude
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Textbook company shows one nude, one clothed photo of same sculpture Neil Fry at the Educational Research Analysts, a conservative Christian group that reviews textbooks in Texas, said his organization would criticize examples of nudity in textbooks because they would "offend many people in Texas."
I just have to wonder if they close their eyes when getting into and out of the shower, lest they offend themselves.
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Seems as though our good friend John Ashcroft wasn't all that forthcoming about his realreasons for covering up those two statues. The Justice Department apparently didn't tell the whole truth when it denied that new curtains were meant to hide a bare-breasted statue that loomed over Attorney General John Ashcroft's news conferences.
The department said the blue curtains provide a better background for cameras - but internal memos obtained by the Daily News make it clear the $8,650 worth of drapery was part of a Department of Justice coverup...
...Initial reports said the curtain went up because Ashcroft, an Assembly of God minister, was offended by the one bared breast of the female statue that has graced the Great Hall since 1936. The breast was often visible over Ashcroft's head or shoulder in news conferences and photos...
....When asked yesterday about the E-mails, Comstock said, "As we have indicated previously, the attorney general is not involved in matters regarding logistics or advance. This matter was handled by the advance staff...
I see a running motif here. Things that make Rev. John uncomfortable get covered up and forgotten. Things like nudity, justice and civil rights....
Posted by Jody at 05:57 AM
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Oh, wait. It totally slipped my mind. I just thought I'd let everyone know that it's National Nude Recreation Week!
Please note that typing au natural at the computer, while nice, doesn't count toward your recreation goals. Go do something... hit the beach, go to a resort, run up and down the stairs. Have some fun.
Enjoy your life!
Posted by Jody at 11:19 PM
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I love tough guys. Indiana Jones, Mike Hammer, Han Solo, and James Dean are some of the coolest images around. These tough guys, td, assaulted, dominated but never beaten are terribly reassuring. I do wonder though if this or this or even this is a result of their not being enough of thisout there?
Consider for the moment the murky relationship of our popular entertainment to our popular disposition. The fact that violence in our society is tacitly more accepted than sensuality (or sex for that matter) is fairly well represented in the ratings earned by certain movies for certain subjects. To whit, a movie with nothing more explicit in it than two guys kissing receives an "R" rating, while one that showed several guys (and at least one woman) getting bashed, mauled, shot, stabbed or exploded earned a "PG-13" is an example of this rather strange priority. Taking life is rendered less offensive or controversial than sharing affection or love.
I know that there is a correlation between what we view and what we do, though it's not a 1:1 causal relationship. Just because we see something doesn't necessarily mean we'll go out and do it--unless we were looking for a reason to do so in the first place. Watching violence doesn't necessarily make one violent. If it did, hockey spectators would be some of the most violent people on Earth. (Alas, cabbies have that honor.) The world would also be a touchy-feely, socially sound utopia, what with all the ABC Afterschool Specials we endured as children. (Teen alcoholism? Gone. Drunk driving? Gone? Bad hair? Distant memory.)
Media does though open the door a bit for people to consider things outside the regular, or to see the regular that exists outside of what they consider. It also though reflects what we want to be "the regular" -- what our popular myths and beliefs tell us should be real, regular or "normal." Sometimes this is good. Often it just reinforces stereotypes and bad ideas that would have died off a much needed death had someone not recycled the idea.
It's in that later sense where I wonder if the rather narrowly defined view of how a guy can relate in the world -- dominating, conquering, intimidating -- precludes guys from ever considering the other sides of themselves -- compassionate, compromising, loving -- that are of equal value. Violence and aggression are necessary from time to time (like at a comic book auction), but compromise and understanding are more beneficial in the daily get and give of life. Our insanely high murder rate, higher than anywhere else in the West, has to be related somehow to our preference for the good, tough, silent and vaguely homicidal male ideal.
Yeah, okay. I'm just a silly fag who wouldn't mind a seeing a copious increase in the amount of pendulous peni present in films. I'm also a lefty, some-time academic who thinks that seeing "all" of a guy does much for demystification and an end to repression. Guys can't be sensual or sexual in any other sense than in possessorsory or dominant way. In the appreciative or beautiful sense, guys it's usually only spoken of in a context of titillation or cover.
If you think I'm just being "out there," consider this: With all of our recent teen murderers, beyond the conflicting music, video games, or gun classes they had, they all state that their being picked on, pressured, and derided for not being "manly" enough as the crucial reason for they're horrendous and evil sprees. Am I suggesting this as an excuse? No. With the exception of one kid who definitely showed symptoms of early on-set schizophrenia, all knew what they doing. Their own response to their own sensitivity, the choice they made in dealing with the raw anger and hatred they felt, was to respond in the most hateful way possible. That's just not right.
Yet it is telling that the onepopular and common image of how men are to respond to derision and scorn -- with aggression and an escalating infliction of pain an suffering -- that these guys chose to use. It is also interesting that it is this same way of responding that so many other men, of other ages, races and economic backgrounds, use -- again, witnessed by our murder stats. Yes, men are naturally aggressive. But this level of violence seems to be common to the United States.
Will nakedness, in both the physical and emotional sense, prevent further destructive acts? No. Of course not.
But it'd be a good way to start.
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In reading some of the commentaries on Y Tu Mama Tambein, I�m struck by the number of times people pointed out the male nudity in the film. A lot of people were, if not shocked, then surprised by the amount. Male nudity is just not something we see too much of in our culture. (And in that I mean nudity in all its glory, not the err�simple cheeky type.) in the film. One person did point out that if it had been female nudity, few people would have batted an eye considering the unrated nature of the film. As nudity is an interest of mine (first clue might have been the title of the site�), I�m always intrigued by it�s effects on people. In some quarters on its face it�s obscene. In others, it�s perfectly natural, normal and beautiful. Some people have problems psychologically with it, others ethically. Sometimes it�s the context, other times it�s just the principle. Psychologically, it�s fascinating to study. Esthetically, it�s wonderful to behold. Artistically, it�s often necessary to get at the heart of the tale.
I think that in most cases it has to do not so much with being nude but with being naked (something else I�m fascinated with, again, hence the title of the site.) Naked in the sense of being bare, open, and exposed. This comes not so much from the lack of clothing but from the absence of pretense, barriers or distance to one�s inner, emotional state. It�s because most of life affects us at our naked places, those spots inside us where we directly experience what is occurring and are marked by its passing. Women, I think, are keenly aware of this if only because giving birth is a terribly naked experience � there is effectively nothing between them and the emergence of life. I think men, being the emotional scaredey-cats that most of us are, wind up greatly concerned about our own nakedness, in letting others see, feel, touch and ultimately know us. Maybe it�s culture and maybe it�s genes, but in most respects, while guys can be nude with each other in the locker-room, it�s still tough to be really naked with anyone, outside of a very few, well prescribed contexts. It�s why women complain so much � and gay men too.
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Seems as though I'm not the only gay Los Angeles writer who likes to be nude... http://www.barenakedsean.org/world.htm
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