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Thursday, April 28, 2016

The latest Nudes in the News, April 28, 2016


Would you dine in a naked restaurant?
image No shirt, no shoes? You’ve got service at this bare-naked restaurant opening in London. Restaurant goers will soon be able to dine in their birthday suits where the waitstaff will also be showing more skin then the typical road-side diner would. London’s Bunyadi restaurant opens in June and personifies the meaning of the word "natural" by liberating patrons from phones, electric lights - and clothing. According to...More...

Skinny dipping is the new rage for singles
image Here’s the skinny on Americans - they love to swim nude when on vacations, according to a new survey by an online dating Web site. According to more than 15,000 respondents, skinny-dipping is very popular among singles - but being caught in the act (of swimming with no clothes on), not so much. The survey by MissTravel.com showed more than 70 percent of travelers have gone skinny-dipping, while 38 percent...More...

Bare Reality: Epsom photographer Laura Dodsworth's breast book becomes a play in Ewell
image An Epsom photographer’s inspiring book of boobs is being adapted for the stage. Laura Dodsworth spent two years photographing and interviewing women aged 19 to 101 about their breasts, bodies and lives for the book Bare Reality. It was featured on TV and talk shows around the world and raised money for Breast Cancer UK. Among the women featured were a Buddhist nun, a burlesque dancer, a female...More...

Skinny-dipping safaris suggested to supplement struggling fishers
image A shortage of fish in the sea has prompted a call for local fishers to adopt "alternative" business interests - including skinny-dipping safaris and seal harvesting. Fishers would not be able to rely on fish resources to develop their communities, according to veteran fishing rights activist Andy Johnston of the Artisanal Fishers Association. Speaking at a small-scale fisheries workshop in Cape Town on...More...

Gallery sues over fines for artwork of partially nude woman
A New Jersey gallery has filed a federal lawsuit over a violation it was issued for displaying artwork of a partially nude woman in its store window. The Borghi Fine Art Gallery in Englewood sued last week, saying its constitutional rights were violated when it was issued a violation with fines of $1,250 per day and the threat of up to 90 days in jail over artwork showing a woman's bare buttocks. City officials and code...More...

Naked Pictures in Tibet Cause Online Controvery
image Naked pictures of a Chinese woman by a Tibetan lakeside have stirred widespread debates on Weibo, where many people think that the woman’s act of getting naked on camera is "disrespectful to Tibetan culture." According to China Tibetan News, pictures of a Chinese woman getting naked by the Yamdrok Lake in Tibet went viral on Chinese social media on April 11, causing widespread discussions amongst...More...

Facebook suspends users over ‘nude’ photo of Aboriginal women in traditional dress
image Facebook has suspended the profiles of people who shared an article about Aboriginal feminism, because it contains a photograph of two Indigenous women in traditional attire. Facebook does not allow bare breasts in posts. Celeste Liddle, a feminist and freelance author, gave the keynote speech at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre’s annual International Women's Day address, and a version of...More...

Woman sues Chicago for indecent exposure fine on 'Go Topless Day'
image A woman who for several years participated in "Go Topless Day" in Chicago is suing the city for the cost of an indecent exposure fine, according to court documents. Sonoko Tagami filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city and the Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings. Chicago police ticketed Tagami for indecent exposure in August 2014 during an event at Chicago's lakefront to promote the right...More...

Residents, swimmers clash over ‘clothing optional’ beach
image Residents and swimmers are clashing over nudity on a North Shore beach, and they both say the law's on their side. Polo Beach in Mokuleia has long been known as a "clothing optional" beach, a fact that angers area homeowners. Denise Kuehu and other residents say the nudity has gotten out of hand, and that public decency laws should be enforced to keep beachgoers clothed. "It's been going on for so long...More...

Budleigh Salterton nudist beach bid defeated
image Naturists have lost their bid to extend the clothes-free area of a beach - after the existing section was rendered "too uncomfortable" to sit on. There had been calls to increase the length of Budleigh Salterton's nudist beach by 200 yards (183m), after the tide washed away pebbles and left hard "bedrock" behind. But Budleigh Salterton town council argued it was possible to put a "towel or lilo down" within the....More...

A beloved clothing-optional hot springs resort devastated by a Northern California wildfire last year has announced plans to re-open this year.
Harbin Hot Springs updated its website to say the famed resort may start taking customers as early as late summer. The Valley Fire whipped through Lake County, killing four people and wiping out 1,300 homes. The Sept. 12 fire torched nearly 120 square miles and caused at least $700 million in insured damages. The fire left Harbin's hot and cold springs intact but destroyed most of the resort. A soft opening will...More...

Last ever Naked Bike Ride in Melbourne
image Cyclists in Melbourne have stripped off today for the last World Naked Bike Ride to be held in the city. Having run for a decade, organisers say the event is to close, because "cycling and cycling awareness has become a full time job, not just one day a year." Cyclists wore helmets but little else to take part in the 15km route around the city, aiming to promote...More...

Kate Hudson grew up in a comfortably naked family
image Kate Hudson prefers being naked. The 36-year-old actress, whose book ’Pretty Happy’ is about ways to love yourself, inherited her body confidence from her Oscar-winning mother Goldie Hawn because the veteran star always wore "tiny numbers" around their home. Speaking to talk show host Conan O'Brien, she said: "My family’s always been a comfortably...More...

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Nudes in the News for March 3-31, 2016, courtesy of Bay Area Naturists, San Jose, CA

Newest Theatre Woodstock show Bare Bear Bones follows two empty nesters as they accidentally visit a nudist campground (Megan Stacey, Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Thursday, March 31, 2016)
Nudist Dorm Proposed (Kaleigh Farrelly, The Spur, Southwest Minnesota State University, Thursday, March 31, 2016)
Group wants Arkansas's prude nude law revoked (David Koon, Arkansas Times, Thursday, March 31, 2016)
The Hull people signing up to strip naked for Spencer Tunick's Sea Of Hull (Hull Daily Mail, Thursday, March 31, 2016)
Hull City of Culture mass-nude photo interest 'overwhelming' (BBC News Humberside, Thursday, March 31, 2016)
Hull set for City of Culture mass nude photograph (BBC News Humberside, Wednesday, March 30, 2016)
Family of nudist farmers reveal: 'The cows watch us ploughing in the nude!' (Francine Anker, Closer, Thursday, March 24, 2016)
Topless protester dragged out of crowd outside court after Jian Ghomeshi found not guilty (video) (National Post, Thursday, March 24, 2016)
From the Archive: Skinny-dipping in 1950s DeKalb County (Brett Rowland, Daily Chronicle, Tuesday, March 22, 2016)
Watch naked Broad Street reveller be 'rescued' by Bananaman (video) (Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Mail, Monday, March 21, 2016)
Natural Week: Naked in the Woods (Brittany Tedesco, BreakThru Radio, Monday, March 21, 2016)
Wasaga Beach committee of the whole recommends three-year trial (Andrew Philips, Orilla Packet, Thursday, March 17, 2016)
Wasaga council OK with three-year trial for clothing optional beach (Ian Adams, Wasaga Sun, Ontario, Canada, Wednesday, March 16, 2016)
Nudists angry at Budleigh Salterton beach extension block (BBC News, Tuesday, March 15, 2016)
Facebook suspends users over 'nude' photo of Aboriginal women in traditional dress (Penny Timms, ABC News Australia, Tuesday, March 15, 2016)
Budleigh Salterton nudist beach bid defeated (BBC News, Monday, March 14, 2016)
Man rescued by kayaker after skinny dipping in San Jacinto River (video) (KHOU 11 Houston, Saturday, March 12, 2016)
Project Runway All Stars recap: 'Birthday Suits' (Dalene Rovenstine, Entertainment Weekly, Thursday, March 10, 2016)
Project Runway All Stars: Birthday Suits (video) (Season 5, Episode 5, Lifetime, Thursday, March 10, 2016)
On French Island, Nudists Rebuff Clothing Rules (Noemie Bisserbe, The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, March 10, 2016) (subscription required)
A beloved clothing-optional hot springs resort devastated by a Northern California wildfire last year has announced plans to re-open this year (Associated Press via Daily Journal, Wednesday, March 9, 2016)
Wisconsin DNR Closes Clothing Optional Beach Due to Sex and Drug Use (Christie Green, WDJT 58 CBS Milwaukee, Tuesday, March 8, 2016)
Mazo Beach closed, state cites 'illegal' activity (Wisconsin Gazette, Tuesday, March 8, 2016)
Wisconsin DNR closing Mazomanie nude beach effective immediately (Caissa Casarez, WKOW 27 ABC, Tuesday, March 8, 2016)
Woman sues Chicago for indecent exposure fine on 'Go Topless Day' (Tony Briscoe, Chicago Tribune, Friday, March 4, 2016)
Residents, swimmers clash over 'clothing optional' beach (video) (Jim Mendoza, Hawaii News Now, Thursday, March 3, 2016)

The latest Nudes in the News, April 6, 2016


 

The Hull people signing up to strip naked for Spencer Tunick’s Sea Of Hull
image She thinks nothing about shedding her clothes. Now, Sam Hawcroft, the editor and publisher of H&E naturist magazine, is encouraging others to do the same by becoming part of the Sea Of Hull. New York artist Spencer Tunick’s latest project to photograph at least 1,000 naked people in Hull was officially launched yesterday. Sam said: "As the news broke, there was the full gamut of reactions on the...More...

Family of nudist farmers reveal: ‘The cows watch us ploughing in the nude!’
image Farming and nudity aren’t words that you’d often put together - until you meet the Woods family who regularly strip off when they’re going about their agricultural duties. ‘Farming is hot work, the less you wear the better,’ says Colin Wood, as he rides a tractor (wearing nothing but green wellies) on the family beef and arable farm in a village near Doncaster. For Colin, 64, his wife Carol, 60, their daughter Angela, 35 and ...More...

Wasaga council OK with three-year trial for clothing optional beach
image The longest freshwater beach in the world could soon have the longest stretch of clothing-optional beach in Ontario. Town council has backed a bid to turn the north-eastern stretch of Beach Area One that’s largely natural as a spot for people to go au naturel. At its March 15 meeting, Wasaga Beach council’s committee of the whole endorsed a recommendation for a three-year trial, with...More...

From the Archive: Skinny-dipping in 1950s DeKalb County
image By the 1950s, both DeKalb and Sycamore had public pools, but those weren’t the only places DeKalb County residents went to cool off in the summer. In the summer of 1954, DeKalb County Sheriff Francis J. Sullivan started to get worried about "nocturnal swimming parties" at a gravel pit on the Sears farm, 3 miles southeast of Sycamore, according to a report in the Chronicle in June of that year...More...

Natural Week: Naked in the Woods
image Recently BTRtoday’s very own Jess Goulart described her unexpected experience at a naturist (a.k.a. nudist) resort. Today, we take a deeper look into this liberating lifestyle as we chat with Felicity Jones, co-founder of Young Naturists of America, who also recently modeled on the Project Runway Allstars episode "Birthday Suit." In the episode, a group of designers were challenged to create fashionable...More...

Group wants Arkansas’s prude nude law revoked
image It’s currently a Class A misdemeanor for a "person, club, camp, corporation, partnership, association or organization to advocate, demonstrate, or promote nudism." Nudism is terrific, and you should try it! That's not an editorial comment, by the way. It's written there to make a point. Specifically, if local police and prosecutors wanted to follow the letter of current Arkansas law, the author of this article is, as of...More...

Facebook suspends users over ‘nude’ photo of Aboriginal women in traditional dress
image Facebook has suspended the profiles of people who shared an article about Aboriginal feminism, because it contains a photograph of two Indigenous women in traditional attire. Facebook does not allow bare breasts in posts. Celeste Liddle, a feminist and freelance author, gave the keynote speech at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre’s annual International Women's Day address, and a version of...More...

Woman sues Chicago for indecent exposure fine on 'Go Topless Day'
image A woman who for several years participated in "Go Topless Day" in Chicago is suing the city for the cost of an indecent exposure fine, according to court documents. Sonoko Tagami filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city and the Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings. Chicago police ticketed Tagami for indecent exposure in August 2014 during an event at Chicago's lakefront to promote the right...More...

Residents, swimmers clash over ‘clothing optional’ beach
image Residents and swimmers are clashing over nudity on a North Shore beach, and they both say the law's on their side. Polo Beach in Mokuleia has long been known as a "clothing optional" beach, a fact that angers area homeowners. Denise Kuehu and other residents say the nudity has gotten out of hand, and that public decency laws should be enforced to keep beachgoers clothed. "It's been going on for so long...More...

Budleigh Salterton nudist beach bid defeated
image Naturists have lost their bid to extend the clothes-free area of a beach - after the existing section was rendered "too uncomfortable" to sit on. There had been calls to increase the length of Budleigh Salterton's nudist beach by 200 yards (183m), after the tide washed away pebbles and left hard "bedrock" behind. But Budleigh Salterton town council argued it was possible to put a "towel or lilo down" within the....More...

A beloved clothing-optional hot springs resort devastated by a Northern California wildfire last year has announced plans to re-open this year.
Harbin Hot Springs updated its website to say the famed resort may start taking customers as early as late summer. The Valley Fire whipped through Lake County, killing four people and wiping out 1,300 homes. The Sept. 12 fire torched nearly 120 square miles and caused at least $700 million in insured damages. The fire left Harbin's hot and cold springs intact but destroyed most of the resort. A soft opening will...More...

Last ever Naked Bike Ride in Melbourne
image Cyclists in Melbourne have stripped off today for the last World Naked Bike Ride to be held in the city. Having run for a decade, organisers say the event is to close, because "cycling and cycling awareness has become a full time job, not just one day a year." Cyclists wore helmets but little else to take part in the 15km route around the city, aiming to promote...More...

Kate Hudson grew up in a comfortably naked family
image Kate Hudson prefers being naked. The 36-year-old actress, whose book ’Pretty Happy’ is about ways to love yourself, inherited her body confidence from her Oscar-winning mother Goldie Hawn because the veteran star always wore "tiny numbers" around their home. Speaking to talk show host Conan O'Brien, she said: "My family’s always been a comfortably...More...