Congratulations to Naturist Action Committee.
Below is a news flash from AANR-NW Public LandsLiaison Shirley Gauthier.
From information released by NAC it appears not only wasthis ban rejected, but also staff was directed to look into thepossibility of designating a nude beach somewhere in theSeattle Parks System.
Our hats are off to Mark, Howard and all those that workedfor this success. Steve Hubbard, AANR National Public LandsLiaison, AANR NW Government Affairs Team Chair, NaturistAction Committee Success in Seattle.
Thanks to the Naturist Action Committee (NAC), Mark Storey,Howard Willams and other volunteers the Seattle ParksBoard of Commissioners rejected a proposed nudity banin Seattle Parks. Not only did they reject it but also removed it from the agendafor future meetings.
To view a clip of the KING TV news reportgo to https://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=303449 Join AANR-NW GAT in congratulating NAC and volunteers fortheyre worthy victory in Seattle.
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Well from what I've seen online, it's not surprising to see the anger over this issue moving over to the real world. While I don't like the idea of sex being associated with nudism, I like the idea of violence associated with nudism even less. Hehe...Don't these people know the saying it's better to make love and not war?
Nude beaches seen as cover for cash gaps
By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post staff writer
Friday, November 28, 2008
Times are tough, maybe even tough enough to start paying more attention to one of the state's leading nudists.
"It's time for the state of Florida to grow up," said Richard Mason, the president of the Florida Naturist Association.
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Mason, who lives in Miami-Dade County, was in Boca Raton this week to urge Palm Beach County's legislative delegation to take a less-is-more approach to plugging holes in the state budget.
Mason's idea is simple: More nude beaches equals more state revenue.
"If you can build golf courses for golfers, why can't you designate beaches for naturists?" Mason asked.
He uses Haulover Beach Park in Miami-Dade as Exhibit A.
For the past 18 years, that beach has been designated as a sanctioned clothing-optional beach the only one in the state.
"It's drawing more visitors than the Florida Marlins and the Miami Dolphins combined," Mason said.
And the county is reaping the benefits of the $5 parking fee, which brings in about $1.4 million a year, he said.
"Every year the parking money keeps going up and up," he said. "Nothing stops it from growing."
Mason estimated that 60 percent of Haulover's visitors travel from other parts of the state, elsewhere in America or abroad to sunbathe in the raw.
"It's a destination beach all because it's a naturist beach," he said.
Mason's pitch for more nude beaches is especially well timed because Gov. Charlie Crist is looking to make significant cuts in state spending, including from the Division of Recreation and Parks. That division has been asked to come up with a 10 percent cut in its operating costs.
To do that, the division has come up with a plan to close 19 parks across the state until the economy rebounds. None of the parks is in Palm Beach, Martin or St. Lucie counties.
But instead of closing the parks, Mason has argued, the state can more than compensate for its revenue shortfalls by keeping all the parks open and changing the designation of a few beachfront parks into clothing-optional spots.
"Naturists like to be around the ocean," he said. "You put one of those beaches in Palm Beach County and it will draw a lot of people."
The John D. MacArthur Beach State Park in northern Palm Beach County had been an unofficial clothing-optional beach until the state took it over in the 1980s and began arresting nude sunbathers there.
A state appellate court decision ruled that being nude alone does not constitute indecent exposure, and that there must be some lewd and lascivious behavior with it.
"So you can have a naturist beach as long as it is in a designated area," Mason said.
Public officials, however, have been reluctant to make accommodations for nudists.
In 1989, Palm Beach County's Tourist Development Council turned down a request by the Eastern Sunbathing Association to officially make a portion of MacArthur Beach State Park clothing-optional.
Like Mason's request this week, the sunbathing group made an economic argument to the tourism board, saying that a nude beach would bring in dollars to the county.
But that was during more comfortable economic times, days when it was easier to dismiss nudists dangling dollars.
In today's budget climate, its harder to scoff at Mason's pitch without mulling over the pros and cons.
"It's been a successful formula at Haulover for 18 years," he said. "Why not give it a try?"
Or to put it another way, what's worse?
A bare-bones budget or some bare-bones bathers.
Jobs for naked cleaners in UK The advert, placed in Southampton, Hampshire, by firm Knobs 'n' Knockers, says that it is looking for applicants of both sexes to do washing-up and ironing in the nude. https://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=204973&in_page_id=34
Knobs 'n' Knockers?!?!?!?! Seriously?
Showing nipples or pubes or being too sexually explicit can backfire if you are planning to produce a nude calendar for charity, an expert on the topic says.
A University of Tasmania lecturer who completed her doctoral thesis on the calendars says a UK spinners and weavers guild lost $34,000 after having to pulp 9,000 calendars "because they displayed their nipples".
Dr Pamela Turton-Turner said the Matildas calendar was frowned upon because Australia's elite female football players were seen as being "too sexually explicit" - not funny".
However Queensland's Yummy Mummies Bare All calendar was successful because they presented themselves as children with toys, teddies and pigtails but covered their genitals and breasts, Dr Turton-Turner says in her thesis Naked Charity.
"Experience has shown that in the successful calendars the bodies must be sanitised - non-erotic, maternal, coy and covered," she said.
"That is, they are de-eroticised because they are accepted as maternal, giving and nurturing."
Dr Turton-Turner also warned potential charity calendar nudes they risk ridicule.
She researched many Australian and international charity calendars for her PhD thesis.
Dr Turton-Turner, who lives in the isolated village of Wayatinah in the Tasmanian highlands, found that the humour and appeal of such calendars was based on the stark comparison between the ageing, sometimes bizarre, non-classic bodies of the men and women in them compared with the classic, idealised and erotic bodies of people in movies and advertising.
People who buy these calendars find them humorous because the bodies in them are not beautiful but ageing, comedic and even bizarre, she said.
For example, the Bare to be Different calendar, created by the elderly women of South Arm, Tasmania, to raise funds to buy red velvet curtains for their town hall was a success.
It worked because their ageing, wrinkled bodies were on show but nipples and pubes were covered humorously with tea-cups, flowers or prudent framing. They raised $100,000.
Paris art models go nude to protest City Hall law
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PARIS (AP) - Paris City Hall wants to strip art school models of the tips they receive from painters and sculptors _ and the nude models decided they weren't going to take that with their clothes on.
About 15 models braved near-freezing temperatures to strip outside the city's cultural affairs bureau Monday to protest a new municipal order that again bans the age-old practice of tipping those who pose nude. The order affects about 100 people.
City officials say the tips have long been illegal _ it's just that enforcement has lagged _ and they pledged to discuss ways of boosting the models' pay.
The hourly pay is 11 ($14.86), or a little bit more than a housekeeper earns, said Christophe Girard, cultural adviser to Mayor Bertrand Delanoe.
The forebears of today's models were muses for artists like Picasso, Modigliani, Courbet and Degas. But some students today don't like having to shell out cash at every session. And Girard said he and the mayor could be blamed for unaccounted-for money changing hands at city-funded arts schools.
Today's art models in Paris are mostly part-time _ and some are artists themselves. Those who work full-time say their body shapes are unique.
Girard himself was an occasional nude model, some 25 years ago at art school.
It's always been forbidden, we just didn't know, he said of the tips.
https://www.pr-inside.com/paris-art-models-go-nude-to-r970145.htm
While not directly related to nudism I think that this article does a pretty good job of displaying the differing attitudes toward nudity around the world. If you go to the link and view the article they actually show pictures of the nude protesters. As a photographer who photographs nudes and a nudist I find it particularly interesting that the issue for them is not the nude modeling but the fact that they don't like the way they are paid. Surprisingly enough there is still a huge stigma attached to photographing nudes here. I've had people turn me down for jobs when they found out that I photographed nudes. Amazing.
More jail time for naked rambler
A man known as the naked rambler has been jailed for 12 months after being convicted of a breach of the peace.
Stephen Gough, 49, was brought into the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday wearing no clothes or shoes.
He was arrested at the same court last month after attempting to leave the building naked, following an acquittal for breach of the peace.
The former marine, from Eastleigh in Hampshire, has twice walked naked from Land's End to John O'Groats.
During his appearance, Gough told the court that if members of the public were offended by his nakedness then the problem was with them and not with him.
He has spent most of the past two-and-a-half years in prison at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of more than 200,000.
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7790299.stm
Bloggers cry "foul" as web censor ring tightens
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Caroline Overington | December 20, 2008
Article from: The Australian
IT has been dubbed the Great Barrier -- a vast ring of censorship that the Government wants to wrap around the internet, ostensibly to protect the young from child pornography.
The idea for it came from the left-wing Australia Institute, headed by academic Clive Hamilton, who says it will filter out child porn, and other "unwanted" content.
The filter has since been adopted by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who insists that it will be used only to block child pornography and other "illegal material".
The filter will be tested from next week. You will not be able to opt out of at least one part of it, and it will slow down internet speeds. Ageing hippies, young firebrands and others who have some experience with governments and censorship believe the filter will grow and tighten from the day it becomes law.
Opponents are gathering in the real world but also, critically, in the blogosphere -- an online world of chat and debate -- to vehemently protest against the filter, which blocks content that you might want and are quite within your rights to see.
More than 85,000 people have signed a petition organised online by GetUp! The British website, Spiked, has devoted pages to the issue.
The New York Times has addressed the issue, quoting Senator Conroy as saying the filter is part of a $100million "cyber-safety plan".
If the Great Barrier is erected, opponents say, internet censorship will be as draconian in Australia as in China, and perhaps worse. What is at stake, they say, is freedom of speech, a pillar of democracy.
The second part of the trial involves an optional filter that people can choose to use, to filter violent content and pornography. Mark White, the chief operating officer at iiNet, Australia's third-largest service provider, told The New York Times: "Our view is there are some serious shortfalls in what is being proposed."
More than 1000 people have used Senator Conroy's new blog to protest against the filter. "It is, quite simply, impossible to censor the internet without a China-type clampdown," said one commentator.
Some commentators feared the Government was trying to find a way to censor sexual fantasies, or impose the "correct line" on sex.
The censorship barrier can't become law without support from the Greens, who have said they'll vote against it.
The Opposition will also vote against its current form.
https://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24826153-7582,00.html
Again not exactly related to nudism but something that may be of great interest to our Australian friends. Could this someday impact your ability to access sites like this one?
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