Caliente has gone off their rocker yet again....
Lingerie Bowl To Be Held At Pasco Nudist Resort
By CHRISTIAN M. WADE | The Tampa Tribune
Organizers of Lingerie Bowl VI have found a new field to play on: the Caliente nudist resort in central Pasco County.
The event, which features scantily clad women playing tackle football, is being organized by Los Angeles-based Horizon Production and the Lingerie Football League franchise.
It will be held Jan. 31 at the resort and will be between Miami Caliente and Tampa Breeze, billed as the "ultimate catfight competition." Afterhours parties will follow.
Originally, the bowl was scheduled to be in Tampa, on a vacant lot off North Rome Avenue, but on Thursday, the owner of the property backed out of a pledge to let them use his land amid growing opposition from Hyde Park area neighborhood groups.
Organizers also needed approval from city's Land Development and Zoning department and the Tampa Police Department to provide off-duty officers to supervise the event.
It wasn't immediately clear whether organizers would need permits from Pasco County.
"This season will be the first in Super Bowl's backyard transforming Caliente Resort into a 'Mardi Gras meets Super Bowl-like setting' for football fans," the company said.
Tickets for the event will range from $50 to $150.
On Feb. 1, Caliente will host "the country's biggest poolside Super Bowl viewing party" on multiple plasma screen TVs and a "behind the scenes" viewing of Lingerie Bowl VI.
The game also will be broadcast on pay-per-view during the Super Bowl halftime.
Nudist club offers rooms to inauguration bare-devils
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WASHINGTON (AFP) A nudist club near Washington is offering to bail out people stuck for accommodation during next week's inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, but you have to be a bit of a bare-devil to take up the offer.
You have to get naked.
Certainly, that's only to be expected at a nudist club, and, this being the dead of winter, you don't have to stay naked all the time.
And, furthermore, staff at the Pinetree Club near Annapolis, Maryland, will break you in gently to the idea of being in the buff.
"People who aren't members of the International Naturist Federation or the American Association for Nude Recreation have to go on a 30-minute tour of the facilities," Patrick Sokoloski, the manager of the Pinetree Club, set in a 90-acre wooded park 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Washington, told AFP.
"They don't have to be nude for the tour," he said.
"But the tour ends at our indoor swimming pool, which is heated to 90 degrees, and they have to get nude at that point," he said.
During the tour, staff at the Pinetree Club, which prides itself on being the oldest nudist camp in the United States, brief visitors on nudist etiquette -- things like no cameras, no gawking, no sexual advances.
But even on that front, there isn't much to take in at this time of year because the camp doesn't have many visitors strolling the grounds in the buff.
"I mean, it's below freezing outside," said Sokoloski.
Unlike many hotels in Washington and surrounding towns, the Pinetree Club has not put up its rental rates for the inaugural period.
Cabins start at 73 dollars a night for non-nudist federation members, rising to 155 dollars nightly.
"This is the first time that we're pitching to the inaugural crowd," said Sokoloski, admitting that he, too, has been caught up in the excitement surrounding Obama's election.
"But we're really just trying to promote nudism, because Americans are still on that puritan kick and many of them don't know how to handle it yet," he said.
Call it not take it off: League halts Lingerie Bowl
By Emily Nipps, Times Staff Writer
Published Monday, January 26, 2009
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LAND O'LAKES It was supposed to be the Lingerie Bowl, not the naked bowl.
Now the whole thing has been canceled.
Citing conflicts with the hosting Caliente nudist resort over a "clothing mandate" that bowl organizers say was agreed upon, the Lingerie Football League is throwing in the towel. A league spokesman said holding and broadcasting the game in the nude or around nude people was not what the players or league had in mind.
"The league will not place our fans, players, staff nor partners in a less-than-comfortable environment that would ultimately jeopardize the mainstream perception and reputation of the brand that so many have worked diligently over these past five years to build," the league's Stephon McMillen said.
Angye Fox, a spokeswoman for Caliente Resorts, issued this statement: "Caliente is a luxury clothing-optional resort. We ran into conflicts with the Lingerie Football League wanting more areas of our resort restricted to clothing required than we could accommodate."
The league's announcement came after weeks of problems that hinted the Jan. 31 Lingerie Bowl VI, which was to air on pay-per-view during the Super Bowl halftime, was in trouble.
The game struggled to find a venue. Last week, the league announced it had found a new home at Caliente, a clothing-optional resort in Pasco County.
McMillen said the cancellation was disappointing, but "we feel ultimately it is in the best interest of the league not to place ourselves in what some would consider a potentially negative environment."
Note: I'm not sure if we should consider this a victory or a loss. Considering the raunchy way that Caliente was presenting itself here in the name of nudism perhaps it's a victory in a way. On the other hand it could be considered a bit of a stain on the nudist reputation the way the article makes it out to sound like such a negative environment.
I can understand how if they're broadcasting to an international audience (even on pay-per-view), that they wouldn't want nude spectators to be aired. I'm sure the players are cautioned very carefully about the need to remain dressed, even if it is just lingerie. They sure as hell could have worded it a lot better.
I can also understand Caliente saying, "Hey - we had a deal, now you want MORE of our facility to become non-clothing-optional? Screw you." I wish it had been otherwise. It would have been great press fo rnudists everywhere.
Naked hikers face fines in SwitzerlandCanton aims to stop spread of 'indecent practice'Kate Connolly in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 14.16 GMT larger | smaller Article historyNaked alpine ramblers have been warned to keep their clothes on this spring or face fines under new legislation introduced by Swiss authorities intended to clamp down on a growing pastime.
The Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden has said it will slap fines of 200 francs (122) on holidaymakers going naked in the Alps.
"We were forced to introduce the legislation against this indecent practice before the warm weather starts," said Melchior Looser, the justice and police minister of the canton.
He said that until now the naturist walkers sometimes referred to as "boot-only hikers" had been free to wander naked because there was no law to prevent them from doing so. The new law is expected to come into force on 9 February in time for the start of the hiking season.
According to one naked hiker website, nacktwandern.de, the trend goes back to the start of the 20th century and has much to do with the new access it gives people to nature.
"Abandoning unpractical clothes enables a direct contact with the wind, sun and temperature", the site said. Some hikers even abandon footwear.
A 58-year-old German lawyer and naked hiker called Dietmar, who declined to give his last name, said he was sad to hear of the Swiss changes. "We simply try to tune into nature," he said. "It's the most harmless pursuit possible."
Looser said: "The point is many children visit our mountains in the summer."
Naked ramblers are drawn to Appenzell Innerrhoden which is also famous for delaying giving women the vote until 1990 by its beautiful landscape. Last year an internet campaign by a lobby group of hikers declared it to be a "naked rambler paradise", prompting a rush of visitors.
The naturist movement in the German-speaking world known as free body culture (FKK) has traditionally flourished on beaches rather than in the mountains. According to a strict set of rules, beaches are divided into designated sections for nudists and non-nudists, with beach police patrolling the two to keep the peace.
The following was posted by CRDDNK as a bulletin and forwarded by KAITHUY. I don't know how to post it as anything other than a link right now, would one of the newsy nudists help me out and repost this as text?
This is cool ...
Nudists go on 220-mile charity hike from London to Birmingham
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2009/03/23/nudists-hike-to-encourage-clothing-donations-115875-21222350/
Great story and interesting how differentlynudism is looked at in the UK. In the US this would be national news and would cause an uproar and an overallquestioning of morality in the Country etc. etc. Thanks for the post guys good work. Sorry i cannot assist in posting the article. -K
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