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Usually it's people complaining that art shows too much skin and trying to bring more censorship into the picture. But there's a been a refreshing—if somewhat ridiculous—reversal at one Brooklyn cafe. The Tea Lounge, which is in the very child-friendly neighborhood of Park Slope, attempted to make itself less offensive to the kids in the neighborhood by covering up the nipples on a series of nude paintings that were on display in the coffee shop. But the mothers who frequent the coffee shop with their kids—and often breastfeed openly while there—cried foul. More »
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You might think that movie stars spend hours each day staring at their naked bodies in the mirror, either because they are transfixed by the sight of their own silky skin or because they know they'll have to be naked on-screen in front of millions of people and need to make sure every inch of them looks it's best. But apparently that isn't the case—at least not for Carey Mulligan. In an interview about her new movie, Shame, she says she's nothing like the exhibitionist character she plays: More »
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20-year-old college student Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has sparked outrage in Egypt by posting naked photos of herself to her blog as a protest against the country's conservative culture. She says she's upholding the spirit of the revolution, but in addition to conservative Islamists, she's angered liberals who believe the scandal will hurt them during the country's parliamentary election next week, the first since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted. More »
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A student newspaper at East Carolina University is in trouble for publishing unedited photos of a streaker in which you can clearly see his junk. They say they just wanted their fellow students to be able to see the, um, facts. More »
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The Massachusetts Senate race pitting Republican Scott Brown and former Harvard Law Professor/chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel Elizabeth Warren is getting ugly fast, and both candidates recently hit each other below the belt. More »
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Not content with simply making her mother's name synonymous with bad parenting, Christina Crawford is developing a one-woman show in which she she'll share new details about her family — including never-before-seen home videos of a nude Joan Crawford. The play, which is titled Surviving Mommie Dearest, is based on her books Mommie Dearest and Survivor and Christina says it will offer "a much more complete story." More »
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In San Francisco, you're free to enjoy some medicinal marijuana while lounging about a public space in the nude, but a new law might require nudists to put a barrier between themselves and public property. Citing health concerns, lawmakers in the city have introduced an ordinance that would put limits on public nudity, such as covering a seat before you place your bare behind on it. More »
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So apparently star goalie Hope Solo "hinted on her twitter account on Tuesday that she will pose naked in the famed "Body Issue" of ESPN The Magazine." Her "hint": "Being naked outside is very liberating....atleast I hope it will be @ESPN and @ESPNMAG!!! GAMETIME BABY! Ball up!" Yeah, subtle. More »
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A South Florida service offers the perfect accessory to complete your evening of shrieking and blowing penis-shaped whistles at strangers- naked butlers. More »
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She tells the Times Magazine, "Hopefully some of these women who resent me for being naked or in little to nothing will be pleased that I'm knocked up [in Boardwalk Empire, and they'll pay attention to the performance." [Earlier] More »
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Barnes & Noble recently took an unusual step — the bookstore chain required the magazine Dossier wrap its new issue in opaque plastic before agreeing to stock it. The problem with the cover? Nudity. More specifically, the nude torso of the famously androgynous male model Andrej Pejic. Barnes & Noble was concerned customers would mistake Pejic for a shirtless woman. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802115&view=rss&microfeed=true Despite its reputation as a sex-tourism destination, Thailand has been rocked with outrage over a video of three topless dancers at a festival Friday. A police official says, "This has damaged a traditional Thai ceremony. The charge is doing a shameful act in public by indecently exposing oneself." The three dancers were apparenty fined $16 and let go, though the Thai Minister of Culture suggested they should have to read to schoolchildren as part of their punishment. One disturbing detail: the dancers were just 13, 14, and 16. More »
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A funny thing happened when this blog post about celebrity baby bump photo shoots was posted by an administrator on VH1's Facebook page: Facebook deleted it. More »
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Last year in a post about the truism "sex sells," I asked: More »
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In light of a lengthy new profile of Hugh Hefner, a former editor muses on Hef's passage from icon to ghost. More »
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Betty White's recent pin-up calendar isn't out of character: She was a model in the '40s and '50s, and sometimes there weren't any clothes involved! That girl-next-door smile makes these shots more sweet than sexy… NSFW-ish, after the jump. More »
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Courtney. Courtney, Courtney, Courtney. You should not be handling cameras or laptops when you're at parties; this just leads to embarrassing twitpics. More »
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that college students love running around naked. And grownups love reading about it. More »
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A lawyer is suing his firm after he claims we was pressured to attend a nude, dildo-sharing, penis-grabbing, new-age "men's retreat." More »
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Check the ads for Jackass 3D, and you'll find that the film is "rated R for male nudity, extremely crude and dangerous stunts throughout, and for language." Wait, what? More »
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In our Daddy Issues series, a father of a young daughter seeks guidance, hoping to raise a strong woman. He looks to feminism—and readers—for help. More »
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Someone contacted us to say that they saw Robert Rodriguez's new film Machete earlier this week, and Lindsay Lohan is only in a nun's habit for a moment — when she's not totally naked. More »
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Well, you think, blankly, after finishing Lee Harrington's Salon essay "How a topless beach helped my self-esteem." Good for you. I guess. Really, it takes a moment to process it...all. More »
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There's really not much more to add. Someone get Anna Paquin a tampon, please? Click to enlarge. More »
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Hef also says that fake breasts are not going out of style: "If you come up lacking in that department, one understands that that's what cosmetic surgery exists for." More »
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•  The crowd at last night's NFL draft had some interesting words for Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. When Roger Goodell stepped up to announce their pick, he was met with chants of "she said no!" More »
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A woman from Colorado has won a battle with her landlord over the right to garden in just a thong and gloves. Awesomely, female toplessness is allowed in Boulder, so Catherine Pierce is free to grow in peace. [MSNBC] More »
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DC beauty salon D'Brows has decided to capitalize on the controversy surrounding Erykah Badu's latest video by suggesting that Badu's confidence comes from "a good waxing." The press release even nonsensically claims she "read this" before shooting the video. [TheSexist] More »
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Randall Munroe, the witty cartoonist over at xkcd, has taken on Porn for Women, a book of hunky men working on various chores, and pointed out the obvious: that ain't porn. [xkcd] More »
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An interesting piece in h+ enumerates the reasons why being naked is good for both body and soul. I beg to differ. More »
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Instead, Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams confirms what we already suspected despite the claims of a thousand Playmates: it's weird. (And, full disclosure: this doesn't actually involve Nigel Barker. But who needs an excuse?) More »
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A student at Green Mountain College is suing the school because her dorm had only coed bathrooms — which reminds me of the year I showered with dudes. More »
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Dutch reality star Patricia Paay is set to become the oldest woman to be featured in Playboy. But even at 60, she still has the same misguided belief as Levi Johnston that the nude shoot will be "classy." [News.com.au] More »
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The man responsible for promoting Playgirl's Levi Johnston shoot recently said the magazine became irrelevant because "the women working on it weren't keeping up with the times" and didn't cater to its not-so-secret gay audience. One ex-staffer begs to differ. More »
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•  The British Ad Standards Authority have decided to go ahead and give this ad for Lars von Trier's new film Antichrist a pass because even though it shows a little naked ass, they don't find it particularly arousing. • More »
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Levi Johnston promises that he will "keep it classy" in his upcoming photo spread in Playgirl, which means we might not see his johnson. "I'm going to decide that on the fly...I don't want to do something I'll regret." [NYDailyNews] More »
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Denise Woodage of Reading, England, whose neighbor was convicted last week of masturbating and doing chores naked in his backyard, says seeing his "pale and hairy" body drove her to take anti-depressants and "has put me off men." [Get Reading] More »
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Images from Heidi Montag's Playboy shoot have hit the web. As mentioned earlier, she's not completely naked: "No nipples, no vagina, no ass." No ass, meaning: No Spencer. [Playboy] More »
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On the heels of this tacky Nia Long ad, the Onion News Network has produced a so-realistic-it's-almost-not-funny-but-still-funny video (embedded after the jump), in which a "women's rights group" protests PETA's treatment of women. One protester says: More »
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