ON-LINE NEWSLETTER SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 2005 Although she used a program at one point to shield herself VIENNA from a phalanx of TV cameras, Huth, 52, said she didn't MUSEUM understand what all the fuss was about. OPENS TO "I go into the steam bath every week, so I'm used to being naked," she said. "I think there's a double morality, NUDES especially in America. We lived in California for two years, (ART AND THE and I found it strange that my children had to cover PATRONS!) themselves up at the beach when they were only 3 or 4 years old. That's ridiculous." 07/29/05, Vienna – Vienna's prestigious For years, the Austrian capital has been known for a small Leopold Museum is but lively nudist community on the Donauinsel, an island in usually a pretty the middle of the Danube River where people disrobe, often buttoned-down place, startling the unsuspecting joggers, cyclists and rollerbladers but on Friday, some who happen upon them. of the nudes in its Overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Austria has always been marble galleries were somewhat more conservative than many other European for real. countries. The Viennese were scandalized when native art Scores of naked or nouveau masters like Klimt -- best known for his sensuous scantily clad people "The Kiss" and the subject of an upcoming film starring John wandered the Malkovich -- began producing works that some critics museum, lured by an panned as "indecency," "artistic self-pollution" and offer of free entry to "The Naked Truth," a new exhibition of borderline pornography. early 1900s , if they showed up wearing just a The 180 works on display at the Leopold through Aug. 22 -- or nothing at all. include Klimt's " Veritas," an 1899 painting of a naked With a midsummer heat wave sweeping much of Europe, young woman with wildflowers in her hair, and Schiele's pushing temperatures into the mid-90s Fahrenheit (mid-30s "Two Female Friends," a 1915 rendition of two nude women Celsius) in Vienna, the normally staid museum decided that entangled in each other's arms. making the most of its cool, climate-controlled space would Max Hollein, director of Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle art be just the ticket to spur interest in the show. museum, likened the public uproar at the time to "the visible The museum said about 300 women and men in bikinis or outcry at the live transmission from last year's Super Bowl trunks, and 10 in their birthday suits, showed up as when, for a few seconds, CBS broadcast shots of the singer of midday to tour the exhibit "The Naked Truth" of nudes Janet Jackson's exposed nipple." and other paintings that scandalized Vienna at the turn of the Mario Vorhemes, a 20-year-old Vienna resident who strode 20th century. into the Leopold on Friday wearing nothing but a green and Peter Weinhaeupl, the Leopold's commercial director, said black Speedo, was nonchalant. the goal was twofold -- help people beat the heat while "What's the big deal?" he asked. "We're born naked into this creating a mini-scandal reminiscent of the way the artworks world. Why can't we walk around in it without clothes from by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and time to time?" others shocked the public when they first were unveiled a Elina Ranta, a fully clothed tourist from Finland who century ago. checked out the art -- and the audience -- left amused. "We wanted to give people a chance to cool off, and bring "I thought, 'This is strange. How is this possible in a nakedness into the open," he said. museum?"' Ranta said. "We've been in many galleries and "It's a bit of an experiment. Egon Schiele was a young and I've never seen people walking around like this." wild person in his day. He'd want to be here." "In English, my name means 'beach,"' she added. "That's Most of those who showed up in little or no attire Friday pretty funny under these circumstances, isn't it?" opted for , but a few hardy souls dared to bare This story was compiled from several sources on the Internet. more. Among them was Bettina Huth of Stuttgart, Germany, who roamed the exhibition wearing only sandals and a black bikini bottom.

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B1 of 10 YOUTH CAMP COMMENTARIES – TWO VIEWS So what do you say we just leave them alone? If nudist parents want to rear their children in a clothing- POINT: “CIVIL RIGHTS optional lifestyle and send them to a safe nudist summer MANDATORY EVEN WHERE camp, the state ought to step aside and let them do it. There ought to be a rule against laws that interfere with the CLOTHES AREN’T” rights of parents to rear children as they see fit. Great news for fans of all-over tans. This newspaper column by Kerry Dougherty appeared in The Virginian-Pilot on 7/7/2005 The Associated Press reports that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond has revived a lawsuit – tossed out last summer – that takes issue with Virginia’s nudist camp COUNTERPOINT: “PARENTS law. DOWN, PREDATORS UP” The suit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union By DOMENICK MAGLIO, PH.D. Cultural Moral Warrior Aug 5, 2005 on behalf of the American Association for - Government has chipped away at the power and rights of Eastern Region. It argues that the civil rights of nudist traditional parenthood…The power of parents is being parents are violated by the Virginia law. eroded every day in our nation and others. The legislation at issue was passed in 2004. It requires adults The appellate court overturning this Virginia law [requiring to accompany their kids or grandkids to nudist summer camp parental supervision at a nudist camp for teens] would mean in Virginia. eleven to eighteen year-old youngsters would be allowed to That idiotic law effectively killed a nascent nudist youth attend a nudist camp with or without their parents. This camp last summer at White Tail Park in Ivor, where the would leave some children without any family members to session was called off for lack of campers. So far, only about introduce them into the nudist philosophy, etiquette and 13 children have signed up for this summer’s au naturel overall lifestyle. program. A nudist camp exposure for teenagers without screening of Apparently nothing takes the fun out of toasting nudist members, staff and parental supervision of one's own marshmallows quite like having your naked mother nearby, children can be a risky affair. The lack of supervision and nagging you about junk food. screening is compounded in our transient society. Children are more vulnerable without the watchful eyes of their loved This legislation was drafted after the General Assembly learned that White Tail Park had hosted a one-week camp in ones. Yet some modern parents insist that children from age the summer of 2003 for 38 children of nudists. Apparently eleven to eighteen without adult assistance can handle peer pressure and temptation that exists in these circumstances. drawing on their own experiences as randy teenagers, our elected representatives claimed to be horrified. Modern parents often simplistically think any lust issues on But these campers weren’t fully clothed kids plucked at the part of the staff, adults and younger campers would easily be handled by their "sophisticated teenagers." These random and tossed into a sea of . They were the offspring of nudists. Most of them had been to White Tail same naïve thinking adults simultaneously take their preteens to rock concerts and provide their teenagers rented many times with their parents. hotel rooms to have alcohol parties with minimal to no Still, the idea of skinny-dipping teens scandalized chaperoning. It appears many of these parents are living politicians. They claimed that such a camp – even one in a their lives through their children. They do not realize nor remote area with 24-hour security – would be a magnet for acknowledge the children's lack of emotional maturity puts pedophiles. Good grief. Every child – clothed or unclothed – their youngsters in jeopardy. is a magnet for pedophiles. It is easier for modern parents to assign unrealistic trust in Last year, when the General Assembly was eyeing nudist their children's decision- making ability than to restrict them camps, the owner of White Tail Park told me that there’d for their own safety. been no hanky-panky among the participants of the first As our culture establishes more children's rights through the summer program. The kids were closely supervised. There were lots of rules and few problems. legal system, parents have fewer rights, less power but still have all the responsibility of raising their child. This They did the same things kids do at other sleep-away camps. [decision]…is an invitation for predators and pending They just used more sunscreen. disaster for our civilization. Those of us who aren’t nudists will never fully understand Despite society trying to create weak, irresponsible and why people want to play badminton wearing just a hat. Still, superficial parents, conscientious parents need to act in the nudists are no more dangerous than America’s other non- best interest of their child. Parents must do what is right for conformists. the safety and development of their children even if it means You never hear about nudists robbing convenience stores, disobeying anti-family laws. running red lights or driving drunk. You don’t see gangs of Source publication: http://www.hernandotoday.com/columnists/MGB3248NZBE.html nudists loitering about on street corners. Besides that, they make terrible shoplifters. And nudists simply can’t carry concealed weapons. SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B2 of 10 According to a recent WHO report, "there is no evidence AMA REPORT SAYS INDOOR that tanning in a bed is any safer than tanning in the sun. In TANNING SALONS MORE fact, some tanning beds release much stronger UV light than the sun does." RISKY THAN DIRECT SUN A MOTHER SPEAKS OUT MEDICAL EXPERTS BACK LIMITS FOR YOUNG SALON Colette Coyne of New Hyde Park, founder of the Colette PATRONS Coyne Melanoma Awareness Foundation, is devoted to By Ellen Mitchell for Newsday, NY 08/02/05 – Each year about 30 speaking out about the dangers of UV overexposure from million people - more than 10 percent of Americans - visit any source, particularly for young people. Coyne's daughter, an indoor tanning facility, according to the Indoor Tanning also named Colette, died in 1998 of melanoma at the age of Association, a national trade group representing thousands 20. of indoor tanning facility owners, manufacturers of tanning Until this year, there were no regulations regarding teens equipment and distributors. That professional indoor tanning using tanning salons in New York state, but that seems about industry employs more than 160,000 people, according to to change. Several bills are now moving through the New the trade group, and generates more than $5 billion annually, York legislature that require anyone under 18 to have a an amount also cited by various medical societies. A sizable signed parental approval to use a tanning salon, and anyone chunk of those dollars comes from the estimated 1.5 million younger than 16 must be accompanied by a parent. teenagers who frequent the salons in their quest for the perfect tan. THE TANNING INDUSTRY'S VIEW Unfortunately, according to a report just published jointly by Dan Humiston, president of the Indoor Tanning Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy said his organization supports parental consent, because of Dermatologists, there are only a "negligible" number of customers younger and the National than 14 and those younger than 19 represent only 5 percent Cancer Institute, too of clientele. few of those teens - He added that UV exposure at a tanning salon is constant and their parents - and regulated, while outdoor sun exposure varies with time realize that the UV of day and weather conditions. Plus, he said, with indoor rays of indoor tanning, you can add "aromatherapy, built-in air tanning constitute as conditioning and speaker systems to rival those in most nice great a danger for cars ... for $6 or $7 a visit" for sessions that run from five to later development of 10 minutes. Longer sessions can run to $11, and many skin cancers as does outdoor exposure to the sun's rays. salons offer reduced-rate package deals. Young people are not likely to worry much about what could happen years down the road, according to doctors. Many, REDUCING THE RISK they say, like to maintain their summer tan throughout the • According to the National Cancer Institute, almost winter with visits to a tanning salon. everyone who frequents a tanning salon or 1 MILLION NEW CASES A YEAR exposes themselves to the sun is putting According to the American Academy of Dermatology, in themselves at risk for skin cancer. However, there 2004 more than 1 million new cases of skin cancer in all age are various things one can do to prevent exposure groups were diagnosed in the United States, with about to artificial sources of ultraviolet rays: 96,000 of those cases being melanoma, the deadliest form of • Avoid tanning beds and booths the disease. • Instead of going to a tanning salon, try tanning "In the case of skin cancer, we know that ultraviolet light is sprays. In fact, some salons now provide only the culprit," Dr. James M. Spencer, chairman of the tanning spray services. department of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of • Regardless of your exposure to natural or artificial Medicine, said at the academy's 2004 meeting in Manhattan. UV rays, conduct a monthly skin self-exam looking "Research has shown that indoor tanning is dangerous, and for any abnormalities (such as bumps or sores that there should be laws to protect children from engaging in don't heal) or moles that have changed size, color this activity as there are from other unhealthy behaviors such or shape. Be sure to check all areas. Have a friend as drinking and smoking." or family member check your back. The academy has urged that all states prohibit indoor tanning • Visit your physician or a dermatologist to get for minors and also has recommended that tanning facilities annual exams. not use words such as "safe tanning" or "no harmful rays" when advertising their ultraviolet tanning devices. For more information: Cancer Information Service, The World Health Organization takes issue with the popular 800-4-CANCER. misconception that skin cancer will result only if a person sunburns repeatedly.

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B3 of 10 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CORNER India—has been a tradition since before 4000 BC for WHAT DOES shingles, food poisoning, conjunctivitis, psoriasis, diabetes, high blood pressure and many other medical conditions. In THIS BIG fact, it has been used to treat so many different ailments that BIRD KNOW it is popularly known as the “Village Pharmacy.” Some cultures are well known for their mind/body control ABOUT alternatives to traditional medicine such as tai chi, which YOUR originated in China, and is used to relieve stress through meditation while improving balance and muscle tone. Yoga, HEALTH? which originated in India, is used for aiding in relaxation and What does the emu know? improving flexibility. Zen meditation, Biofeedback, and Many doctors are now using other therapies have also been useful alternative therapies emu oil to eliminate or reduce and have gained in popularity. scars after surgery. In addition to its homeopathic properties, the majestic emu, native to Australia, also Acupuncture is considered a relatively new form of has beautiful eyelashes! alternative medicine in most western cultures but, in reality, has been practiced as a medical treatment for everything By Jim Evans from menopause to sore muscles for more than 5,000 years Q: I was surprised recently when my doctor prescribed emu in the Orient. therapy, Rolfing, Reiki, reflexology, oil to treat my eczema! I was even more surprised when it QiGong, and other “hands-on” techniques have also worked. After trying several prescription medications with developed a strong following in many circles. varying side effects for almost a year without results, my Other Alternatives eczema was almost completely gone after just one week of using the emu oil topically. Is it unusual for doctors to There are various alternative medical systems, too, such as prescribe “alternative” methods when traditional drugs don’t Homeopathy, a 200-year-old medical system that originated work? Not that I’m complaining, of course. I’m just curious. in Europe. It has been used to treat many chronic ailments and conditions such as allergies, asthma, learning disorders, A: Traditional medicine has always been slow to accept emotional disorders, arthritis, and menopause. folklore or anything that has not been scientifically tested, but in recent years it has become more receptive to Naturopathy, which combines safe and effective traditional alternative medicine. As a result, many patients are therapies with current advances in modern medicine, treats a experiencing a blending of traditional and alternative broad range of health conditions. And holistic medicine is “a medicine. Still, Americans have become anesthetized— both system of health care which fosters a cooperative literally and figuratively—by prescription drugs to cure relationship among all those involved, leading towards every real or perceived medical problem from migraine optimal attainment of the physical, mental emotional, social headaches to erectile dysfunction. Television commercials and spiritual aspects of health.” expound the virtues of drugs whose names we cannot even The difficulty that traditional medical doctors often have pronounce along with lengthy disclaimers of side effects with many alternative medical practices and remedies is that more daunting than what ails us, perhaps corroborating the there is little scientific evidence to prove their effectiveness. old adage that sometimes “the cure is worse than the bite.” Nevertheless, some alternative health practices have been The cost of prescription drugs is one factor driving more around the world for many hundreds—or even thousands— people to alternative remedies. Custom is another. Many of of years, so their claims cannot be entirely discounted. After us grew up believing that chicken soup is good for treating a all, if they didn’t work at least some of the time, people cold or the flu, and we are now learning that grandma was would not continue to believe in them. How, then, does the right. Garlic has traditionally been known to strengthen the layman separate truth from fiction in seeking possible immune system, reduce high blood pressure, lower alternatives to drugs and what precautions should be taken? cholesterol, and even fight infections. And bee pollen has According to Alternative Health News Online long been thought of as an anti-aging remedy and has been (www.altmedicine.com), men and women should “be aware used in the treatment of chronic colitis and constipation, that alternative health and healing covers everything from among other things. There are countless other home pure hogwash to promising and proven therapies” and that remedies that are part of our culture and have been practiced “alternative medicine should be considered a supplement for generations. to—not a replacement for— traditional medicine.” Past practices Other cultures have their customs too. Emu oil, for example, Jim Evans is a 38-year veteran of health and fitness industry and a nationally has been used by the Aborigines for thousands of years but recognized fitness consultant. He is also the longtime host of Forever Young, the popular radio talk show on San Diego’s KCBQ 1170 AM (KCBQ.com) on Saturdays has only recently gained popularity in this country for the at 10:00 A.M. (PST). treatment of eczema, burns, arthritis, and even carpel tunnel http://www.seniorlifeusa.com/newspaper_pdf_april.asp syndrome. Many doctors are now using it to eliminate or reduce scars after surgery. In India the use of Neem oil—an extract from the bark and leaves of the Neem tree native to

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B4 of 10 a nudist camp for their office picnic. “The nudity was always gratuitous. It was just the '70s, it was fun." After five years on the air, the ante was upped. On The Box, Australians saw their first full-frontal female nude. The character of Miss Hemingway [Deborah Gray], a woman who had a phobic aversion to wearing clothes, did many of her scenes naked. "She would walk into a scene, throw off her fur coat and stand there, nude, reciting dialogue," Mercado says. “But only a handful of people complained.” By the early 80’s the audience was so used to seeing skin on screen, that writers stopped using it as a plot device. Naked ambition: Big Brother host Gretel Killeen and, inset, housemates take a Television nudity, although still around, went out of fashion. shower. In the mid-'90s, some show producers began insisting their NUDITY ON AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION actors wear flesh-colored undies rather than bare all, in order to maximize overseas syndicated sales, especially to CURRENT AUSSIE VERSION America. OF BIG BROTHER TV SHOW However, one small independent Australian network, SBS, carried on the nudist tradition throughout the decade and into STIRS CONTROVERSY AND the new century. “SBS has a fearlessness when it comes to nudity – both male and female,” says SBS's head

OLD MEMORIES programmer, Matt Campbell. Here, the attitude is, "Why They have been splashing in the , the pool, the spa and could you show a woman full-frontal but have it be frowned the bath. Showing us their bums, their dangly bits and upon for a man?" breasts. And now the bodies and behavior of the Big Brother Shows such as Queer as Folk and Oz [using racier footage housemates have caught the attention of the industry than what is shown in America] are commonplace on the watchdog. station, as are documentaries with titles such as In Search of The Australian Communications and Media Authority the Perfect Penis and Diary of a Teenage Nudist. (formerly the Australian Broadcasting Authority) have He says SBS simply represents life as it is. "More and more begun to investigate episodes of this season’s Big Brother we are filming the way people are. If you are sleeping in the Uncut, including one in which a contestant, Michael, nude then you don't pull the sheets up around you to get out exposed his penis as he massaged another contestant, and of bed. Filmmakers are filming us in our natural state and it's another in which two naked housemates get into a rose-petal certainly more credible, I think, but it's not like Big Brother, bath together. where it's 'Are they going to have sex in the bath tonight?' " Whether Channel Ten will rein in the content of its Big Despite the sex, however, SBS still comes last on the ratings Brother Uncut episodes is yet to be seen, but one thing is ladder. Campbell says this is probably the reason his station certain: when it comes to nudity there hasn't been this much has not received nearly as many complaints as Big Brother, on our TV screens since the heady days of the 1970s. since Uncut airs on a major network and is telecast at an “Back then, you were allowed to show full nudity on the earlier hour [8PM] in the evening. covers of those magazines,” says Robbie Swan, director of In 1986, an Australian ratings code was established that the Eros Foundation. “And that's not allowed these days at restricted nudity to the after-9:30 PM hour. The MA-ratings all.” rule, under which the current Big Brother Uncut falls, says Brief flashes of nudity appeared on Australian TV as early that “nudity and visual depictions of intimate sexual as the late '60s, but the premier of a show called Number 96 behavior (is allowed) that is relevant to the storyline or in April 1972, is often referred to as “the night Australia lost program context.” The category doesn't allow “gratuitous, its virginity”. exploitative or demeaning portrayal of sexual behavior.” But Rather than being titillating, much of the nudity was used for since Uncut is a “reality” show, who is to say what is comic effect, Mercado said. “Dorrie Evans would walk into “relevant to the storyline” and what is “exploitative?” the laundromat and there'd be a naked man there. Or some An unlikely critic of Big Brother Uncut is Swan, whose Eros woman would take her top off and Aldo Godolfus would Foundation is the lobby group for the sex industry in walk in the front door delivering groceries. But the show Australia. "What's on Big Brother at the moment is very became so popular, people didn't really care (about the similar in pitch to gonzo adult films," he says. "And the nudity). The show really survived on its stories and adult industry doesn't think it is appropriate that Channel characters.” Ten runs Big Brother with those images because it's not Another show, Carry On, debuted soon after, “In that show profitable for us. That's what adult shops and restricted actress Barbara Windsor would flash her bare breast as the premises are all about.” bikini top broke and it flew through the air.” Mercado From an original article by Jackie Chowns, July 5, 2005, in the Sydney recalls an episode where the characters accidentally went to Morning Herald. SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B5 of 10

Jill (Phoenix) LOST CAST MEMBERS HAVE Feeley was among

a number of BECOME SKINNY-DIPPERS topless women in In the hit TV series Lost, Jack Sheppard is Columbus Circle the no-nonsense doctor/castaway who yesterday protesting her Aug. tends to the sick and comforts the 4 arrest for going desperate after a jet crashes on a remote half naked. Cops Pacific island. had to quell excited crowds. But off the screen, hunky actor Matthew Fox organizes skinny-dipping parties with his sexy co-stars. NUDE PROTEST STORY OF THE MONTH "He's a total nudist," Evangeline Lilly, NYC POLICE PROTECT who plays mysterious brunette Kate Austin, told Today in a TOPFREE PROTESTERS FROM recent interview. "He has a really bad habit of taking his “EXCITED CROWD” clothes off and skinny-dipping in front 08/15/05, New York – Jill (Phoenix) Feeley was among a of the whole cast," she said. "I was number of topless women in Columbus Circle yesterday there the very first time it happened. I protesting her Aug. 4 arrest for going half naked. Ironically, was like, 'woo-hoo'. He was like, 'come the same group of New York police officers who had on.' All of us were like, 'No. You're on arrested Feeley and friends ten days earlier for being topless your own in this one, man.' And off he this time came to her rescue when she attempted the same went into the water, butt-naked." protest in front of a local crowd that the police described as What's with the skinny-dipping? “I “excited.” like to take my clothes off. What can I say?” said Fox. “I've The group of topless women who were protesting on skates, always been somebody who enjoys warm-water conditions bikes and foot drew a surging crowd of grateful gawkers in and instigating other people to skinny-dip. I think it's fun Columbus Circle after they doffed their shirts to “affirm the and an experience in trust and bonding. right to bare a lot more than arms.” Said co-star Lilly, “To give him credit, he started out as a Feeley, age 25, was taken into custody two weeks earlier Lone Ranger. Over time, people have opened up and trusted after going half naked on the lower East Side. But during him enough to strip down. And now, most of the cast get this second protest, Feeley and her friends soon found out naked and go swimming together.” that taking such a revealing stance in the center of New York From a story by Elisa Chia of MediaCorp in the Asia Channel News, 08/18/05 City can be risky. "It got hot, then it got rainy," said Feeley. SHAKIRA, THE NUDIST Then at least a dozen drooling men rushed through barricades and surrounded the women shortly before 4:30 7/25/05 – Latin pop diva Shakira p.m. Police quickly intervened, gaining the gratitude of Mebarak hates wearing clothes and Feeley. loves to be nude as often as possible. "The cops were good today," she said. The Colombian-born singer, 28, made But she said she was still steamed about her previous the statement during a recent encounter with police. Jeffrey Rothman, Feeley's attorney, television interview in Australia while said he plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the city for promoting her latest MTV video, the Aug. 4 arrest. “Underneath Your Clothes.” She added that she is left “unmoved by At the earlier protest, two police officers allegedly told her fashion” and “has no time for style to put on her top and she refused. She spent 12 hours in critics,” who mock her dress sense. custody, but wasn't charged, Rothman said. “[Picking outfits] bores me. I only got a stylist when my "We have to affirm women's right to be top-free, just as the family were astonished to see me in the same evening dress other half of the population," he said. three Christmases in a row.” "We're just demonstrating a right," said Feeley, a self- “Clothing is a way of covering your body up and causes a described "gypsy" who says she lives in an RV powered by feeling of shame if your not covered. When your nude with vegetable oil. other people the sexual connection that is associated with There were no arrests yesterday. A police spokeswoman being nude goes away because you understand nude is just noted it's legal for women to go topless in public. another state of dress (or undress). In this world of everyone Source: New York Daily News article by JIMMY VIELKIND looking to be more comfortable…nude is just better!” "If I could, I’d live in the nude, like Eve in Paradise.”

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B6 of 10 NUDIST DEMONSTRATORS HAVE AFRICAN OPPOSITION LEADER’S SUPPORT 07/24/05, Maputo, Africa - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, has now elevated marching naked through the streets to the status of a human right. Commenting on last Wednesday's scenes, in which about 90 Renamo members and supporters marched naked in the northern town of Mocimboa da Praia, Dhlakama told reporters they were merely exercising their constitutional rights. HUNDREDS OF NUDES CROSS The Renamo march was one in a series of protests against the results of the May 21 runoff election for mayor of THE TYNE FOR PHOTO SHOOT Mocimboa da Praia, won by Amadeu Pedro, candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party. Renamo claims that the election was July 5, 2005 - About 1,700 men and women have appeared fraudulent, and has threatened to make it impossible for naked in Tyneside in the name of art. Pedro to govern the town. Starting at a chilly 0400 BST, they posed at four locations in Renamo's previous demonstrations in Mocimboa da Praia Newcastle and Gateshead, donning plastic white ponchos to had taken place without incident, and the party had even cross the River Tyne. won some praise for its peaceful behavior. But on New York photographer Spencer Tunick enlisted the Wednesday, the decision to march naked led to public volunteers for Naked City, his first large-scale UK outrage and widespread condemnation. installation. But not from Dhlakama. "What is more serious", he asked, It follows his nude photo shoots in New York, Barcelona, "a woman marching with her breasts hanging out, or the Belgium and Brazil. “There is a sensual element to it, but it's massacres of those fighting for rights and legality in this not a sexual experience," he said. country ?" Gateshead's Baltic Centre said the work would show "the Dhlakama claimed that the Wednesday demonstration did poetic whole resulting from individual bodies arranged in a not constitute , and in any case had sculptural way in an urban setting.” nothing to do with the Renamo leadership, since it was This would “challenge traditionally-held views on nudity organized locally. and privacy as well as social and political issues surrounding “Renamo does not guide the actions of its members by art in the public sphere.” remote control,” he said, “because we are an organization Volunteers from around the world - including Australia, where decisions are decentralized. We support the initiatives Belgium and Peru - signed up, among them a vicar. of our delegations and we don't condemn anything.” Designer Cally Daniels, 34, from Edinburgh, said the event However, the Renamo Cabo Delgado provincial delegate, had nothing to do with . She said: "It was Armindo Milaco, also avoided responsibility for the strange not to be self-conscious in that environment - demonstration. He claimed that there was no coordination - normally I wouldn't even wear a skirt, I only wear trousers, it was a spontaneous decision of the demonstrators to so nobody even sees my legs." remove their clothing, and it was not possible to prevent University lecturer Fiona Jamieson, from Newcastle, added: them. "The photos are of nude people, but there is nothing sexual “It was an unplanned situation that sprang up in the middle about it. of the march, and nobody was able to stop it,” he said. "It's about being completely natural, normal human beings, Milaco promised that Renamo will continue demonstrating and everyone can be in the photos." against the election result. The people who do this installation will be very lucky, They would only end “when there is a solution,” he said. But because they got beyond their fears to do it since the result has been validated by the Constitutional A documentary following the event - Naked City: Spencer Council, there are no further avenues of appeal. Tunick in Newcastle Gateshead - will be broadcast on BBC Unless Pedro decides to resign (which seems extremely Three at 2100 BST on Sunday. unlikely), the only "solution" will be in 2008, when there Tunick, 38, carried out the world's largest nude photo shoot will be new municipal elections. in Barcelona in June 2003, when 7,000 volunteers stripped Milaco threatened that there might come a moment “when for the camera. things get out of hand, because Frelimo is challenging us.” http://www.timesdaily.com/ Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200507240071.html

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B7 of 10 shock didn’t wear off, but I became very adept at making “I DIDN’T JUST STEP OUT OF eye contact. MY COMFORT ZONE — It was a sea of bodies: young ones, old ones, all races, all I LEAPED!” sizes — even one who was eight months pregnant. You see, it was my first race, a 5K run. But if I was squeamish, the people who were milling about and tying on their race numbers (no pins for this group) set And it was my first trip to a nudist resort. me at ease. They chatted, laughed and most were more than The day dawned overcast and willing to share their stories, as long as I didn’t use their last foggy. Fog is good. Fog is my names. friend, I told myself as I drove “I train women in empowerment groups, and I always nervously through the thick, soupy encourage them to get out of the box,” said Paula from mix. Greensboro. “Anytime you stretch your limits, you boost Unfortunately, it lifted just about your confidence and you learn something new about the time I pulled off U.S. 158 and yourself.” started down the gravel road Dave, 58, from Salisbury received a diagnosis of colon toward the Bar-S-Ranch. cancer in 2003. “This was my present to me for surviving Now, don’t tell me you haven’t another year,” he said. driven by the Bar-S and wondered I asked Fran, 53, from Southern Virginia about her nudity. what goes on beyond the tree line. “I was born like this,” she quipped. On July 30, I wanted to find out. I met Janice in the bathroom line. How do you strike up a That’s when I showed up early in the morning for the fifth conversation with a naked stranger? I admired her tattoo. annual “Take Pride in Your Hide 5K Run/Walk,” a clothing- She offered me one. optional race at the nudist resort southwest of Reidsville. About 200 of us signed up to run. The 43-year-old Raleigh woman had come with friends, and they were all sporting temporary tattoos on their … Of course, I didn’t head off to the Bar-S without some ummm… backsides. She rubbed one on my thigh and advice — and one very big question from friends. welcomed me into the sisterhood. As for the advice, Dot Jackson of Eden suggested But mostly, I was hearing horror stories about the trail we sunglasses, preferably mirrored lenses so no one can tell were going to run. where you’re looking. My friend Claudine Burleson of Eden, a veteran marathon runner, told me to keep my eyes When a man handed me a paper cup filled with some on the trail. I don’t know where she thought I’d be looking. reddish-colored liquid and told me I’d need the energy, I gulped it down. Oh no, I thought. I’d just done something But mostly they wanted to know what women always want I’d warned my college-age daughter never to do — accept a to know — and what you are probably wondering, too: drink from a stranger (and a naked one, at that). What was I going to wear? Or in this case, not wear? What if it had something in it? Something that would take After winding down a gravel road, I was met at the gate by a away my inhibitions, the last thing I wanted to woman wearing a race T-shirt. I was relieved. And lose at a nudist resort. Maybe I should try to then I noticed that she was wearing only a race T- gag myself, I thought. shirt, a very short one. After checking my name off But there was no time. The race was her list of runners, she waved starting. I hovered near the back, away from me through the gate. the mass of bodies. I had no desire to be From then on, most of the trampled by some six-minute milers or, people I passed were wearing even worse, caught in the crush of bodies only smiles. At least they were friendly. vying for a spot out front. I drove past tiny houses — weathered-in campsites, they are No, the back was fine. officially called, said Ellis Stewart, who owns the Bar-S with It was tough. There were hills. No, make that mountains. his wife, Wanda. Terrain! I’m talking about the terrain. “They can talk about their rivers, but as far as I know, we’re probably the biggest tourist attraction in Rockingham The 3.1-mile course of treacherous, gooey red mud, tree County,” he said. roots and slippery descents is a series of trails within the resort, each named after women — masochists, if you ask The huts are about 300 square feet in size, Stewart said. One me. was all glass. Go figure. I slipped once, muddied my knee, but quickly scrambled to There also are campsites, a clubhouse, a nine-hole golf my feet before someone helped me up. course, a pool and a seven-acre lake. Janice “streaked” past me. Gary, the race organizer, assured me that I’d get over the shock of seeing naked people after a few minutes. Well, the “You go, girl,” she shouted. (Continued on next page)

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B8 of 10 I ran with Louie for a while. Like many I spoke with, the middle-aged man from Greensboro is a professional, a COPS SAY NUDE MAN WAS member of mainstream society. LOOKING FOR GUMP'S HOME Most of the runners were not members of the Bar-S. Like 7/26/05, Littleville, Alabama – A 26-year-old vagrant was Malcolm of Raleigh, they come one time a year, for the run, charged with indecent exposure after police found him and they do it for the novelty. standing naked in a cornfield chewing on a cob near a As we ran by the lake, a Monroeton fireman gave us a country club. "He said he wanted to see the house where welcomed dousing with the fire hose. That’s dedication for Forrest Gump lived," said Police Chief William Nale. you. And on a Saturday. What a guy! But then again, the Gump is the fictional character in a novel by Alabama proceeds from the entry fees are donated to the volunteer fire author Winston Groom that became a hit movie. department. He was spotted Monday morning near twin Pines Country On the final stretch, there was Janice. She had already Club. crossed the finish line, but she joined me for my sprint to the "He was standing in a cornfield, picking the corn and eating end. it raw," Nale said. "He didn't have anything on, not even his The clock showed 41 minutes and 58 seconds — a dismal 24 shoes. He was as naked as the day he was born." minutes behind the top female finisher, a 20-something Authorities said the man was taken into custody without any brunette from Raleigh, who came in right behind her trouble. boyfriend, who won the race. "I asked him where his clothes were and he said he got hot I have no proof, but it’s my theory that naked people run (Sunday night), took them off and laid them on the railroad faster than clothed ones. Hey, clothes are heavy! tracks and then couldn't remember where they were," Nale But who cared about winning? I was done. I had run the said. race. I had my column. The suspect told authorities that he was a homeless drifter On my way out, one of the race officials stopped me. I’d following the railroad tracks to south Alabama, where he placed third in my age group, she said. I needed to stick thought he would find the Gump home. around to pick up my medal. When I walked off the The Littleville police chief declined to release the man's clubhouse stage, a chorus of “My-la, My-la” began in one name Tuesday but said his family lives in Michigan and he corner of the room. had been in a California institution earlier this year. After his I’m pretty sure Janice started it. And Paula was right. I felt arrest, the man was taken for a mental evaluation. empowered. Source materials taken from an article in The Times Daily, Birmingham, Alabama Column by Myla Barnhardt, The News & Record and Landmark Communications, Inc. Greensboro, North Carolina. NO CAROLINA PROPOSES GRANDPARENTS CONCERNED DRASTIC DEFINITION OF ABOUT NUDIST GRANDSON “INDECENT EXPOSURE” We spotted this Q&A in a Boston Herald self-help column 7/15/05, Raleigh, North Carolina – A person would no on 08/09/05: longer have to be the opposite sex of an alleged victim to be convicted of indecent exposure in a bill heading to Gov. Q: We learned that our grandson vacations at a nudist Mike Easley's desk. colony. He's a mature 22, but we still worry about his morals and such. What do you think? -- Waltham, Mass. A compromise bill given unanimous approval yesterday by the House and Senate expands the crime to include same-sex A: Of all the "alternative lifestyles," nudity seems the least incidents. worrisome to us. Prancing around in your birthday suit while suffering the stings of insects and outraged members of North Carolina's existing law says the crime is committed society may not be your cup of tea, but a surprisingly large only when the victim and suspect are of the opposite sex. segment of Americans -- 17 percent in a 2003 poll, The bill also would create a new felony-level crime if the according to USA TODAY -- aspire to vacation at a locale exposure involved an adult perpetrator and a victim under 16 where clothing is optional. (We're told it's now a nudist years old. Otherwise, it would remain a misdemeanor. "resort," never "colony.") I really do not understand our Governor’s position on this While it would be conjecture for us to speculate on your one. I guess when I am dressing in the gym I will need a grandson's motivations for taking it all off, we gather that closet to get into so I do not expose someone. sharing the experience in the company of like-minded In Arkansas one of the few states that doesn't have Nudist individuals engenders feelings of equality and freedom. Resorts, you can be arrested for promoting, advertising, or Secondly, we think you should be more concerned about organizing a nudist get together, or even talking about it in melanoma than morals. public. You cannot be naked there [even in private] with Source: http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/health/view.bg?articleid=6132 other than you spouse [and children] with either gender, or anyone underage whether you are or not.

SCNA Newsletter On-Line Supplement for September 2005 Page B9 of 10 CHINA SKINNY-DIPPERS ILLINOIS NUDIST TO BE SPARK MORALITY DEBATE BURIED FULLY CLOTHED 07/27/05, BEJING - A heat wave in China has led to a rash AGAINST HIS WISHES of nude swimming this summer, sparking a moral debate over whether such skinny-dips should be allowed, a Aug. 02, 2005 -PERKIN, Ill. - Even in death, Robert newspaper reported Wednesday. Norton's nakedness is a no-no. "I was totally stunned and flushed at the first sight of these Norton, 82, spent four decades in and out of court fighting naked men," the China Daily quoted Zhao Yanjie as saying. repeated arrests for gardening and wandering his yard in the Zhao, who lives near a river bank in the northeastern nude. He said he wanted to be buried in the buff, but his province of Liaoning, was moved to call on police to prevent family is sending him to eternity wearing gray slacks and a such behavior after she and her family stumbled upon a matching shirt. group of nude bathers while out for an evening stroll. "He's not going to be buried in the nude," said his brother, "How can they do such disgraceful things in public?" she Jack Norton, a minister who lives in Columbus, Ohio. asked. Robert Norton's family said they hope to lay the years of Others argued that while naked swimming might be controversy to rest Thursday when the World War II veteran acceptable in Europe, it violated traditional Chinese customs is buried at the Rock Island National Cemetery. and ethics. "They display their bodies for their own convenience but Norton, who died Monday, argued in fighting 20 indecency disregarding the public interest," said Ai Lijuan, a university arrests since 1962 that he had a constitutional right to public lecturer in the seaside city of Dalian. nakedness. The swimmers were unrepentant. Theories abound over what was behind the retired railroad "We can fully relax ourselves and merge with nature," a clerk's long history of public nudity arrests. Relatives say swimmer who declined to give his name told the newspaper. Norton suffered emotional problems after serving in the old Army Air Force during World War II. Prosecutors counter His enjoyment of skinny-dipping did not make him an that he was just stubborn. exhibitionist, the man said. (Reuters.) "He was a naturist, and he just chose to be in the nude as MOLSON BEER TOUTS people who are seeking nature. He was a peace-loving person," said his brother, Duane Norton of Torrance, Calif. NUDIST-FRIENDLY SLOGANS Brenda Loete, who lived next door to Norton for a dozen Molson has just launched a new ad years before he moved into a nursing home after a fall, said campaign that's guaranteed to get she never spoke to her exhibitionist neighbor. people talking. The campaign centers around repackaging the Canadian beers "We didn't really know him. We just had him arrested," with "twin labels," one that features the Loete said. "Normally, if we had him arrested in the spring company's logo, the other displaying he'd be gone for the summer and we wouldn't have to worry one of 84 conversation-provoking about him until the next spring.” messages. The tagline that is being -- Source: Bellvillenewsdemocrat.com promoted through print and television ads suggests the twin labels allow Molson drinkers to "let CARTOON OF THE MONTH your Molson do the talking." What makes the campaign even better is that Molson has decided to incorporate some messages dear to the hearts of nudists everywhere. Label #117 states "As Me About My All Over Tan." Another label (#226) says "Clothing Optional." And don't forget "Skinny Dippers are People Too" (#44). Early evidence suggests the campaign is paying off. Distributors in the Northwest report collecting fewer empty bottles than they sell due to patrons taking bottles with their favorite slogans home with them. As USA Today stated in a recent column "Christian de Neuvillette had his Cyrano de Bergerac, and now thousands of tongue-tied barflies will have Molson Canadian beer labels to help them captivate the object(s) of their desire." Source: AANR Cyber Bulletin Archives, 07-29-2005

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