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Lying in bed, caressing my swelling stomach, pondering the changes our daughter would bring to our lives, my partner brought up the question of nudity. There was much back-and-forth about where and when nudity would be appropriate and after what...
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The fracas over Kathleen Neill’s photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has brought up lots of questions about our attitudes towards public nudity, and exposed the discomfort and horror with which many people still view the (real life)...
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A lesbian sex scene cut from the original production of the 1998 TV movie Gia has begun to circulate on the web. The telefilm helped catapult Angelina Jolie to international fame. The actress was awarded both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her hard-...
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Space travel has fascinated adults and children for centuries. Astronauts often find themselves bombarded with questions about what it's like out there, but NASA, it seems, feels that some questions are too much of a giant leap for anyone to answer...
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Everybody assumes that most political craziness happens inside the Washington beltway, and indeed, the District of Columbia is something of a giant theater of the absurd. However, it is in the small towns of this great nation that irony and comedy...
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Yesterday, in case you missed it, was National GoTopless Protest Day, when men and women alike stripped down in parades across the country to combat gender inequality in dress code. Marches in New York City, Venice Beach, Chicago, Portland, and...
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The governing body of Glasgow, Scotland's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has refused to show three works of art by artist Dani Marti commissioned for sh[OUT], a controversial exhibition celebrating the lives and history of LGBT people, because...
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The inimitable Dan Savage, the snarky sex columnist and faggot extraordinaire, may be expanding his media empire. He announced on his blog today that he is negotiating with HBO to bring Savage Love to the small screen (or flat screen or big flat...
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The town of Ashland, Oregon, may have exposed itself legally with its ban on full-frontal nudity in certain municipal areas. In 2004, the city council adopted a ban on the display of genitals in the downtown area and in public parks; the rest of the...
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In his book, Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke, Russell Peterson writes: “The difference between mere truth-telling and the contemplation of truthiness lies in the distinction between merely pointing out the...
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Some of you may have read my article on nude modeling, and how it has affected the way I view myself, sexuality, art and society. However, being naked is a very different experience for individual men, and our culture looks much more favorably upon...
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A video of actor and hearthrob Channing Tatum dancing a parody of a Patrick Swayze routine from the film Dirty Dancing hit the web a week ago. But it seems that Tatum is no stranger to dancing. He started his career as a male stripper at a...
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For her first nude role on television, Lucy Lawless, star of the long-running series Xena: Warrior Princess and Battlestar Galactica, had to hit the gym. "I do have to work out. Being naked on-screen is no fun," said the 41-year-old...
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If you've spent the last six months curled up at the bottom of a hole somewhere in the Antarctic with no cell service or WiFi and only a few especially misanthropic penguins to talk to, you might have an excuse for not hearing about Sacha Baron...
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In attempt to lure some looky-loos away from the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue feeding frenzy, ESPN The Magazine announced today that it will publish an annual 'Body Issue,' which will feature pro, amateur and Olympic athletes posing...