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It is only a matter of time before notorious Canadian nudist Emil Kaminski arrives in the clutches of police after four of his accomplices, including two women, were today served with four-day remand orders in the Kota Kinabalu Magistrates Court following their arrests yesterday. The quartet - two Candian brothers aged 22 and 23, a Dutch national and a British woman - were detained separately, three surrendered at the Kota Kinabalu District police headquarters and the other was arrested before boarding a flight at the Tawau Airport.

re hours after Politico reported on Republican Congressman Eric Yoder's admitted skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee in Israel, CBS highlighted the story on its Monday morning newscast. By contrast, the network was slow to report on former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner's lewd photo scandal in 2011. On June 1 of that year, ABC and NBC's morning shows reported on the "underwear uproar," while CBS's Early Show punted on the story. The following day, CBS played up conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's early role in spreading word of the New York liberal's indecent Twitter pic: "Supporters of Weiner note that it...

Nudists to lobby Capitol Hill this week By Jordan Fabian - 06/07/10 09:53 AM ET The nudist lobby is headed to Capitol Hill this week to discuss issues important to it with Congress. The American Association for Nude Recreation sent out a colorful press release Monday morning announcing the visit. While on Capitol Hill, the AANR will push back against "well-intentioned" Internet legislation it says could affect nudist websites and businesses. Here are some excerpts from the release. Kissimmee, FL (June 4, 2010) — Nudists with the American Association for Nude Recreation say there may not be a nude beach...

Future perfect Can a clothing-optional policy teach her young girls to be comfortable as women? By Jennifer Mattern June 28, 2009 I ain’t what I used to be. But my daughters don’t know that. They can’t imagine me any other way -- this soft, paunchy creature they have come to refer to as “Mom.” I tell them to take a good look, that someday they are likely to look much like I do now. They laugh. Preposterous! I grew up in a household where everyone’s jiggly bits were kept under wraps. Only once, when I was very young, do I...

APPENZELL, Switzerland — The Swiss like their secrecy, particularly in banking. At other times, they are more open. Take hiking. In recent years, it has become fashionable for a growing number of Swiss and some foreigners to wander in the Alps clad in little more than hiking shoes and sun screen. Last summer, the number of nude hikers increased to such an extent that the hills often seemed alive with the sound of everything but the swish of trousers. In September, the police in this mountainous town detained a young hiker, whose friends will identify him only as Peter, wandering...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A nude sunbather was arrested for attacking a dog owner with a baton on a local beach. Multnomah County investigators said the 45-year-old rafter pulled ashore at Sand Island near Rooster Rock Thursday with his four children and two Chihuahuas. The dogs ran ashore towards a nude beach, and deputies said it was then the naked suspect started hitting them with a collapsible, police-type baton. Then, officers said 74-year-old Donald Kenney, of Vancouver, advanced towards the victim with a can of mace and the raised baton. The victim fell backwards as Kenney pummeled him with the baton...

WOODSTOCK, Conn. - Here's the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren't getting any younger. To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything from deep discounts to a young ambassador program that encourages college and graduate students to talk to their peers about having fun in the buff. "We don't want the place to turn into a gated assisted living facility," said Gordon Adams, membership director at Solair Recreation League, a nudist camp in northeast Connecticut that recently invited students from dozens of New England schools to a college day in hopes...

Europe's second-highest ranking commissioner was fighting to save his political career last night over pictures showing him naked on a beach with his chief of staff.Günther Verheugen, who is married, is shown — wearing only a baseball cap — with his newly promoted aide, Petra Erler, on a nudist beach in Lithuania. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, rushed to the aid of his German Vice-President yesterday, saying that he expected “people’s private spheres” to be respected. However, controversy over Mr Verheugen, 62, who is also Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, is raging in Germany, three weeks before...

Board Decides To Take No Action On Anti-Nudity OrdinanceBRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Town officials in Brattleboro said the solution to what some see as the problem of people hanging around naked downtown may be just around the corner. It's called cold weather. But the Select Board has decided to take no action for now on a proposed anti-nudity ordinance. That means that until temperatures turn nippy, those who object to nakedness downtown may just have to grin and bare it. Select Board Chairman Steve Steidle said when things heat up again next spring, the town may take another look at the...

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. --Complaints about young people who spend time in downtown naked have prompted the Select Board to explore an anti-nudity ordinance. Groups of young people have been congregating in a downtown parking lot and enjoying the warm summer weather without clothing, and that bothers some local residents. "A parking lot is not a strip club. It's a parking lot," resident Theresa Toney told the Select Board last week. She said she has seen repeated instances of naked people hanging out downtown. "This is a problem. What about children seeing this?" Toney asked. Vermont has no law against nudity, though...

Joe Lettelier and his wife, Becky, are on the road in a bus, picturing naked people frolicking. Maybe you'd like to have Lettelier's complaint. Business is so good, he can't bear to retire just yet. What he'd really like to do at 61 is kick back, splitting time between homes on Florida's Gulf Coast and in the woods north of Atlanta. But this real estate niche is just taking off. The bus recently pulled into Paradise Valley Resort, an out-of-the-way enclave north of Atlanta that Lettelier and his partners bought and targeted for upgrades three years ago. Visitors pull up...

Call this tale "Nudie and the Beast." Former bodybuilder Mark DelCore, of Queens, is suing Fire Island officials for the right to have his dog escort him to the beach while he sunbathes nude - which he claims is the only medicine against a mysterious skin disease he contracted after 9/11. The 1998 Gay Games competitor said doctor's orders make it necessary for him to go au natural at the beach - and on top of that, he needs his spunky rat terrier, Cheekies, by his side because the dog provides "emotional support and comfort." A cloud of dust engulfed...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A nudist-colony controversy has heated up after the community ousted a man whose generator blew up and set him on fire. Paul Kuschel and his wife, Carol, enjoyed baring it all at Sunnier Palms Park, WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach reported. The natural way of life seemed to agree with the couple until two weeks ago when Kuschel was setting up his trailer in the nudist colony and his generator exploded, burning him all over. "I had shorts on, but it would have been better if I didn't because they melted to my body. I...

LONEDELL, Mo. — Some residents near this small eastern Missouri town are upset about plans for a resort — a nudist resort. Lawrence Enterprises Inc. of High Ridge, Mo., is seeking a permit for an RV park and campground along with the private nudist resort on 52 acres near Lonedell, about 50 miles southwest of St. Louis. Details will be discussed today at a meeting of the Franklin County Planning and Zoning Commission. Company President Lawrence Schulz said in a letter to the commission that in addition to RV sites, plans call for campsites, motel rooms, lease lots and permanent...

A male teacher who performed naked cartwheels in front of young female students during a school camp has been jailed for five months. Warren David Schneider, 37 of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Queensland District Court to seven counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 years under care. He was today sentenced to 15 months' jail suspended after five months. The court was told Schneider was an art teacher at a private school in Brisbane's south when he committed a series of sexual offences during 2002 against three girls, all of whom were then in Year 7 and...

In his quest for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Rep. Mark Foley has rankled a group that is barely covered in most elections: nudists. Foley, of West Palm Beach, has hit the national TV and radio talk-show circuit in recent weeks to bash a Tampa-area summer camp not unlike most camps -- except that the boys and girls, ages 11-18, are naked. Foley, a Republican hoping to replace Sen. Bob Graham, says that letting naked teenagers play together is immoral and potentially dangerous. But ''naturists'' who say the camp exposes their children to a perfectly healthy and wholesome education...

FOLEY LAUNCHES WEBSITE URGING PUBLIC TO HELP STOP CHILD NUDIST “CAMP” WASHINGTON – Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL), Co-Chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, today launched a new website that allows the public to get involved in stopping a Florida child nudist “camp” from putting kids in harms way. The new site -- www.votervoice.net/groups/foley -- allows the public to send e-mails to Governor Jeb Bush, Attorney General Charlie Crist and state legislative leaders encouraging them to take measures to shut down these “camps.” “Getting the public involved is crucial to our efforts to protect children,” Foley said. “The...

Organizers say teens' nudist summer camp is innocent fun BOB LEWIS Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. - Activities for kids this summer at Camp White Tail: swimming, volleyball, arts and crafts, splattering a fellow camper's nude body with pudding. White Tail, a nudist park in southeastern Virginia's Southampton County, opens its first summer camp for the 11-to-18 age group Saturday - only the third such au naturel camp for juveniles in the nation, according to the American Association of Nude Recreation. Bob Roche, who manages the camp on 45 bucolic acres, said the weeklong get-together is no big deal for the...

Vegetarianism, Anti-Capitalism, Pacifism, Anti-death-penalty-ism, Nudism, the Sexual Revolution and Liberalism: The Common Link The anti-capitalism/world bank protests of recent years, and the current protests against the looming war with Saddam's Iraq, along with various other '60s era sentiments controlling many in our generation all over the world, have brought up the question: What do these freaks all have in common? A straight-forward answer is this: All reject the classic theological principal, held by traditional Christians of various denominations the world over, of original sin. America's founding fathers, while not all churchmen--or committed Christians (though with a lot fewer (if any...

Getting a grip on the war with Iraq: The 'wrested' of the story... by Greg Swann To set the record straight, neither the Marquis de Lafayette nor Thaddeus Kosciuszko are known to have been nudists. Nevertheless, to have attended a large Kosciuszko Day celebration is to have been cured forever of the compulsion to gaze upon unsightly women, naked or clothed. Perhaps that counts for something. For those who can resist the urge to seize upon irrelevancy, no matter how ready to hand, how one feels about the forthcoming war--or what one does to protest it, stitchlessly keeping the...