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Swiss Authorities to Hikers: Cover Up Your Junk

The Swiss are known for a relatively welcoming attitude to alternate lifestyles, but that tolerance doesn't extend to naked hiking anymore. As the BBC News points out, officials in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden recently passed legislation requiring hikers to keep their nasty bits covered, and failure to do so is now an offense punishable by hefty fines. Locals noticed an influx of nude ramblers last year - most commonly Germans who embrace a "free body culture" lifestyle - but they didn't have a law on the books to prosecute them. Authorities say that the new law - which was was rushed onto the books in advance of the 2009 hiking season - is designed to protect the many children who hike with their families in the scenic area. We're all for freedom of expression, but we'd hate to have our gorgeous mountain vistas interrupted by the pale, jiggly flesh of some insurance salesman from Frankfurt letting it all hang out. Would-be naked hikers might want to keep an extra sock or fig leaf on hand, just in case the morality police come swooping in.

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Queenslanders Fix Economic Meltdown With More Sex

The economic meltdown obviously has an effect on tourism, and the northern Queensland White Cockatoo Resort knows it. That’s why the nudist resort is turning to sex parties and swinger guests to boost its diminishing bookings, with March 2009 designated an anything goes, adults only month.

The White Cockatoo has seen its fair share of raunchy guest behavior but banned that kind of naughty stuff a few years ago when (among other incidents) a pair of nudists in their 50s complained about "a rowdy display of balcony sex before breakfast."

After "indirectly" advertising this month of hedonism, the resort is almost fully booked for March. And yes, the resort owner really said this when asked why he'd reversed the ban:

Tough economic times call for stiff measures.

Our italics. But none of this over breakfast, please.

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Free Body Culture Germans in Trouble With Poles

Remember our interest in the first nudist flight? Sadly, it got canceled due to "moral concerns"--and now another spot where Germans love to run around naked is under threat.

Now that border controls between Germany and Poland are basically extinct, Polish people on the Baltic Sea coast are able to wander to Germany and vice versa, and that means a clash of the naked and the clothed.

The more prudish Polish want the German fans of "free body culture" to cover up; the Germans think the Polish should stop looking at them so closely. The only proposed solution at the moment is bilingual signs explaining what's going on. As if that isn't already obvious to the, well, naked eye.

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Nude Travel: Be Suspicious When You Strip

Caveat nudus. You may dream of flying in the altogether or cruising commando, but the people around you might not agree to demurely look away.

Blogger Erin of brieflynoted took a photo of what she believed was an old woman sitting naked in Brooklyn's Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. No one could have been more surprised when the individual in the picture, a man who claimed to be wearing a yellow thong, found her photo on Flickr and left her a comment.

The subject didn't seem that embarrassed, but we hope our blurry outlines never turn up on the photo sharing site. Makes us long for a nice, prudish beach.

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[Photo: Spencer Tunick, a photographer who specializes in gathering and capturing nudes in large numbers]

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Naked On A Plane

You might be surprised to know we've informed you about nude cruises before. What we haven't been able to promote until now is the pleasure of a nude flight. But we're pleased to tell you that gap in the market has been filled by a German tour company.

Apparently the Germans are rather fond of showing the world their private bits--they have some hotels where you're even allowed to eat in the restaurant naked. So a flight is not much of a stretch. The inaugural nude flight is scheduled for July 5, 2008, as a day trip from Erfurt to the Baltic resort of Usedom.

Just 55 people will be able to get a ticket for this trip--they're using a small plane--and none of them will be able to take their clothes off until after takeoff. And the flight attendants will be leaving their clothes on, for safety reasons. This sounds like one flight on which no one will care if the in-flight entertainment system fails.

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Homorati To Cruise The Mediterranean In May

The folks over at Globorati, a most excellent luxury travel blog, let us know about a gay nude luxury voyage set for this May, complete with plenty of, um, gadgets, of course.

Sail into uncharted waters aboard a luxury Windstar yacht replete with flat-screen TVs and iPods for 148 guests who'll visit ports in Rome, Athens, Sorrento and Mykonos. Just imagine a gaycation without the attitude.

Yup, there it is, plain as day in the website's disclaimer--This voyage is for men who enjoy sailing nude.

The cruise organizers also promise "an Internet Café steps from the Roman ruins".

Gaycations, social networking cruises, and the possibility of clothes free wireless--sounds like Homorati 2.0 has arrived.

[Photo: dominiqs81]

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