Naked News

[JC]

I noticed there was a nude news show here on the site and it reminded me of a web site I heard about a while back. I think it was called "Naked News" and all the anchors would stip while they were reporting the news. From the artical, I couldn't tell if this was a real nudist's site like this one or just some cheep porn. Has anyone ever heard of this site?

[JC]

I noticed there was a nude news show here on the site and it reminded me of a web site I heard about a while back. I think it was called "Naked News" and all the anchors would stip while they were reporting the news. From the artical, I couldn't tell if this was a real nudist's site like this one or just some cheep porn. Has anyone ever heard of this site?

[NumberOneNudist]

As far as I know, it is basically pornography. It probably gains most of its viewers from "horny men." But I guess a naturist might enjoy it nonetheless, since it is the real news, only in the nude.

I,just today ,received an ad in the mail from Comcast offering The Naked News on pay per view for $4.99...I think they have a website too..odb

[barelybob]

Naked News is not a porn site. It is simply a news show presented by people who are nude.

[Gary Naturist]

Naked News doesn't have the endorsement of the nudist establishment because they start out clothed and strip during the newscast. If they were nude at the start, they would be warmly endorsed.

From my point of view, anything that presents nude people doing everyday things (reading the news, sunbathing, cycling) is a good thing, because it helps desensitize non-nudists to nudity.

Naked News is another example of nude people who are not nudists advancing the cause of nudism, but getting no thanks from the nudist establishment.

Gary

[Bartamus]

GaryNaturist: Well said! Let nobody be confused..Naked News is not naturism by any stretch of the imagination. It is a strip show in which the "anchors" read the regular news that's available everywhere else.
INA's Nudes in the News is anchored by Nudecasters who are naturists. We highlight news stories that correspond with naturism worldwide.

[hemdale]

I have watched the Naked News many times (its posable to get a month internet subscription for 5 bucks). There is really nothing erotic about it, some of the news readers are nude for their entire report. If an anchor does remove their cloths its done about as erotically as a nudist removing their cloths at a resort. I'm told that viewers mail is split down the middle on preference to the news readers being nude or removing their clothes while reading. I?m at a loss for why the nudist groups with hold endorsement just because a minority of news readers remove their clothes on camera. To the best of my knowledge there are no nudist resorts in America only clothing optional resorts. And 99.9% of people arriving have to remove their clothes.

It should also be noted that they have a separate show of male news readers as well.

While the news readers are quick to say that they are not nudists, most of them admit to being very comfortable with their nudity. (I believe like many people they are confused about what a nudist is).

Sometimes they cover stories that I don't see else where since being Canadian they seem to cover the international news a little better then the USA. They don't cover nudist news and tend to give air time to swinger resorts rather then nudist resorts . But neither gets much air time.

They do have a verity of body types and followed one news reader through her entire pregnancy. On the whole the nudity is so boring that I used to frequently listen to the news in the background while making dinner and rarely watched my monitor.

Paul

[David77]

Hemdale states -
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>To the best of my knowledge there are no nudist resorts in America - only clothing optional resorts. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Not true. Probably the vast majority of the USA naturist resorts are NOT "clothing optional" but <u>nudity required</u>, when reasonable.

[missouriboy]

Yes, "nudity required" is generally the rule, but in my experience it's so laxly enforced as to be ludicrous. On perfectly beautiful days you'll see almost as many people with at least one article of textile as you will nudists, especially among the very young people.

[David77]

Missouriboy,
I, for one, hope that pubecent teenagers/young teenagers continue to be exempted by an unwritten "blind eye policy" at the "nudity required" resorts. These teen-agers are going through a very rough time in their life and if they are very uncomfortable with their puberty changes and frequent penile occurance, for example, and want to remain clothed, the only kind and considerate approach would be to let them choose their extent of dress/nudity.

Even at the clothing optional resort I attended, almost every adult was nude. I have seen hardly any clothed adults at "nudity required" resorts. However, I don't doubt that some resorts have lax enforcment of some nudity rules, as persons have reported in this forum.

[hemdale]

David 77 said

"Not true. Probably the vast majority of the USA naturist resorts are NOT "clothing optional" but nudity required, when reasonable."

What does this have to do with the Naked News? Even if the resort requires nudity people still undress. Could we please stay on topic?

Paul

[Bartamus]

Hemdale: Back to the subject of the Naked News.
I honestly don't believe the founders of that
website came up with idea of having naked women
and men read the news cause they are big believers
in naturism. I think they did it to attract people who fantasize about seeing female newsreaders naked.
INA's Nudes in the News..features Nudecasters who are there cause they enjoy the lifestyle.
We're dedicated to helping people get comfortable with all the aspects of International naturism

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gary Naturist:
Naked News doesn't have the endorsement of the nudist establishment because they start out clothed and strip during the newscast. If they were nude at the start, they would be warmly endorsed.

From my point of view, anything that presents nude people doing everyday things (reading the news, sunbathing, cycling) is a good thing, because it helps desensitize non-nudists to nudity.

Naked News is another example of nude people who are not nudists advancing the cause of nudism, but getting no thanks from the nudist establishment.

Gary <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Well that isn't actually true. AANR's director Erich Shuttauf did praise it in it's Bulletin about a year ago. He got a lot of flack for doing that too.

[Griffin]

The Naked News, for all its faults -- and I just look at its free introductions that last several minutes -- still get nudism out there and suggests its a comfortable and acceptable way to be. The hypocrisy comes in its segregating males and females into separate segments to somehow better serve clienteles. And that suggests viewers have sexual preferences with the bodies on the show, which does not meet the standards we seek. The cable TV show weekly, I believe, is only women, and that only underscores the fact it is not intentional about serving the causes of body acceptance and a clothing optional lifestyle. It then just becomes a tame girlie show in one sense.

[beavis]

I did check out the Naked News web site several years ago, but lately, I racall they want you to subscribe before entering the site (I didn't). But I did check out the TV/PPV Naked News on Friday nights - and yes, the news reporters used to start out clothed, then remove them until naked during their broadcast. This idea actually started in Russia, then the Canadians (Naked News is a Canadian show) picked up the concept and ran with it. The last time I saw it, a few months ago, it looked like NN reacted to the "strip show" criticism and changed their format. The reporters are nude throughout - no more stripping. While there are not yet any men reporters on the PPV broadcast, the web site does offer a male reporter version. Perhaps, NN will balance out their boradcast with equal male/female...hey!!!then they would be just like Clothesfree News!!!! Hey, CF got there first! HAHAHA /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Hooked]

I believe that The Naked News is not porn but it's intention is not wholesome either. It is meant to be tantalizing, although as many people have atested to here, it is not erotic in the least. I think, inadvertantly, this can be a very good thing for naturism because you can see a contrast between Nudes in the News and the Naked News...if a person was to view each one and compare the two, it would help show people what naturism is versus cheap thrill nudity. I think the Naked News does present an interesting concept however, reading the REAL news, not just naturist news in the buff. If it was presented in a matter of fact way without the obvious sexual slant (segregating male and female performances for example) then this would be a great way to incorporate naturism into the mainstream. Can you imagine if CNN had a naked newscasting day and it was not a sexual scheme to get more viewers. How cool would that be? What about other areas of media...nudist sitcom, right after 'Friends', music videos where nudity was used to promote body acceptance and not to convey sexual ideas (I do give props to Alanis Morrisett on this one) So, perhaps the Naked News is helping to bring nudity into the mainstream and Nude in the News is helping to draw the lines and make grey areas appear more black and white...I feel fine about the way these two programs are set up to interplay with one another, I think it will be good for naturism...even if the Naked News was never supposed to be.

[ned888]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Hooked:
I believe that The Naked News is not porn but it's intention is not wholesome either. It is meant to be tantalizing, although as many people have atested to here, it is not erotic in the least. I think, inadvertantly, this can be a very good thing for naturism because you can see a contrast between Nudes in the News and the Naked News...if a person was to view each one and compare the two, it would help show people what naturism is versus cheap thrill nudity. I think the Naked News does present an interesting concept however, reading the REAL news, not just naturist news in the buff. If it was presented in a matter of fact way without the obvious sexual slant (segregating male and female performances for example) then this would be a great way to incorporate naturism into the mainstream. Can you imagine if CNN had a naked newscasting day and it was not a sexual scheme to get more viewers. How cool would that be? What about other areas of media...nudist sitcom, right after 'Friends', music videos where nudity was used to promote body acceptance and not to convey sexual ideas (I do give props to Alanis Morrisett on this one) So, perhaps the Naked News is helping to bring nudity into the mainstream and Nude in the News is helping to draw the lines and make grey areas appear more black and white...I feel fine about the way these two programs are set up to interplay with one another, I think it will be good for naturism...even if the Naked News was never supposed to be. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>At one time they posted a history of the site. It was started by two men who wanted to show that they could make a lot of money on the show, following the example they had seen in Russia. When they began, you could see the show for free, but it was surronded by advertizements. They sold subscriptions that stated that you would get the program without advertizements. They changed their marketing strategy and the last time I checked, you could not see anything until you had paid a subscription. I chose not to do that, so I have not seen it recently.

[Gary Naturist]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Griffin:
The Naked News, for all its faults -- and I just look at its free introductions that last several minutes -- still get nudism out there and suggests its a comfortable and acceptable way to be. The hypocrisy comes in its segregating males and females into separate segments to somehow better serve clienteles. And that suggests viewers have sexual preferences with the bodies on the show, which does not meet the standards we seek. The cable TV show weekly, I believe, is only women, and that only underscores the fact it is not intentional about serving the causes of body acceptance and a clothing optional lifestyle. It then just becomes a tame girlie show in one sense. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I don't think that the Naked News is hypocritical, because they are not claiming to do this in the name of naturism.

They, and we, know that that the vast majority of men like to look at naked women (includes nudists as well) and that a lot of women (not sure how many, but this group also includes nudists) like to look at naked men.

We can still be pleased that, in addition to satisfying a sexual desire in people, their show is also "normalizing" nudity, by portraying it in an everyday situation.

I'm sure that many of their subscribers get desensitized to the nudity so that it becomes asexual. That benefits us nudists. For those who continue to be titillated, the situation is no different than before, so we're not worse off.

Gary

[Griffin]

I sent an e-mail this week to the Naked News feedback line and suggested that both the website and TV show should be gender integrated just as other conventional news shows that have both men and women. I noted that I watched their cable TV show only once because it was oddly only women. I got this response back:

I'm not sure if you've seen the debate that's taking place in the show, but
the fact is that co-ed web programs are very contentious. While somewhere
around half of people are for it, the other half are very much against it,
and point out that if they want to watch men, they'll watch the male show,
and if they want to watch women, they'll watch the female show. The
opinions are very strong!

Now, as for the TV show, it can also be a network issue. TV stations are
far more uptight about airing full-frontal male nudity than female. We
offer a male version of the TV show, but very few stations have chosen to
run it. If we added men to the female show and made it co-ed, it's very
likely that the stations would have the same reaction. We can control what
we provide, but we can't make stations show something they don't want
to. If you want the male show to be made available, we'd suggest that you
contact the station you've seen the female program on, and let them
know. They're the only ones that can put it on the air!

Thanks very much for writing. We do understand what you're saying, but we
hope you also understand that, first of all, some things are outside of our
control, and second, that we hear a LOT of differing opinions, and it's
especially hard when they ALL seem to make a degree of sense!

Naked News Feedback

[butnaked]

WHAT? I have no desire to pay to see Naked News or Nudecasters, as somehow the payola makes a complete hybochery of social nudism. IMHO It is bad enough that there are no free parks campgrounds or other public C/O areas (save a very few beaches). Why is it that nudist must pay to be together or see one- another except in thier own homes. (sorry I just caught myself steping up on that soap box again) /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[missouriboy]

Huh? Naked News isn't social nudism... it's a commercial endeavor put on by people who expect to get paid for their work. Nothing wrong with that!

[turkishnudes]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by butnaked:
WHAT? I have no desire to pay to see Naked News or Nudecasters, as somehow the payola makes a complete hybochery of social nudism. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Then that goes the same for this website too!

[Corky]

How would you expect us to work that hard, travel all over the world, buy $5,000 cameras, hire video editors, pay thousands a month for bandwidth, give away magazines, etc. and do it for free?

Most of the info on our site is free for the education of the public. How does charging for more services make a "hybochery" of nudism?

Every organized nudist club or association charges. They sell magazines, memberships, newsletters, t-shirts, etc. Everyone needs money to pay the bills of the business. It is all good.

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by butnaked:
WHAT? I have no desire to pay to see Naked News or Nudecasters, as somehow the payola makes a complete hybochery of social nudism. . . . Why is it that nudist must pay to be together or see one- another. . . ? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I think you have an excellent point. There ought to be a website that offers all the services that INA provides on theirs without any charge at all. It should all be free.

How 'bout you be the one to do that? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[turkishnudes]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Corky:
How would you expect us to work that hard, travel all over the world, buy $5,000 cameras, hire video editors, pay thousands a month for bandwidth, give away magazines, etc. and do it for free?

Most of the info on our site is free for the education of the public. How does charging for more services make a "hybochery" of nudism?

Every organized nudist club or association charges. They sell magazines, memberships, newsletters, t-shirts, etc. Everyone needs money to pay the bills of the business. It is all good. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Precisely!!!!

And Naked News has its own expenses too.

A fee for such things ( whether it be Naked news or this site) keeps the "exclusivity" for the serious user, and keeps the pervy lurker away.

By the way Corky, where do you travel "all over the world"? bet you have never come to do a report in Turkey!

[Corky]

We are based in California, but between all of the INA staff, we have been to Mexico, St. Martin, Spain, Florida, and more, plus we have a trip planned for France and Spain soon.