In modern media, images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of images of nudity.
The use of nudity in advertising tends to be carefully controlled to avoid the impression that the company whose product is being advertised is indecent or unrefined. There are also (self-imposed) limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. The success of sexually provocative advertising is claimed in the truism “sex sells”. However, responses to nudity in advertisements have been more mixed; nudity in the advertisements of Calvin Klein, Benetton, and Abercrombie & Fitch, to name three companies, have provoked much negative as well as positive positive
We want to document, celebrate and question the most imaginative, interesting, funny and even thought-provoking advertising campaigns that feature nudity. And that is why we started The Nude Statesman website, have a look and tell us what you think.
THE attempts of "Playboy" publisher Hugh Hefner to cash in on the benefits of naked yoga outraged Hindu leaders, who say that the porn king had exposed the practice for "mercantile greed."
For centuries, India’s Hindu sects espoused the benefits of nudity, with holy men trekking for miles across the subcontinent wearing little more than a smile as they strive to uncover their true divine nature.
A video from Playboy featuring Sara Jean Underwood, a former Playmate of the Year, performing yoga poses, has angered Hindu elders, in what they see as the latest in a string of attempts to commercialise an ancient and spiritual practice.
“Hindus are upset over what is the misuse of the age-old and revered system of yoga by Playboy for mercantile greed, and we are urging the organisation to withdraw all its yoga-related products,” said Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism.
“Yoga is one of the six systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy and it is highly revered in Hinduism. It is a serious mental and physical discipline by means of which the human soul can unite with the universal soul.”
The criticism is the latest salvo to be fired in what some dubbed the yoga wars, a series of disputes over the alleged hijacking of yoga for profit.
The yoga industry is estimated to be worth $6 billion a year in the US alone, where recently-invented variations include yoga for pets and hot nude yoga.
Money-making yogis scandalised yoga’s purists who believe that the true goal should be the attainment of moksha, a blissful release from the endless cycle of rebirth and death.
India, the birthplace of the art, is striking back at what it calls yoga theft by those who claim techniques that may date back thousands of years as their own inventions.
“Yoga deals with spirituality,” said V. K. Gupta, the head of India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, a government-funded database that is in the process of recording hundreds of yoga poses to ensure that foreign gurus cannot patent them.
“Attempts to trademark the ancient property of humanity are offensive - they hurt,” he added.
NOTE: i-Naked.info has found the videos in question online and after watching them, doesn't consider them to be exploitive. However, that's maybe because I'm looking at them thought the eyes of a naturist and choosing not to take any notice of Playboy's involvement. Have a look for yourself and please tell me what you think in the comments below.
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PS" Please also take note that i-Naked.info does NOT in any way endorse or is sponsored by Playboy.
The public Belgian TV Channel VRT made a great documentary on the activities of the Ukrainian women's organisation FEMEN. It was broadcasted in the weekly 'Terzake' news show on July 11, 2011.
"In modern media, images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of images of nudity. The use of nudity in advertising tends to be carefully controlled to avoid the impression that the company whose product is being advertised is indecent or unrefined. There are also (self-imposed) limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. The success of sexually provocative advertising is claimed in the truism "sex sells". However, responses to nudity in American advertisements have been more mixed; nudity in the advertisements of Calvin Klein, Benetton, and Abercrombie & Fitch, to name three companies, have provoked much negative as well as positive positive response..."
We at i-Naked.info like most people believes that Sex Sells, but sometimes the advertising agencies do create some imaginative, interesting, funny and even thought-provoking advertising campaigns.
So to highlight the best that the advertising agencies have created, i-Naked.info has started to document any adverts that use nudity. We hope this could start a wider debate about nudity in mainstream society and maybe find new methods of how we could promote non-sexual nudity to the masses.
To get started here is a nude video Commercial by the Ministry Of Sound
QUESTION: How do you feel watching this video? Would you be offended to see these images in this on normal TV? Can nude advertising be creative and inhibiting, or is it sometimes inappropriate? Watching it as a naturist, I see nothing wrong, just young people (maybe young naturists) enjoying the music. But I can see from another viewpoint that some might see this as just using sex to sell a product. Leave your comments below:
I wrote this in response to a plastic surgery ad I saw in the menu at a restaurant in California. It was this picture of a human barbie doll who's name was apparently Kimberly Henry, and it said "indulge yourself". The next day, on an airplane, I wrote this.
Sorry for the awful delay in the video.
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These are the words: Dear Kimberly Henry, I saw your ad last night. The menu at the cheesecake factory -- your smile so bright on the page next to the page with the weight management salads. So people have to know the calories of every order, or they might accidentally indulge themselves in flavor, and that's not right? Because your ad says I should indulge myself under the knife. Because something about me is so broken and wrong? That I have to listen to every line of your song? And follow every rule of your game? Go on a diet? Change my name? Or go insane at my own reflection, or the scale? Start calling myself an ugly pig cow whale? Or remember I'm human, that's all I can be. And my humanity is more beautiful than any sad plastic dream. No, cuz if I let myself get happy, I might get fat. Which I guess is even worse than being empty and needing? Or on a table cut open and bleeding? Or obsessing over numbers, or hiding behind clothes? Or really believing there's no way I'll glow unless change this, lose this, cut this, change that? You know what? I'd rather be fat. I'd rather be really fat, not just a pinch of some skin. I'd rather remember that food isn't sin, because fat's just a word like blonde haired, or brown eyed. And when's the last time somebody starved themselves until they died, because their eyes weren't blue, even though they tried? And you know what? The things you tell yourself are lies. And they aren't your lies. You aren't that creative. You aren't the first one infatuated with self hatred. You're just part of the chain on a rusty old bike, and you've been pushed into the ground all of your life. Because it's so accepted? So wide spread and celebrated. That skinny is happy and fat is wrong? It's written all over magazines and billboards and love songs and in me and in fucking everybody, so I wonder, Kimberly. What happened to you? That you risked your own life attempting to be beautiful? And you tell other girls that's what they should do? And you reap love and peace like the grimmest reality, and when I'm trying to eat you're all over my menu? Kimberly Henry, fuck you. How dare you tell girls that plastic surgery is fun? That they have to char their skin under a fake sun, and put plastic in their chest to be any fun, to laugh and to tease and weight and reweigh and spend day after day spreading more bullshit and causing more pain? For the sake of their makeup, staying out of the rain. More terrified to gain a pound t han their health and dreams hitting the ground, shattered by this cloud of despair that's infecting people everywhere, so you can find little girls who only care about skipping lunch, and they don't even know, that in some reality, this isn't acceptable. To scream at women all day and all night, how is it any better than when when women didn't have any rights? Because yeah I can vote, and get a job, but I have to shave my legs, get a tan, go on a fast, get a man, lose the weight as fast as I can, boast, compare, cry, lie, and die? Fuck yeah I can vote, and I can also fly away from this whole sea of toxic muck. Because I don't really give a fuck what you say, and if you think I should have a problem with that? No thanks, I'd rather be fat.
This is a live recording with no editing from the DejaNude Net's Cam. In this lengthy topic we discuss personal situations with our mother-in-laws.
The Plot: Jerry is okay with his nudism and he tries to confront his mother-in-law about his personal lifestyle. Listen to this vlog to hear a letter she wrote in reply to Jerry's desire to gain her acceptance. Also witness a personal part of Melissa's life while she strives to continue living a naked lifestyle even after her mother-in-law moves in to her one bedroom apartment.
Interview with Carla Watson of GoTopless.org, on a woman's right to be topfree in public the same as men, on August 23, 2009, in Goodale Park, Columbus, Ohio.
Diary of a Nudist is a 1961 American film directed by Doris Wishman. The film is also known as Diary of a Girl Reporter, Diary of a Naturist, Girl Reporter Diary, Nature Camp Confidential, Nature Camp Diary and Nudist Confidential.
Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor to the camp so she can write an expose on the camp and have it shut down. However, much to her surprise, Stacy finds that she enjoys the nudist lifestyle and writes some very positive articles on her experiences, which doesn't sit well with Arthur. Arthur then decides to join the camp himself and write his own story.
Nudist camp documentaries were really in vogue from the late 50's up until the mid 60's. This particular entry holds the distinction of being one of the few that boasts both male and female nudity alike, meaning that there's something for everyone in this flick. We get to see guys and gals in their birthday suits jump rope, work out with weights, snap each other with towels, frolic in a pool, eat watermelon, play tennis, bounce up and down on a trampoline, ride skateboards, and generally have fun sans clothes. Meanwhile, ubiquitous 70's trailer voice guy Ron Gans tackles narrator chores with his trademark hearty aplomb; he prattles on constantly about modesty vs. immodesty, the positive virtues of erotic literature, and the damaging psychological effects of wearing clothes. Moreover, we also hear some dubious facts about nudists (they are actually very ethical people and a majority of them are married). This film gets pretty preachy with its anti-censorship ranting and of course goes heavy on advocating freedom and independence. The bright hand-held color cinematography by Jack Hill and Robert Wilson gives the picture an attractive sunny look. The stock library score of canned classical music adds a nice respectable touch. An amusing piece of nudie cutie fluff.
TEXT SOURCE URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189959/
Girls walk topless through US city in protest Organiser Ty MacDowell, 20, said the protest in Portland, Maine, was aimed at showing the double standards in the state of Maine.
Men are allowed to walk down the street shirtless but, although not illegal, women are too afraid to go topless.
Jodie enters a strange world when the house she moves into seems full of nude people. Is it a dream, hallucination, a prank or paradox? Filmed in Toronto, Canada in 2000. Televised on Canal+ in France, Switzerland, Monaco and Mauritius in 2001 and screened at many film festivals. A short film by Thomas Lundy of Lundoxia Pictures.
