Nude As The News

Oh, if you have not seenthe current edition of the Center City Weekly Press, you are missing out. Why, you might ask? Well, if you don’t live downtown, you can click that photo above to enlarge the cover. Or, you can just read this: Penis on the cover!

Okay, it’s not that large of a photo and the resolution sucks, but it’s still two naked men standing next to each other on the cover of a non-pornographic newspaper. Woo hoo! It’s good to see nudity making it into our weekly papers. The Daily News is sure to follow any day now.

The reason for the above cover photo is this week’s lead story — written by, who else, Thom Nickles — is about a recent nudist gathering hosted by Philadelphia Area Naked Guys (or PANG). I’m sure you’re looking for a money paragraph, and I’ll grant your request:

I made my bed, disrobed, and then covered myself in sun block. They say that nudism inspires body confidence as well as helping you to accept your “flaws.” In a nudist camp you very quickly find out that everybody has some sort of body flaw, even the so-called “perfect people.” A Tom Cruise look-a-like, for instance, may have pottery barn love handles or a protruding beer belly; a handsome weight lifter may have spotty skin or an unseemly large mole on his buttocks. An otherwise attractive man may have thick “fossilized” toenails, Anorexia thin legs, or a severe case of Rosacea.

Yep. I’m sure the attendees at the camp all felt better about their body image until their flaws were pointed out in the newspaper.

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