Interesting Facts

Germany's Bild newspaper, the world's seventh-biggest newspaper, has stopped printing its page one girl. (The page one girl, usually a busty, semi-clad and sometimes completely naked woman has been a staple at breakfast time all over Germany for years. The German tabloid declared, "It is perhaps a small step from the viewpoint of women, but it is a big step for Bild and for every man in Germany."  Even more amusingly they reprinted a headline from May 1970 - ''Women have less in the head than men'' - and announced that ''this headline is of great embarrassment today''. The Sun, which started showing topless page 3 girls in 1970 and was an inspiration for the Bild, declined to comment on Bild's move,)

Sexting is a mix of two terms - Sex and Texting. (Seemingly sexting (a word I only just learnt because of the previous post) is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones. The participants are usually teenagers or 'tweens', who seem to enjoy creating and exchanging provocative messages and nude, sexual images of themselves using their cell phone’s built-in digital camera and text messaging capabilities. The term was first popularized around 2005, but I only just found out about it because of the previous post)! My advice to anyone who thinks this sounds cool is, if you wouldn't want your granny to see it, don't send it.)

Switzerland does not have a law against public nudity. (However, it it does have a law against public indecency, and so in Switzerland you can be fined for hiking naked in the mountains. Personally I would have thought the law of nature would discourage this practise, as it gets very cold up there.) Source

Public nudity is legal in San Francisco. (In recent years a group known informally as Naked Guys have shown unbridled enthusiasm for appearing in the nude. I think Steven Gough (aka the Naked Rambler ) should be a big hit there.)

It is not illegal to be naked in public in the UK. (Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 it is not an offence to be nude in public in England or Wales, but it does become an offence if it can be proved the person stripped off with the intention to cause distress, alarm or outrage.)