2. A painting of the classical Greek statue of "Venus de Milo" was removed from a shopping mall in Springfield, Missouri because it was considered too shocking. The original is one of the most popular attractions at the Louvre in Pads.
3. France's largest nudist colony (Cap d'Agde) attracts 40,000 European tourists each summer.
4. Spencer Tunick, an American artist, was able to collect 18,000 people to pose naked in the center of Mexico City for a photograph. There was very little objection to this feat in Mexico while Tunick's photography has raised controversy in the US.
5. In the US, material with sexual content falls outside the protection of the First Amendment if 1) the work, taken as a whole, appeals to a prurient interest in sex, as judged by contemporary community standards, 2) it portrays sexual conduct, defined by law, in a patently offensive manner, and 3) the work lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
6. According to Dutch law, people are allowed to be naked anywhere except public roads or when they annoy others.
7. The Dutch Naturist Federation, an organization established to expand naturist activities, contains 70,000 members.
8. When An An, a Japanese publication, solicited its female readers to send in nude photographs, it received over 1,600 entries.
9. In 1992, a Pennsylvania State University teacher removed from a reproduction of "The Nude Maja" from an art history classroom because she believed it to be sexual harassment.
10. The Doukhobors, a Christian group of Russian origin, staged highly publicized naked protests against materialism.
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