University of Portsmouth

Nude charity calender faces the axe after unedited pictures were posted online | Mail Online
Pictures of students from the University of Portsmouth's calendar have ended up on porn websites.
Photographs have also been posted on forums where they have been viewed and commented on thousands of times.
The pictures which went into the calendar were edited to preserve the girls' modesty, but the ones uploaded online were unedited.

I'm a little concerned that the Daily Mail doesn't know how to spell "calendar", but that's a minor issue here.

So, how did "unedited" pictures get out in the first place? The internet doesn't creep into your computer and suck things out of it.

Makers of the calendar believe a university student may be responsible for uploading the photos.

Gee, ya think? That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou.

The calendars have raised quite a bit of money over the years. I'm sorry to see the girls, the school, and the charity suffer for their good intentions.

See also University of Portsmouth Student Union.

See also Portsmouth News, Telegraph, Metro, TNT Magazine.

North Otago Rugby Union

Nude, boozy fundraiser causes concern - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nzThe Alcohol Advisory Council has expressed concern about a calendar featuring nude North Otago rugby players surrounded by Speight's beer as a fundraiser for junior rugby.
The calendars, which are a first for the North Otago Rugby Union, are selling for $20 each and have been on sale for a month with 1000 distributed.

See also the Timaru Herald. It can be ordered from the North Otago Rugby Union.

Can't we all just get along... naked?

Well, this was unexpected.

Naked fury! Why Calendar Girls are going into battle - The Independent

The amateur rights for the [stage] play, based on the true story of members of Rylstone and District Women's Institute in Yorkshire stripping off for a charity calendar, are being released for the first time for 12 months from 1 September next year. The producers hope to establish a Guinness World Record for the most productions of one play in a year, with a percentage of the royalties going to Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

But the limited window – combined with unprecedented demand – is frustrating drama groups. Mr Pugh has received angry telephone calls from some "very forthright" amateur dramatics societies complaining that other local groups are also planning to stage the play. In some cases, they are "fighting over" the same theatre or church hall.

Now, if every group who wanted to produce this play just ignored the others and went ahead and did it, I could foresee a number of things happening.

• A world record well and truly shattered
• Massive amounts of money for leukemia research, surely not a bad thing
• An unprecedented amount of female nudity (of, ahem, more mature nature than average)
• Saturation of the market?

Really? That's what they're afraid of? Too many naked old ladies? And they can say that with a straight face?

Puppy Love

A charity calendar has upset animal lovers and vets alike after it featured racy images of scantily-clad women in bizarre poses with dogs that they say suggested bestiality.

The 2011 Puppy Love calendar is intended to raise money for an animal rescue charity in Wicklow, Ireland.

...The photographs have caused quite a stir, especially when for the month of March 22-year-old Polish model Agata Dembiecka is shown holding a small dog at her naked breast. [Sify news.]

Well, a quick look at the photographer's page reveals (ahem) that the image isn't out of character. For the record, I don't disapprove. On the other hand, I realize it isn't everyone's cup of tea, so if you want to see it, you're going to have to click through. (This calendar doesn't precisely fit this site's mission, since the models are professional models. I don't care.)

€12.00 from Puppy Love

Men of MedRecruit 2009

That’s right, a small selection of the wonderful doctors of MedRecruit have stripped down to bare almost all for the 2009 Men of MedRecruit calendar, all in the name of charity.

The calendar - inspired by the movie ‘Calendar Girls’ - is aimed at being a fun way of raising money for the charity The New Zealand Prostate Foundaion.

Buy it here. Read more in the Otogo Daily Times (including their first-choice charity's disavowals). The article also promises a 2010 calendar...

Does Female Nudity Always Objectify Women?

From Sociological Images: Does Female Nudity Always Objectify Women?:

Giorgio S. sent us a link to a news story about a feminist organization, Scottish Women’s Aid, who turned down a donation earned through the sale of a girly calendar featuring naked women. They argued that accepting the donation would be akin to supporting the sex trade. Here’s the link; it’s worth taking a look.

The story raises some great questions about when women’s nakedness is objectification. Is it always objectifying to show women’s naked bodies? Is objectification inevitable in a sexist society? Is objectification sometimes in the eye of the beholder? Or are there instances, even in a sexist society, in which women’s naked bodies might avoid objectification or, even, resist it?

The women, in this instance, are the employees of Coco’s Hair Design. Here are some stills from the video clip that give us an idea of what the calendar looked like:

More photos at the source article.