Saturday, August 23, is National Go Topless Day, an event put together by the women behind GoTopless.org, as a nationwide protest honoring the Constitutional right to bare breasts. Women should have rights equal to men, and if men can bare their breasts in public, women should be able to as well!

Also check out this post on Nerve.com for a convenient summary of the day’s events in the city nearest you.

Let’s face it, the reality of nude beaches in America is that most of the nudists there are old and fat.  The sexy young women are either at the non-nude beaches in bikinis, or at the topless beaches in Europe and elsewhere overseas.  Fortunately, Hegre Art has come to the rescue with four sizzling galleries of nude beaches as they should be - full of stunningly beautiful naked girls and no one else.

Click on any of the photos below to view the free nude galleries.

Now you know why soccer is called “the beautiful game”.  Austria’s topless women’s soccer team beat Germany 10-5 on Sunday:

The traditional swapping of shirts afterwards was not an option as the six-a-side teams wore nothing but thongs, with the national colors painted on to their bare skin.  The football may not have been of the highest quality but that did not temper the enthusiasm of a mostly male crowd

Read the full story about this titillating game, along with many more photos - click here.

The latest video from Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, "Gobbledigook", is absolutely fantastic. It’s a must-see for fans of nudes in nature. The music is excellent too.  Gobbledigook is the first single from their new album "með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust" ("with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly"), which will be released in late June.

[Gobbledigook music video - high | medium ]

Spencer Tunick is a New York artist famous for staging photographs of large nude gatherings in public places. His latest work of art, sponsored by Greenpeace, took place on Aletsch glacier in Switzerland last Saturday. About 600 nude volunteers formed a “living sculpture” in an effort to promote awareness of climate change. Most of Swizerland’s glaciers are expected to disappear by 2080 as a result of global warming. The temperature during Tunick’s photoshoot hovered around 50 ° F (10 ° C) - there must have been lots of shrinkage (and erect nipples).

[Hundreds pose nude on glacier]

Power Robot has some recent photos of the latest annual Naked Race at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The winner gets free beer!

If you’re interested in attending the festival next year, mark your calendars for July 3-6, 2008 - and start exercising.

Power Robot also has a fantastic photo for reminding tourists to respect local customs while traveling abroad (when in Rome…).

MSNBC reports that a few tourists were recently charged with “disrupting public peace” and fined $150 for cycling nude along the Danube River in Serbia, where temperatures have hovered over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celcius) for the past week. Seems like a small price to pay for cooling off in such sweltering heat!

June 21 is not only the summer solstice, it’s Naked Hiking Day:

“It’s a celebration of the commencement of summer, an expression of the freedom of being in the midst of nature, and basically an excuse to get naked.”

The holiday is most commonly observed on the Appalachian Trail. Unfortunately, here in New England, it’s a surefire way to get eaten alive by blackflies and mosquitoes.

The first ever “Dancin Naked Under the Stars” clothing-optional music festival will be held this Saturday, May 19, 2007, at the DeAnza Springs Resort in the beautiful California desert. Bands scheduled to perform include Zydeco Patrol, Phat Daddy, Three Day Ole Beaver, 6 Inch Man, and Half Past Zero. Some additional info on the festival can be found at the Nudist Day blog.

“Eco Nudes” is a website that some of you may be interested in:

Eco Nudes represents the Nudist and Naturist who is positively committed to sane ecological principles to help ensure that Mankind may survive the coming ecological upheavals facing the world. Eco Nudes strive towards a Vegetarian/Vegan Nudist/Naturist Lifestyle, believing that such a lifestyle offers the best chance for survival, real peace and harmony.

Personally I’m too much of a carnivore to go vegetarian, but I try to eat organic meat from local farms whenever possible. Tastes great, less polluting! In any case, Eco Nudes have their heart in the right place, and their desire to take some personal responsibility for reducing the effects of climate change is admirable.