The first thing everybody at Lake Como Nudist Resort seems to want to tell me is they're not like those creeps over at Caliente, the resort up the street. "They're not even nudists," says a nurse in her late 40s, with a red sarong around her waist and grand breasts that rest just short of it, as she drinks a beer at the Butt Hutt, the resort bar. "They're swingers," she hisses softly.

The controversial "Nude Men" (NSFW) exhibit at Vienna's Leopold Museum is making headlines once again.

When the video of a guy talking about filming a naked "gorilla" man is as entertaining as the video of the naked "gorilla" man itself, that's how you know you're in Philadelphia, city of stars, cast of lunatics.

San Franciso is a city in which men and women are free to flaunt their respective junk in public without fear of arrest. America! What harm can a little dick or ass cause to a community if isn't swinging in your face or contaminating public seats? The answer is "a lot," according to perfectly named City Supervisor Scott Wiener.

In 2008 I went to San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair with my then-girlfriend and saw the oddest instance of public nudity I'd ever come across. It was a guy in a mask who was naked from the waist down and sitting motionlessly in a doorway, ostensibly unperturbed by the thousands of people milling around about him. I was confused as to why someone might wear a T-shirt and socks but no pants or underwear, but the man himself didn't seem unsure of a thing. He didn't even move when another, younger man came out of the door he was obstructing, forcing the resident to quietly step over him as if he were the one doing something strange.

The naturist community is a mysterious one. Participants frolic about their resorts, aging genitals exposed to the sun above and vending machines below, without a care in the world. But ultimately, we know very little about what goes on in nudist resorts and communities.

Masafumi Nagasaki is seventy-six years old. He lives, naked, as a hermit on a hostile Japanese island. He also sounds like he used to be a total hipster.

San Diego's San Onofre State Beach has long been a mecca for nudists looking for a genital-scorching day by the sea. But state park rangers have been cracking down on them lately, and the Camp Pendleton Marines Corps that leases the land to the state — and uses the neighboring Gold's Beach to train recruits in amphibious assault — has found itself dragged into the dispute, the LA Times reports.

Of all the issues facing the naturist community, probably one of the biggest is they're all old and wrinkly now. The WSJ reports that the "nudist resort industry" is desperately seeking younger clientele. We need young naked bodies, at once!

Supermodel Stephanie Seymour went to a nude beach on St. Barts this past weekend. [Photo via INF]

A casting call has gone out looking for seven people to go work at a Florida nudist colony and have their lives taped, to figure out what happens when people stop being polite and start being naked all the time.

[To raise money for a breast cancer charity, 102 British nudists make a bouncy attempt to break the World Record for naked rollercoaster riding at Essex's Adventure Island amusement park. Image via Splash.]

Suday's New York Times travel section has a feature on nudist getaways, which the Gray Lady is calling "Nakations." And everyone in it is old-like really old, like 74-years-old! Shall we have a look?