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Humid summers have encouraged a nudity trend that is stretching to restaurants, yoga classes and even a stand-up comedy club.
They are served by regular restaurant staff who, under city regulations, must be wearing clothes.
"We're just more comfortable nude," said John Ordover, a keen urban nudist and founder of Clothing Optional Dinners.
He told the New York Post: "We're not out to shock or put on a public spectacle. We want only to do things that other people do in the way that we are most comfortable doing them. That, for us, is without clothes."
The Phoenix Temple, a yoga centre in midtown Manhattan, has naked classes twice a week for about 10 practitioners.
"I had such a transformative experience on my own when I did yoga naked rather than clothed, I wanted to share that" said Isis Phoenix, the yoga teacher.
Each class starts with a disrobing ceremony. "The first 10 minutes of class - for anyone who is new, there's always a sense of trepidation," said Miss Phoenix. "It dissolves very quickly."
At the People's Improv Theatre in Chelsea, men and women comics perform each week at the Naked Comedy Showcase.
"Each time I tried comedy naked, it was the best thing ever," Andy Ofiesh, the event's founder, told the Post.
"It gives you a kind of vulnerability that puts the audience on your side straight away."
Half the auditorium is reserved for people who enjoy laughing in the nude.
"We fill the space. Finding comedians is more difficult," said Mr Ofiesh.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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