Calendar Girls Get Dressed

Naked librarians. Naked folk singers. Middle-aged village women posing nude. As for the anything goes as long as it's going to charity, thirteen of Britain's top topless models have said enough is enough.

With tongue in cheek humor, the models hold that modeling nude should be left to the professionals. So, in a classic tipping of a sacred cow, the models have decided to put out a calendar of their own, only no one will be taking off their clothes. Instead, the models, who will be bucking the current calendar charity trend of scantily-clad amateurs, strike a professional pose fully-clothed in Calendar Girls Get Dressed For Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

...According to photographer Stuart White, "I wanted to let the glamour girls make fun of themselves. Their normal image is all to do with partying and the high life, which is why all the portraits show them finding their housework difficult."

It doesn't quite fit the stated purpose of my list, but really, how can you resist? From The Cancer Blog. Buy the calendar at Lulu.

Aktkalender 2008 Berlin

A tough Berlin suburb hopes to improve its image with a nude calendar... "Everyone is different — all are the same" is the slogan behind the campaign for a calendar that includes 28 pages of photos of the district's young people posing "totally nude and unstrained, while conscious of their natural environment and their social sphere".

Story from The Age. Buy the calendar from Aktkalender 2008 Berlin.

Men of Auction

Do you ever find yourself basking in the soft TV glow of New Hampshire Public Television's annual auction, ogling the volunteers and struggling to put out of your mind the illicit question: Just what do they look like naked? Well you, whoever you are, are in luck.

From the Concord Monitor. Buy the calendar from NHPTV. (Calendar runs May 2007-May 2008.)

A Chance for Rosie

Two reporters and a photographer from the Stroud News & Journal have dared to bare all, posing naked for a calendar to help raise funds for a six-year-old autistic girl.

From Hold The Front Page and This is Gloucester. See a television reporter cover the shoot, and almost become, er, involved, from 5 News. Buy the calendar at A Chance for Rosie.

Beverley Rugby Club

"The players of Beverley Rugby Club are baring all for the club's 2008 nude fundraising calendar.

"The men of Beverley Rugby Club exposed their talents both on and off the pitch for the club's first nude calendar. The lads from the East Yorkshire club braved this summer's terrible weather to pose for the calendar which will be released in November and it is hoped that the calendar will raise much needed funds for the club."

..."The Beverley Rugby Club Nude Calendar and DVD 2008 will be available from early November and can be ordered through the website at: www.freewebs.com/beverleyrugbycalendar2008 or by emailing Paul Manning at p.manning@shu.ac.uk"

Nude Geezers of Madrid, New Mexico

From the Santa Fe New Mexican:

When Peter Bassin, 68, showed waitresses at The Mine Shaft Tavern a picture of himself astride a white horse — wearing nothing but his guns, boots and cowboy hat — they didn’t throw him out. “One of the waitresses looked at it and said, ‘You are hot, hot, hot,’ ” Bassin said.

See also Geezers Illustrated (the official site) and PR-GB.com.

Austrian Ski Instructors

From WayOdd:

Austrian ski instructors in Arlberg region have agreed to bare it all after students ask them to release a naked calendar. A company spokesman said, "We often get men staring at the female instructors and many women seem to sign up just to flirt with their teachers, so we thought, why not give them what they want?"

Apparently this has been a phenomenally successful item for them. I'm not seeing any mention of a charity, though, so this may be a tad outside my target area.

See also Ananova, Kink (1, 2), Natives.co.uk, and the official site at Skilehrerinnen.at (or here). And I believe this page from the Burg Hotel refers to the same calendar. Fair warning: They don't hide behind things.