Colorado Firefighters

Patrick Kramer knows he is going to take a lot of razzing from fellow firefighters when the 2010 Colorado Firefighter Calendar is debuted today.

Kramer, a firefighter engineer who appears in the calendar shirtless and hanging off the side of a train, said he’ll put up with the teasing in exchange for helping a charity.

The calendar is produced by Fired Up for Kids, a nonprofit that donates proceeds from calendar sales to The Children’s Hospital Burn Center.

Buy it from Fired Up For Kids: read more about it at the Longmont Times-Call.

CF Mums

The calendar benefits the CF Trust: Buy it here, read more about it in This Is Bristol.

Asian Pacific Male

On Tuesday, September 1, APHCV [Asian Pacific Health Care Venture] unveiled the APM (Asian Pacific Male) 2010 calendar, which features 12 Asian American men in various degrees of semi-undress with each model representing a month of the year. Profits from the sale of the calendars will go to APHCV.

The APM 2010 calendars are $15 each and are available at the APHCV clinic in East Hollywood, Amazon.com and other outlets.

For more details see the Asian Journal.

Jo's Trust

A group of Jo’s Trust supporters have stripped off on bales of hay at a farm in Ilkeston, wore nothing more than football scarves at the Nottingham Forest ground and posed like hippies in a daisy field in Melton Mowbray – all to raise money for Jo's Trust by producing a calendar.

The 2010 calendar costs £6 (all proceeds go to Jo's Trust) and can be ordered by emailing: klmarshall@btinternet.com or starflowerlips@yahoo.co.uk.

Alternatively, you can order online by clicking here. In order to receive your calendar you MUST type the following in the event box: JT Calendar 2010.

Read more at This Is Nottingham. See also the Facebook Group.

Tantalising take-offs 2010

Norfolk Gliding Club 2010 Calendar - 12 months of 'Tantalising take-offs!

A fantastic, glossy, A3 landscape calendar by the Norfolk Gliding Club, depicting stunning aircraft with smoldering curves - Next years must-have!

I can't find any charity listed, but I'm going to assume it benefits the gliding club itself. It's just so gosh-darned cute that I can't resist it.

Buy it here. The site even does conversions between pounds, euros and dollars.

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.

Oxford Undressed

A group of daredevil scholars agreed to pose for a saucy naked calendar to raise money for poverty-stricken third world countries.

These brainy undergraduates at Oxford University seem have to mislaid their gowns…and all the rest of their clothing.

Around 60 students took part in the calendar in aid of Oxford-based charity TravelAid.

Comes in academic year 2009-2010 or calendar year 2010, £10.00 each. Buy it here. More information and photos from the Sun, the Daily Mail, Momento24, ABC News, SmasHits... Well, all over, actually. I mean, this is Oxford.