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Goya and images of women? We may suppose we know something about that, having seen The Naked Maja, 1797-1800, one of the most famous woman images in art next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy...
Before a packed theater in Hollywood, a nude blond totters onto the stage tied up and blindfolded. A hush falls over the audience of several hundred as she begins to flex her arms and whip her torso around like a bronco, until eventually the rope loosens and her hands break free. She sheds the blindfold and slips out of her bonds to reveal a black thong. She glares icily, turns around and slaps her butt. The crowd--especially the half of it that's female--gives...
...Square adult entertainment palace, to devote at least 60% of its space to nonlewd entertainment, and the venue posted a NO LIVE GIRLS sign outside the building. But the Va Va Voom Room held court on one of its floors for six months in 2000. "We were probably more nude than the nude shows they had there," says Valentine. "There were live girls...
Hanssen's story is irresistible. The archconservative son of a Chicago cop, he worked diligently for the Russians. An ultra-orthodox Catholic, he sent nude pictures of his wife to his best friend and, in one of the weirdest discoveries of the Mailer/Schiller research, proposed that his friend use the date-rape drug Rohypnol to seduce her. No mere diagnosis of "mental disorder," says Mailer, could begin to grasp the man's complexities: "There are great holes in formal psychology. Hanssen just blazes through them...
...Museum director Khun Samen resents the attention the bats receive?he would rather have the public focus on his collections, a centerpiece of which is the original Leper King statue from the Angkor Thom region, rare partly because the ancient sculpture is nude. Still, when travelers trade tips about the National Museum on the Internet, they usually describe how best to view the dusk drama. Which, of course, drives the administration batty...