Nudes in the news, part deux

One venue where celebrities, celebrity hopefuls, starlets, and others in the arts and entertainment realm have chosen to reveal themselves au naturelle is Playboy (obviously). One of the most recent examples of this exposure is Eliot Spitzer's preferred prostitute (ok, call girl) Ashley Dupre. The cover shot is quite fetching:

Ashley Dupre on Playboy cover

She's an attractive woman; another obvious statement is that attractive women can be found in the ranks of call girls and strippers and other forms of sex-for-money. And I'm sure she was paid decently by Playboy for her appearance.

Just thinking back, some of the better examples of Playboy's service to the world were Elle Macpherson, Teri Polo, Kirsty Swanson, Katarina Witt, Cindy Margolis, Denise Richardson, Joanna Krupa, Brooke Burke, and Shanna Moakler; Moakler did the Full female Monty as a centerfold, and acquitted herself admirably. I don't want to think about Farrah Fawcett or the Landers sisters.


Finally, in case you hadn't heard this hand-shaking development, this month's issue of Playboy will have a 3-D centerfold. (It is not true that she will be 10 feet tall and blue, with glowing spots.) Actually, based on what I can tell from news reports, the regulation Playmate of the Month will still be, ummm, flat. The bonus 3-D feature is of the Playmate of the Year, Hope Dworacyzk (a name destined to be frequently misspelled).