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Halloween 2026

Halloween

For Halloween this year we present a bunch of rather minimal Halloween costumes designed by nudist model and photographer Marco Arkoudakis.  Marco is modeling the costumes himself.  Above, Batman.

A ship's captain.

A doctor.

A king.

The god Pan.

An old-time aviator.

A pioneer.

We end with a plague doctor.  In 17th century Europe, doctors treating outbreaks of the plague really did wear beak-like masks, though they also wore long robes.

Events - Part 94

 Mr. Universe 1965

These are the winners of the 1965 Mr. Universe contest.  At left, English bodybuilder Reg Park won in the professional division, and at right, New York bodybuilder Elmo Santiago won in the amateur division.

Reg Park did not pose nude that I am aware of, but Elmo Santiago posed for photographer Lon of New York.

Another Lon of New York photo, with Santiago at left and Raul Pacheco at right.

We end with a side view of Santiago by Lon of New York.

Performers - Part 94

Naked Opera

Calixto Bieito, born in 1963, above, is a Spanish opera director known for his radical interpretation of operas, including nudity.  Here are scenes from some of the operas that he has directed at opera houses throughout Europe.

Duncan Meadows, above, played the executioner in Salome by Richard Strauss at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008.

Above, Armide by Gluck at the Komische Oper, Berlin, 2009.

Andrew Richards played Parsifal in Wagner's Parsifal, Stuttgart, 2010.

Ina Krigleborn as Agatha and Vincent Wolfsteiner as Max in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz at the Komische Oper, Berlin, 2012.

Under Bieito's direction, Vincent Wolfsteiner leaves nothing to the imagination.

The plot of Der Freischutz involves a shooting contest, but Bieito seems to have updated the weaponry.

Bieito is still doing radical opera staging.  Above, the whole chorus is naked in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Vienna State Opera, 2022.

Photographers - Part 94

Eugène Durieu

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu (1800-1874) was a very early French photographer.  He had a career as a civil servant, rising through the ranks until he was dismissed and forced into retirement in 1850 for reasons that are unclear.  

Meanwhile, he had become interested in the new technology of photography.  The daguerrotype was first publicly demonstrated in 1839.  Durieu may have been taking daguerrotypes as early as 1842.

Durieu became friends with the artist Eugène Delacroix, and together in the 1850s they experimented with Durieu taking photographs and Delacroix making art from them.  Durieu was particularly interested in nudes, both male and female, which provided Delacroix with suitably artistic subjects.  Above is an undated Durieu photo of a nude man with a pole.

Here is an undated Durieu photo of a sitting nude man.

And above we see a drawing by Delacroix where the figures at the center and right are clearly based on the previous two photos by Durieu.  The figure at left probably was, too; but I couldn't find the corresponding photo.

Here's a nude man resting on a leopard skin c. 1854.

And a side view of another man on the leopard skin, c. 1854.

A nude man that Durieu presumably photographed for Delacroix, c. 1855.

And what looks like the same man holding a different pole, c. 1855.

Durieu's photos are very old, so naturally they are not all in prime condition, but I think the photo above, labeled Male Nude Studies 1853-54, is still in remarkably good shape.

Calendars - Part 95

Naked Men of Color

Today we look at the 2021 Naked Men of Color calendar produced by Concharts.

It was printed in magazine format, with each date page facing a photo page.  This calendar had none of the prudishness about showing the penis common to many nude calendars, as you can see in January, above.  But note that the the same photo on the cover is missing the penis.  Presumably they did that so the calendar could be displayed for sale in public as a closed magazine.

But once you open the calendar, nothing is hidden.  Here's February.

There are rear views as well.  March.

April.

May.

June.

We end with July, which is as far as my source went.

Protests - Part 94

Airport Protests

Today we look at naked protests in airports.  In 2012, John Brennan stripped naked at Portland International Airport, above, in protest against what he saw as invasive measures by airport security screeners.  He was arrested and taken to court, but the judge found him not guilty, ruling that his act was one of protest, not indecent exposure as defined in Oregon law, and therefore it was protected free speech.

In 2011, three environmentalists (left to right: Liz Snook, Rosa Van Kesteren, and Paul Wilkinson) stripped at the airport in Birmingham, England, protesting the UK's first commercial flight partially fueled by recycled vegetable oil.  The three said that Thomson Airways' claim that biofuels are green was "bare faced cheek".

One of the two engines on the Thomson flight was powered with a 50/50 mix of conventional jet fuel and compounds extracted from vegetable oil that were brought from a refinery in Louisiana, 5000 miles away.  The protesters said that sending the extracted compounds 5000 miles caused far more environmental impact than just using regular jet fuel for the "green" flight would have done.

Note to protesters: if you're going to paint a slogan on your naked body, check your spelling.  The company was Thomson, not Thompson.

In 2015, Georgy Myakinkin, an airport worker at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, had left his keys at work.  When he went back to get them, he said security guards stopped him "unnecessarily" and said he had to remove his belt.  He removed his belt and everything else except his socks.

Someone took a video of him going through security naked.  It was blurred to hide his penis, but you can see it in a few frames (above).

Also in 2015, a traveler at Charlotte International Airport in North Carolina became angry when his US Airways flight to Jamaica was overbooked.  He hollered at the lady at the US Airways desk, then took off his clothes.  Police led him away, but they did not press charges.

We end with a couple of men who were naked in airports, though not to protest.  In 2016, Eric Cherry waited naked in line to buy a ticket at the Nashville airport, above.  He was arrested for indecent exposure.

And this man walked around naked at the Dallas Fort Worth airport in 2023 in the American Airlines terminal.  He was apprehended by airport security and taken for a mental health evaluation.