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This week's EW cover " features a smiling young women being spanked — we got some requests for having the woman spank the man, and we were down with that, but we let our models choose their poses.

We wondered what Eugeneans would think of "Fetish Fun," given the outcry we experienced when we put naked Barbie on the cover of our Get Nekkid issue, but so far things are pretty quiet around the office. "

We're getting reports of some restaurants covering the Weekly up with previous issues, turning it over to hide the cover, but things are pretty quiet here. Have Eugeneans opened their mind to alternative lifestyles? Are Weeklies getting hidden all over town? And what in the world was so offensive about naked Barbie and her boyfriend anyway?

The UO just cancelled the championship hopes of its ultimate frisbee team over nudity at an OSU match.

But the UO hasn't taken any action to cancel Nike's huge presence on campus due to this act of naked corporate commercialism:

Maybe if frisbee boosters could donate a few hundred million dollars, the UO wouldn't be so prudish.

Or maybe the frisbee solution is official uniforms with swoosh-shaped gourds:

Clever Nike designers could probably come up with something less scratchy and more swooshy, call it the Schwing 6.0.

We're all naked underneath our clothes, or so the saying goes, but this week it's Barbie and Ken without their clothes on the cover of the EW. If the naked doll bottoms are banned from your neighborhood newsstands, be sure to let us know. Mainly because I'm curious. I mean, it's Barbie. You HAVE to take her clothes off in order to get her out of her "Nurse Barbie" outfit and into her "Cheerleader Barbie" outfit.

I came across, in the course of my research on nudity, one interesting fact that didn't make it into the article — it appears that June 21 is naked hiking day. You honor the solstice "skyclad" or something like that. I also found at least one nude hiker blogger, who also happens to be from the Northwest. Warning: If you didn't like naked Barbie, you really won't like this. He doesn't just hike in the nude, he takes pictures of himself.

If you plan to naked hike, you can go here for some top 10 tips on how to romp through the woods in your alltogether. The advice to put vaseline between your thighs was interesting, but I was perplexed by this advice: "... since clearcuts afford less than ideal scenery, you are not likely to meet any other hikers. I have many times been able to hike and ride my mountain bike nude all day long in clearcuts and only rarely have met anyone out there."

Ok, but who wants to hike a clearcut? Clearcuts are UGLY. But now I am wondering how often Eugene's tree-huggers are running into nude hikers and bikers when they go out to document a clearcut?

But the question is: Where do the denizens of Lane County like to go when they get naked? We hear tell there is a good naked swimming hole out Fall Creek, but never got directions (also it's been kind of overcast, and not prime naked-person weather). So please do tell all.