Police Mishandle sexting issue in Cape Breton

Dec 14 2011

The Fereration of Canadian Naturists (FCN) objects to some recent statements from Cape Breton police about sexting amongst teens in Nova Scotia. Their claims that any image of a naked minor constitutes child pornography are completely false. Whatever the problems of sexting, nudity does not equal pornography in Canada. The Criminal Code forbids certain sexual images of minors but not all nudity in them.

Such police confusion could lead to unnecessary prosecution of naturists, as well as millions of other people with lawful nude photos.

For over a century, the pratice known as naturism has emphasized the benefits of social nudity in family settings. Naturist children tend to grow up with less body and sex obsession than others, appreciating the human body as a whole in its natural state. Books, magazines and videos about naturism proudly include images of naked people of all ages, from very young to very old>

As the mother of two young people, the FCNs President Karen Grant, adds "Saying that phhotos of naked bodies of teenagers are automatically porongraphic increases the confusuion young people already have in adolescence. That must be avoided"

It is reprehensible to sexualise all nude images of teens or others. The FCN calls on police throughout Canada to act more responibly in discussions of sexting.

http:/www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1099310--all-hot-and-bothered-about-teenage-sexting

World Naturist Day 2012

Oct 29 2011

The INF-FNI has announced that World Naturist Day, an annual event in which naturist clubs world-wide hold events and invite non-members to experience the naturist lifestyle, is to be celebrated on Sunday 17th June 2012. Anyone interested should check their local news or Federation web-site for details of events near them.

Registered Legal Seat of INF-FNI.

Apr 1 2011

Following the decision taken at Congress in Italy last year INF has been working its way through the legal process of changing the official seat of INF-FNI from Bonn registered under German law to Linz registered under Austrian law. This process has been at the normal pace of legal matters and involved numerous appearances in front of notaries and the courts. I am very pleased to say that after following the long drawn out process INF-FNI has today received the news that the courts have now formally accepted INF-FNI as having a legal seat in Austria based on the office at Linz.

INF-FNI Library

Mar 28 2011

The INF-FNI library has moved.

The history of nudism, all much appreciated nudist documents from past decades, not only of interest to us as naturists, but also for students and historians, was in the past managed and supervised by Jörg Damm in Forsthaus am Brand in Braunatal (Germany). The compete naturist archive has now been handed over to the offices of the Niedersächsischen Instituts für Sportgeschichte (NISH) and been moved to the Management of Prof. Dr. Arnd Krüger and Mr Jürgen Zander. Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe, of the Institute staff, will take care of these valuable papers, and in future assist in the library.

The contact details are:

Nds. Institut für Sportgeschichte e.V.

Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke Weg 10

30169 Hannover

Telefon: 0049 511 12 68 50 60 - Frau Martin / Mail: info@nish.de

www.nish.de

Report concerning the 39th international Swimming Gala

Dec 1 2010

Report concerning the 39th international Swimming Gala

from the 5th to the 7th of November 2010 in Zurich (Switzerland)

On Friday, the 5th of November 2010, more then 260 people met in the Youth Hostel in Zurich for this competition for which the federations are always waiting. Because there were not enough rooms available in the Hostel, a number of people had to be lodged in a nearby hotel.

In all, there were 180 swimmers and 80 accompanists present, organisers not included. It’s been a long time since we were so numerous, may be it’s due to the central location of this city within Europe?

In this group, there were about 30 Spaniards, 30 Frenchmen, 30 British, 20 Italians, 50 Germans, 20 Netherlands, 2 Belgium, 8 Swiss and 1 Swedish present. A fine selection of naturist people; they were mentioned on the front page of the Swiss newspaper “Züricher Tagesanzeiger”

As always, there were many medals issued during the whole Saturday, because this meeting has such a stressed timetable to handle hundreds of swimming contests between 10 and 17 hours.

Fortunately, the number of swimmers is self limiting; otherwise we should plan for 2 or 3 days to hold such an event. During the whole Gala evening, the organisers were thanked very much with applause and gifts from the represented federations. Tony,the duty photographer, has immortalized these unforgettable Gala evening moments on a CD and handed over one to each sports responsible for free. Many thanks also to the Swiss Federation, to Edith as president and Bernadette as secretary, who almost cut themselves into quarters to insure that everything could go well.

Thanks are also entitled to those who prepared the meals as well as those who embellished and shielded the swimming pool, those who waited for us at the railway station, the timekeepers, the pool attendants, the whole Swiss crew and all the participants, accompanists or swimmers.

For 2011, we are expecting several candidatures, the selection will be difficult and you will see the name of the selected candidate on the homepage: www.inf-fni.org and you will also be informed by EuNatCom.

Roger VIOLA,

Responsible for sport and leisure events of Eunat.

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