We will all remember 2006 for the hot and unstable weather, war in Iraq, web 2.0 sites, Italy's controversial win in the world cup... But what will stick to mind when we think of 2006 nudity?
Let's start with the movies. Although pretty unknown I will start with Diora Baird in a movie Hot Tamale. After showing her boobs in Wedding Crasher and Playboy magazine last year, we were once more able to admire her big boobs. Young, pretty and talented, actually she has two very big talents, I think she deserves the best nude scene of the year award.
Second place goes to Jackie Quinones and her amazing booty in movie Hard Luck. Although I never heard of her before seeing this movie, she will be on my watch list in the future.
As for the third place I went with Salma Hayek in Ask the Dust. If the nude skinny dipping scene would be shot during the day, she would easily top the best nude scene of the year.
I would also like to mention Gretchen Mol in movie The Notorious Bettie Page, Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi in Babel and last but not least Jennifer Aniston in The break up. Had she shown us a little more than just her glorious back, she would definitely top this chart.
Magazines
As usual we have to start with Playboy. Sometimes it looks like they are the only ones who care about exposing big celebrities. It's been a great year for them.
In April they launched Indonesian edition of the magazine. Although all models featured in the Indonesian version of the magazine are fully clothed, authorities in Indonesia still managed to put the chief editor of the magazine on trial for distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them.
Celebs who posed for Playboy this year are Lisa Guerrero (January), Willa Ford (March), Pamela David (March – Argentinean issue), Rachel Sterling (May), Vida Guerra (July), Stacey Dash (August) and once most downloaded Internet model, Cindy Margolis (December).
There is also one more story involving Playboy we just have to mention. Willa Ford's comeback with nude pictorial in Playboy magazine was overshadowed with Jessica Alba's Playboy cover photo. Alba claimed that the cover photo was suggesting she's posing nude inside the magazine and demanded that Playboy pulls the March issue of the magazine from the newsstands. After Hugh Hefner sent her an apology letter she quickly dropped the case.
Before we move on to other magazines we can also mention Miss UK Danielle Lloyd, who was stripped of her Miss UK 2006 title for posing nude in Playboy magazine.
If we move on to other magazines we can't go past Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley who posed nude for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine's yearly Hollywood issue. Sadly Fashion superstar Tom Ford also appeared on the cover photo. Sadly because he was filling in for Rachel McAdams who backed out at the last second when she found out it is supposed to be a nude photo shoot.
In August all eyes were focused on the cover of the Harper's Bazaar with Britney Spears nude, pregnant and heavily retouched.
Also worth mentioning are a couple of nude photos of actresses Sienna Miller and Joy Bryant in March issue of Vanity Fair magazine, while Rebecca Loos took off her clothes for Spanish magazine Interviu November issue.
Paparazzi
2006 was definitely a big year for paparazzi who were following Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. They were all caught pantyless at one time or another. The whole year seemed like a competition between the three on which one would have the most wardrobe malfunctions. I guess the reward is news coverage. It just seems strange that they have to do that to stay on top of the news. Anyway, they won't get any objection from me, let the pussy flashing continue.
Since we are talking about going commando we must also mention actress Kelly Brook who was also caught by paparazzi in March.
Other than that we were treated to Jordan aka Katie Price big boobs, model Elle Macpherson topless on a yacht near St. Tropez, Helena Christensen topless at the beach, Sienna Miller topless sunbathing and more.
I'd also like to mention an embarrassing moment for Scarlett Johansson, just because it's funny. She was left red faced at the Golden Globe Awards where TV reporter Isaac Mizrahi fondled her left boob while he was interviewing her. The funny thing is she didn't slap the man, which makes me wanna interview her all the time...
Sex tapes
As I listed trough the news published on Nudography in 2006 I quickly realized that this was a year for sex tapes.
It started with Colin Farrell and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Narain sex tape. This story has been cooking for quite a while. Apparently Nicole Narain was a little short on cash and she decided to sell the tape and make some money. The tape, which was made about two years ago, was set for a release in July 2005. But as soon as Colin Farrell found out about it, he managed to score a temporary injunction against Nicole Narain to prevent her, along with her business partners, from selling their 15-minute sex tape.
I don't know if Nicole eventually made any money, but the tape was available for download on all file sharing networks in the middle of January and I must say it wasn't worth the wait. The tape is rather low quality and there is not much to see.
February brought us another sex tape scandal. Kid Rock and Scott Stapp were caught on tape with several strippers. Sex tape shows Kid Rock and Stapp partying and receiving blow jobs from several of their groupies while touring nearly six years ago. Unfortunately for us, a federal judge later signed an order preventing the sex tape to be distributed.
November was marked with another sex tape scandal. Iranian soap actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi found herself in a centre of a sex tape scandal when a videotape of a woman having sex with another man was leaked to the Internet. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi denied being the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake made by a vengeful former fiance who used studio techniques to form a montage of incriminating images designed to destroy her career.
As for the other sex tapes, there is one with model Carolyn Murphy who couldn't resist spicing up her honeymoon by taping her sex acts, Imogen Thomas (Miss Wales 2003 and UK's Big Brother 7 contestant) was a victim of jealous ex-boyfriend who decided to publish their sex tape and make some quick bucks and Internet model Jordan Capri and her husband made a honeymoon sex video.
There were also a few sex tape rumors. Supposedly Britney Spears and Kevin Federline made a sex tape as did Jane Fonda and media mogul Ted Turner, who reportedly had a threesome with a brunette.
In conclusion it was another great year for nudity. The biggest surprise for me is the number of sex tapes, that came out this year. Even though it may have been a taboo 15 years ago, today everybody are filming them. And that is something we can be grateful for...