Nude calendar

Nude calendars are a special type of wall calendars or table calendars. Nude calendars have proliferated in recent decades and some have become greatly anticipated annual traditions. A more recent development has been nude calendars by celebrities for charity.

Types

Nude calendar types include:

• female nude calendars (mostly targeting straight males)
• male nude calendars (mostly targeting females and gays)
• charity nude (and semi-nude) calendars targeting males and females for purpose of donating proceeds to charity

Female nude calendars

Mostly targeted at straight men, they follow in the tradition of men's magazines featuring centerspreads, monthly nude features and swimsuit issues like Playboy and Penthouse and later offshoots. The Pirelli Calendar is famous. See also Calendar Girls and The Darker Image.

Male nude calendars

Mostly targeted at women, they follow in the tradition of women magazines like Playgirl that publishes centerspreads and monthly nude features of men. The men featured are at many times erotic and sometimes homoerotic.

Also a primary target are gay males who purchase the calendars. These may be general male nude calendars or more explicit exclusively gay-oriented male nude calendars.

Charity nude calendars

Charity nude calendars have also proliferated in in the 1990s and the 2000s. Proceeds usually go to various health or social causes. Participants may include artists, celebrities, sportsmen and sportswomen, firefighters, military forces, the police etc.

Successful charity nude calendars include:

• Dieux du Stade (France)
• League of Their Own (Australia) (2006)
• Naked Rugby League (Australia) (Jry 2007 to February 2008)
• Naked For A Cause (Australia) (October 2007 to April 2009)
• Gods of Football (Australia) featuring Australian Football League players and Australian Rugby League players (2009)

See also

• Depictions of nudity
• Nude photography
• Nudity
• Photography

References

• Springtime-the first vietnamese nude calendar by Thai Phien