Iowa awaits Miss Nude World pageant

News Interactive ^ | April 17, 2003 | The Associated Press

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DESPITE the protests of some of its citizens, the US town of Des Moines in Iowa has won hosting rights for this year's Miss Nude World pageant.

"I guess anything that has a potential to bring outside visitors to town is somewhat positive," said Greg Edwards, president of the Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The event will be held in October at a strip club by the name of the Lumber Yard and is expected to draw up to 75 professional exotic dancers from around the United States and several foreign countries.

"In our industry, this is the biggest event in the world," said Mike Kent, the Lumber Yard's manager.

Most of the estimated 10,000 customers who are expected for the pageant will come from Iowa, Kent said. But he said many will travel from other states, which will provide an economic shot in the arm for Des Moines hotels and restaurants.

Chuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Centre, based in Des Moines, said nude entertainment was bad for the area.

"The fundamental issue is: It degrades women; it treats them like things rather than people," he said.

But Rio Rivers, the man who owns the pageant, and Lumber Yard manager Kent, disagreed. The dancers are businesswomen, said Rivers.

"They're beautiful, intelligent, hardworking women supporting themselves and their families," she said.

Rivers said Des Moines was chosen for the contest because the Lumber Yard is a topflight club and because the city's location in Middle America should help attract contestants and spectators.

The winner of the pageant will receive $US10,000. Contestants who win preliminary events will get $US5,000.

The Associated Press

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"They're beautiful, intelligent, hardworking women supporting themselves and their families," she said.

OK FReepers, yesterday some of us exposed ourselves as adolescents with nrude replies to the original post of this story, causing the Admin Moderator to pull the thread.

Today, let's view the subject with some thought, giving these beautiful, intelligent, hardworking women the series contemplation and respect we would give businesswomen engaged in other professions.

Unabashedly naked attempts at weak puns, locker room humor, etc. will only expose those FReepers who lack the maturity to unaddress a subject revealing the developement of today's social fabric, or lack thereof, and therefore cause the Moderator to pull the thread again.

[anniegetyourgun]

"The event will be held in October at a strip club by the name of the Lumber Yard and is expected to draw up to 75 professional exotic dancers from around the United States and several foreign countries."

Quite telling - where they have to go to get such "hardworking" women.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I hear it is a little nippy in Iowa this time of year.

[The Other Harry]

I'd like to be kept abreast of any new developments.

[capt. norm]

Iowa just doesn't seem like the place where they'd allow a person to 'let it all hang out'.

[freedumb2003]

"The fundamental issue is: It degrades women; it treats them like things rather than people," he said.

The fundamental issue is: who says what a woman (or a man) can do or not do with themselves (so long as it is legal)? This is a standard leftist argument: You must do what WE say. If WE do it/want it, it is freedom. If YOU ant it/do it and we don't agree with it, it MUST BE STOPPED!

[mylife]

Do they Need any judges for this contest?

[SSN558]

"The fundamental issue is: It degrades women; it treats them like things rather than people," he said."

I'll judge that for myself. Pictures..we must see the pictures.

[Walkingfeather]

Okay I will say it....

Is this heaven????

No it's Iowa.

[Quick Shot]

Yea, bring ones (paper not coins)

[Pappy Smear]

My office is just a couple blocks down from the strip club-The Lumber Yard. Their tag line for their advertising is:

The Lumber Yard, where men go to get wood.

And their mascot is a beaver. I'll let you draw your own conclusions with that one.

[LibertarianInExile]

I've drawn a conclusion.

[turbojugend]

I hear that there will be some stiff competition this year.

[JusPasenThru]

We need data to process this story properly. DATA! Lots of data.
There, is that mature enough? Love your nails.

[GregoryFul]

I love that name "Lumber Yard". LOL

Some pictures please!

[WOSG]

The admin pulled this thread? that's an unadulatered exercise of naked power. What a cover up! I'd give him a dressing down for sure.

[putupon]

The admin pulled this thread?

Yes, even before many of the Lurker's finished pulling theirs.

[sit-rep]

Pics??????

[phil1750]

I always recall the old line,"Des Moines ain't the end of the world, but from Des Moines you can see the end......................."

[Mike-o-Matic]

   Their tag line for their advertising is: The Lumber Yard, where men go to get wood.

Next time they feel like a slogan change, maybe they could mimic the Dairy Council and ask the rhetorical question, "Got Wood?"

[Colorado Doug]

Okay, I don't see what the big deal is but here's a picture.

[Mister Baredog]

Thanks for the laughs, do they have a web sight?

[CMOTB]

Thanks for the laughs, do they have a web sight?

http://www.iwantwood.com/

[Tunehead54]

That's not a picture! This is a picture - a patriotic one at that - for our guys "over there"!

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[freedumb2003]

Of course, Chuck Hurley of the 'Iowa Family Policy Centre' is a well known Republican conservative, so your statement must apply to both the left and the right?

It darn well better. That's one of the problems with being a conservative -- the far right starts merging with the far left. It is the soft underbelly of conservatism.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Iowa bump!

[wolf24]

Iowa 'bumps'?

[johniegrad]

Iowa GRIND.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Thank goodness I didn't ping.

[OperationFreedom]

btt

[cyborg]

You have self control, having not prematurely pinged someone.

[wolf24]

We're a classy bunch aren't we?

[johniegrad]

Classy Bunch

[BenLurkin]

And the winnder is:

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[Darksheare]

AUGH!
Why'd you have to show Shake N' Flake here!!
I'm blind!
Help! Help!

On a side note: If I set up my art eisle and art pad there, and started sketching the contestants, how long do you think it'd take before I got tossed out the door?
(Moral dilemma for them, Art is a 'high class' and 'cultured' activity as well..)

[Mr. K]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[putupon]

JimRob needs to figure out a way to include an automatic Barf Warning with a dangerous ping. Now I need to get my Prozac refilled or I will have nightmares of that creature without any clothes on for a week.

[Darksheare]

Good thing I have a built in defense.
I'm near-sighted and can drop my glasses form my face quickly!
(However, the shock of seeing shake-n-flake truly frightened me..)

[putupon]

truly frightened

I was deeply frightned. That's worse.

[Darksheare]

The "Frozen like a deer in the headlights and waiting for the semi to hit" kind of frightened?
*Shudders*
Guess I'm lucky to be near-sighted then..

[Solson]

For a porn...I'm sure here shaking comes in handy...