When we first discovered Diamond's website, we fell in love with the upbeat attitude the founder/editor-in-chief, Matt Di Pasquale, takes towards sex and sexual expression. He writes, "To repress or limit your sexual desires, keeping them to yourself, is to hold back a natural part of your being... So, by restricting the flow of one type of emotion, you naturally condition yourself to prevent the flow of other kinds of emotions like happiness, love, sadness, and joy."

But when Diamond's pilot issue came out, it was less about sex than it was about sneakers. The only skin to be seen belonged to the founder, and he wasn't exactly working it. In his ten-page spread, he flaunted both his penis and his high school AP scores (guess which impressed us most).

But with their first official issue, Diamond's managed to release official naked pictures of students from around the country. The articles—penned by students at Harvard, Barnard, Princeton, Yale, and other prestigious locations—are more sex-centric than before, and feel earnest and straightforward. So is it better? No.

Boston University, Cambridge, Columbia, and even Harvard have already jumped on this bandwagon, sometimes even giving the goods up for free. Now, we're not saying we're tired of college sex magazines (it's real, legal nudity and naughty talk), and we are happy to the models get paid a decent amount for their time, and we do respect Diamond's to branch out to other universities. But asking us to pay $9.99 for a digital issue (or $29.99 for a print copy) is just silly. Trust us: we downloaded the free sample version. The sample should be enticing, and it wasn't.

At the end of the day, Diamond's just another college sex magazine in a sea of college sex magazines—more a piece of a hay in a haystack than a, ahem, diamond in the rough. Publications like Boink and H-Bomb understand that when readers approach an Ivy League-generated nudie mag, they expect a certain bit of self-conscious tomfoolery. Dormitory antics, suggestive sororities, TAs with T&A, and nerdy babes wearing nothing but mortarboard caps are all things we hoped to find in Diamond, and we were disappointed by their absence. We genuinely like the kids and what they're trying to do. Here's hoping the next issue has a little more sparkle.

· Grab the free sample issue at Diamond Magazine (diamond-mag.com)
· Harvard Alum Launches Ivy League Porn Mag (business.avn.com)

True, the side by side clothed/naked portrait device is one we've seen before. But what, you think we're going to turn down Richard Kern's photos of cute girls? Um, think again, folks. Think again.

· Class Portraits (viceland.com)

In addition to those photoerotic luminaries, FLNGS also includes contributions from guest bloggers. Currently holding the guest slot? Photographer/model/self portraitist Katie West. Not yet familiar with Katie's work? Get thee over to FLNGS blog pronto, before we disown you.

· FLNGS (latenightfeelings.com, via Violet Blue)
· Photo by Chase Lisbon (latenightfeelings.com)

· Shot By Kern: Amelia (vbs.tv)

Really, V Magazine has been so good to us, we'd really love to thank them properly. How will we do that? We're gonna ogle Natalia Vodianova. Please, feel free to help us!

· Natalia Vodianova shows some nip in a magazine about V's. Why not? (thesuperficial.com)

Now available on iTunes, "Naked States" is a road movie with several hearts.

For five months in 1997, Tunick crossed America with the goal of photographing nudes in each of the contiguous 48 states. From Presque Isle, Maine to Los Angeles, Tunick was able to either cajole (Fargo) or corral (an unruly nudist colony) his models, each of whom seemed to have a different idea of what the point was.

Tunick himself comes across as less interested in the humanity than in the art, and less interested in the art than in the art magazines which had at the time shown little interest. But his models, like the woman in Boston who thought of her public nudity (recovering from a mugging and rape) as therapy or the Phish fan who joined hundreds of like-minded subjects supine on the tarmac of a former Air Force base as a war protest, are what makes this documentary like a very fleshy "Travels with Charley."

Maybe Tunick is a publicity seeker (he recently broke a record in Mexico City's Zocalo by getting 18,000 people to disrobe), but the reasons his subjects cite for taking their kits off are deeply personal, from the 65-year-old man who knows how he will look exiting the world to the woman posing on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor, pre- the towers falling, talking about the power of public solitude.

So, since neither Tunick nor his strangely killjoy girlfriend, nor his producer nor his attorney (the great Ronald Kuby, who can still spit the word "cops") ever refer to any of the models as "hot," I felt bad thinking that the woman from Madison or that vintage clothing store employee looked pretty tasty. But the way Tunick arranged them said "naked" more than "nude," so he achieved his goal.

The documentary follows a pattern of Tunick's surprises, both pleasant and not. He feels personally endangered at the Sturgis bike rally (the owner of a Klanware t-shirt concession is incensed at Tunick's proposition to his daughter), has a difficult time with crowd control at a nudist colony and Phish concert, and ends the movie with his coveted gallery showing and wide exposure in the art world. We are surprised that he has only been arrested five times.

Ultimately what makes this documentary compelling is how much of America we see, and how there seems to be a fortuitous disconnect between photographer and subject, in which each walks away from the shoot with something different.

Because I am base-minded and low, I was not able to walk away, for I had an erection.

Spencer Tunick (spencertunick.com)
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Swift's photo series offers up a peek beneath the clothes of the average woman: each model is photographed fully clothed and fully nude, with the resulting photos displayed side-by-side. It's fascinating look at what's hidden away from daily view—and the differences (and similarities) that come to light when we're all laid bare.

· What Lies Beneath (swiftimages.net)

Thanks to a partnership between scotchmaker Macallan and British photographer Rankin, that exquisite pleasure is now available to anyone with a fireplace (and a few grand to drop on whiskey). The Masters of Photography collection pairs a rare bottle of whiskey with a limited edition collection of Rankin's photos—many of which feature his wife, Tuuli Shipster in various states of undress. Now that's what we call a pinnacle of achievement.

· The Masters of Photography (en-gb.themastersofphotography.com, via nudography.com)

We'd tell you more, but it just sounds so much better coming from Zaida herself. Take a look at her video below.

· Shot By Kern: Zaida (vbs.tv)

Anyone else feeling inspired to petition for a "Not Ghost XXX"? We can think of many a lady who'd make an excellent Demi Moore. (Evan Stone is the obvious choice for Patrick Swayze.)

· Cros Karma | B & M (marksacro.blogspot.com, via indienudes.com)

Though her engagement with Mr. Hyman became a, ahem, shootus interruptus, young Kathleen has posed naked before, for other photographers. Animal New York has a set of the naked activist shot by Ned Rosen—and though it's not as naked as the full frontal fashions of Zach Hyman, and it isn't in the Met, well...at least we get to see some of Kathleen Neill's bits. And that's worth something, right?

· Kathleen Neill's Other Nude Photo Shoot (animalnewyork.com)
· Pigs Can't Handle Nudie Photog Taking Nudie Pics of Nudie Model (gawker.com)

Photographer Uwe Ommer (who you may remember from his "Do It Yourself" project) falls into the latter category, as evidenced by his "Obamania" photo series. Though we're not completely sure what his message is (perhaps a statement on Obama's sexualization by the mass media?), we're oddly compelled by the photos. Maybe we just have a thing for naked girls in masks.

· Obamania (uweommer.eu, via yuhmm.com)

But wait, there's more! Exey Panteleev's patented learning system isn't limited to lessons about HTML: he's also got tips about CSS, photography, and all other sorts of nerd things. With just three easy payments of $29.95, his knowledge can be yours. (Offer not available outside the US. Make payments to Fleshbot.com.)

· Exey Panteleev (flickr.com)
· Sexy HTML Tips (flickr.com)

· Richard Kern: Archival Girls (viceland.com)

Lucky for us, their taste in clothes seems to run towards belts, shoes, and nothing else. (Think we could get away with copying their look?)

· Nudes, Sans Tattoos (viceland.com)

The photos—which feature couples of varying ethnicities and sexual orientations—offer a sweet, intimate look into the lives (and bedrooms) of New York City couples; along with an alluring sensuality that's almost enough to make us forget that everyone's fully clothed. (Almost.)

· In The Bedrooms (nytimes.com, via nerve.com)
· TribbleMancenido (tribblemancenido.com)

The first time SuicideGirls put out a book, they made one fatal mistake: instead of just focusing on the stuff that makes SuicideGirls great (i.e. photos of hot naked girls), they cluttered the whole thing up with a bunch of words. Thankfully, they've learned from their mistakes. In their follow up tome, SuicideGirls: Beauty Redefined, they've chosen to focus exclusively on the pretty pictures, celebrating the "redefined beauty" that made SuicideGirls stand out from the crowd.

It may be a little late to be thinking about holiday gifts, but we think that SuicideGirls: Beauty Redefined would make an excellent present for any discerning pervert. But don't take our word for it: take a peek inside with our sample gallery below.

· Buy SuicideGirls: Beauty Redefined (suicidegirls.com)

· Lame At Names (lameatnames.com, via Indie Nudes)