March 5 2017

At last count, it was nearing on 700 posts and 100 000 followers.

Lonely Planet reports that the account is run by one Brendan Jones from Sydney, who started the page as a bit of fun.

“On my hikes, I was always stripping off to feel the sun on my skin whenever I got to a secluded spot in the outdoors,” he explains.

“I don’t know why, it just felt natural. My friends and I started to take some photos with great scenic backgrounds and our bare bums, and I thought I should start a page for all these photos of our travels.”

“It just snowballed from there and has now become a huge craze.”

The account is now about body positivity and invites e-mail submissions from men and women who wish to be featured, with a note adding, “We have 50:50 male to female ratio and feature bodies of all shapes and sizes”.

Finally, the managers of a nightclub in Barcelona have infuriated women’s rights groups — by promising a free drink and à100 in cash to any woman willing to prove she wasn’t wearing underwear.

The Bailódromo Caña Dulce has been using a poster to invite “unmarried women” to a male-stripper event on Saturdays — with the promise of cocktails and cash for those who go commando — and prove it.

A women’s legal group called Dones Juristes, set up in December to battle sexist advertising, has called for the ad to be banned on the basis that it “insults and humiliates women”.

The Spanish daily newspaper El Pais quoted the club manager as saying: “If people don’t talk about you, you don’t exist. This is just a bit of fun in a very familyoriented place.”

He added that last month only two women had taken up the offer — and one of them had “asked her husband’s permission” to do so.

Allegedly, since the story has been gaining traction on social media, the manager also said they’d received about 20 phone calls from people wanting to confirm that the offer was still running.

“Nudity is normal,” he said. “We see it on the television all the time.”