The nude charity calendar bubble bursts? (UPDATED with an immodest proposal)

BALLOON DANCE at Hoochie Coochie, Bristol, originally uploaded by Mark Berry - Photographer & Graphic Designer.

UPDATE: The calendar story has been drawing a lot of attention in news stories around the globe, so I decided to do a little digging for some more info.  The website for the calendar is here, but it's out for the moment.  Before the story went viral the town had been having a bit of a debate over its propriety (think about the children, etc.), of which you can get a flavor in the forum on the village website.  This story has a photo of all seven women involved.

One thing that's interesting about the forum is that several people have now left their emails to get copies of the calendar.  Part of this may be out of interest in the calendar itself, but my bet is the prime mover is the news of their plight.  It's like buying cookies from Girl Scouts or candy from kids: the caring instinct kicks in. 

Still, if there really is a vibrant market in selling semi-nude pictures of charitable women to horny guys (and women--hey, we don't discriminate!), then maybe the socially entrepreneurial thing to do is set up a website for charity erotica.  Judging from the success of teen sites, "Girls Gone Wild" and Playboy's "Girls of" issues, I bet universities could get rid of those pesky alumni fundraising campaigns by selling their own branded porn.

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The first time it's clever; repeated, cliche. The story blames a distribution problem, but I wonder if there isn't a more systemic trend:

Seven middle-aged Spanish mothers who posed for a tongue-in-cheek nude calendar - a fundraiser for their children's tiny, rural school - are now saddled with debt and 5,000 unwanted copies.

"The sad part for us is figuring out what to do with them because it is not something you can recycle," said Rosa Garin, 36, one of the models in Serradilla del Arroyo, a village of 400 people in northern Salamanca province.