'We saw the Web site and said, 'Whoa!' ' Peterson said. After inquiries from the Times, the nudist group asked Zadanoff Thursday to remove a link from his Web site to its site.Īmerican nudist resorts don't hold beauty pageants for nude children, association marketing official Debra Peterson said. The American Association for Nude Recreation disavows the video sales. It was sponsored by the nudist organization Zadanoff led from 1990-92. Last month, Foley criticized a camp for naked children aged 11 to 17 held at Pasco's Lake Como nudist resort. 'They serve young children on a platter for America's most depraved.'įoley said a local nudist faxed him information about Zadanoff's Web site. 'These videos are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles,' Foley said in a written statement e-mailed to the St. Senate seat held by Bob Graham and has specialized in child protection issues in the U.S. The West Palm Beach Republican is running for the U.S. Mark Foley, who campaigned last month against a nude summer camp in Pasco County, considers the videos fodder for a less savory element. Last month, Foley denounced the camp as a threat to children, citing reports that a potential pedophile was ejected for spying on campers.U.S. The association sponsored a nude summer camp for 11- to 17-year-olds in June at the Lake Como nudist resort in Pasco. They don't remember the positive,' Zadanoff told the Times.įoley's office said it went after Zadanoff because he's the former president of the American Sunbathing Association, later renamed the American Association for Nude Recreation. Nevertheless the investigation taints you. He complained that the videos have been misconstrued as morally wrong when they show nothing more than nonsexual nudism. 'I wasn't going to out of principle,' Zadanoff said Friday, after fielding requests from news outlets around the country. On Thursday, the day the story broke in the Times, Zadanoff pulled the pageant videos from his Web site. Zadanoff defended his right to market videos portraying what he called social family nudism, but admitted that he buckled under pressure from Foley and other critics.

The tapes, produced in countries such as Russia where child protection laws differ from those in the United States, feature girls under such categories as 'teens,' 'junior teens' and 'junior miss.' Petersburg Times on Thursday to complain about the videos. Zadanoff's case came to the governor's attention after U.S.

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