Anna Elisa Fattori is a nude model. She works in Italy, modeling at Rome’s art academy. Anna Elisa Fattori is one of only 300 full-time nude models in the country who know the naked truth about the business, which is that they aren’t paid enough.

So, Anna Elisa Fattori is about to go on strike for better wages. She contends that its not easy blowing off the dress code of the corporate life, to well, blow off clothes altogether. Miss Fattori says that posing takes a lot of hard work and discipline and she challenges others to take their clothes off in public and feel comfortable doing so.

Now, just what will it look like when Anna Elisa Fattori goes on strike? Will she and the other 300 nude models created a bare assed picket line? Will she prance in her birthday suit around the Vatican in protest to the evil art gallery owners who want the shirt off her back?

Or perhaps Anna Elisa Fattori is making a more artistic statement that is one of respect for naked people everywhere. Perhaps she thinks that in a world filled with discrimination against race, creed, gender and sexual preference that there is another subculture that is also receiving preferential prejudicial treatment – nude dudes and dudettes?

Well, if Anna Elisa Fattori’s pole dancing picket line pays off, she will be back off the streets and into the art classroom where she belongs. Public displays of nudity may not be acceptable before the Pope’s peering eyes, but they are most certainly acceptable in classrooms dedicated to fine art.

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