When the staid old Rylstone and District Women's Institute published a calendar of semi-naked women as a fundraiser in 1999, their bold gesture won international publicity. The Women's Institute, after all, is an organization devoted to such areas of domestic exploration as cider pressing, cake baking and the importance of the humble cabbage.

The semi-naked women involved in the calendar were some middle-aged members of the Yorkshire branch itself. Well. You can imagine the uproar. But the women's willingness to doff their duds to raise money for a good cause caused such a kerfuffle that they sold enough calendars around the world to bring in close to $2 million dollars for leukemia research.
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