Darklady (Theresa Reed) posted these to her Yahoogroup: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/national/17brfs.html?pagewanted=all
NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: SENATE BACKS REPEAL OF VIRTUE LAW The State Senate voted 47 to 1 to repeal a 1909 law that had made it illegal to impugn the virtue and chastity of women. The bill's sponsor, Senator Jeanne E. Kohl-Wells, a Democrat, had said that while insults to women's chastity - including calling them hussies or strumpets or publicly bringing their purity into question - were not welcome, the law was an outdated relic of sexism. The bill now heads to the House of Representatives. Eight other states have similar laws on their books, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Strip Club Artfully Slips by Anti-Nudity Law Feb 18, 2005 BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A strip club in Boise, Idaho has found an artful way to prance past a city law that prohibits full nudity. On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers. In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes. "We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club. Teague said he got the idea when a customer asked if he could get in for free to sketch the dancers. Realizing that "art classes" were exempt from the law, Teague decided to bill Mondays and Tuesdays as art nights, and let the dancers go without their G-strings and pasties. In the two months since they began, Art Club Nights have drawn full crowds of 60 people but no police citations, he said. [In Your Sly Tribe, Robert] _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
