Re: Public Nudity - Our Community

[Daniel Kronemann <kron4155@uidaho.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Bob Hoffmann wrote:

> I hate to throw another cow pie into the mix, but I don't see topless
> carwashing as a sexually oriented business, any more than walking topless
> is sexually oriented circumambulating.  A sexually oriented business sells
> sex toys, pornography, sex itself, has erotic dancing, etc.  Car washing is
> car washing.  If it becomes "sexually oriented" when a woman takes off her
> shirt, then doesn't every behavior (excluding breastfeeding) become
> sexually oriented when a woman takes off her shirt?
>
> Yes, I know many of you on the list would say "yes."  But those who are
> against "the ordinance"?

Well, this is tricky.  I don't think the car wash was as innocent as
someone sunbathing in their backyard topless.  I think the women were
aware that being topless would probably draw more money.  I don't grant
them that amount of ignorance.  I don't think they were just hot and took
off their shirt.  Social conditioning wouldn't allow that.

However I agree that it wasn't a sexually oriented business, in that sex
was not taking place, nor was the act of sex or the image of the act of
sex being used or sold.

Daniel