No "BLUE MAN GROUP" DEFENSE: Re: Word "Opaque" in Nudity Ordinance Poor Choice

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

Jennifer:

I do not have a full copy of the ordinance to plow through, but if you read 
it I believe (if I remember it correctly. the only full reading I did of the 
ordinance was at the city council meeting) they added a specific restriction 
on "painted" breasts and latex coatings, so I believe the ordinance does not 
allow a "blue man group" defense.  This language was in direct response, I 
heard, to some women who were out in public in Moscow with painted breasts.  
Now there's an erotic display for you!  Breasts painted with heavy blue 
latex paint!  This seems more like a scarlet letter punishment for a loose 
women than an erotic display.

But why do you ask me?  Seek professional legal council.  You might need it. 
  I am glad to be a man with this silly ordinance in place.  It makes 
dressing in the morning much less stressful.  Ha!

My point, however, is that the ordinance appears to make illegal many 
commonly worm items of female clothing with the use of the word "opaque" 
which means "impenetrable to light."  Many tasteful (in my opinion) female 
fashions allow the suggestion of the breast to be seen through the clothing, 
and it seems most people do not have a fit over this type of partially "see 
through" garment, yet this ordinance bans such clothing, strictly speaking, 
do you not agree?

Ted

>From: "Jennifer Swanberg" <jjswanberg@turbonet.com>
>To: "Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Word "Opaque" in Nudity Ordinance Poor Choice
>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:18:28 -0700
>
>Ted,
>Would opaque body paint or a latex coating such as sometimes is used in
>performance art (i.e. the Blue Man Group) be acceptable covering given the
>new ordinance AS IT IS CURRENTLY WRITTEN?
>Jennifer
>
>Jennifer J. Swanberg
>P.O. Box 9571
>Moscow, Idaho 83843
>
>jjswanberg@turbonet.com
>
>(208) 882-6753
>
>"There ain't no notes on a dulcimer,  ye jus' play it!" - Old Joe Clark




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