The journey from there to here
Published on April 6, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In Current Events

Boise, Idaho has an ordinance against full nudity in public, making an exception for "artistic purposes".

So, a strip club decided to test the law by promoting an "art night", during which its patrons were supplied with sketch pads and pencils. The city objected.

That's a glib explanation, granted (the article appears in Yahoo's "Oddly Enough" News), but it does bear repeating that one person's art is another person's pornography. What I do not understand, and will repeatedly fail to understand, is how a ban on full nude dancing in any way improves a community or the lives of its citizens. No conclusive link has ever been provided, for instance, to show a correlation between exotic dancing and sex crimes (except prostitution, which is questionable at best in its status as a "sex crime"); and in fact, there are some (myself included) who feel that strip clubs may help REDUCE sex crimes by providing an outlet for individuals who, for one reason or another, would be unable or unlikely to get a woman to remove her clothes in front of them for any matter.

At any rate, the issue is up to the city of Boise to decide. But personally, I can't get over the extreme hypocrisy we present by trying to put up a puritanistic front in so many communities when our personal lives are anything BUT puritannical.


Comments
on Apr 06, 2005
Debauchery is art.
on Apr 06, 2005
In college Humanities class we learned that the only definition for "art" is "What the artist does".

Does that mean that, since I'm not an artist (to quote Rudy Giuliani)...If I can do it, it isn't art?

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Speaking of wierd laws though. There's a 2x4 mile area adjacent to Lambeau Field that was annexed by the city of Green Bay around 100 years ago. The town that was annexed was a "dry town", and the terms of the annexation required that the area stay dry. Yesterday, the voters of Green Bay voted to lift the alcohol ban on all hotels, motels and restaurants in that area.....

but not the taverns! ;~D
on Apr 06, 2005

Debauchery is art.

Thus spake the Ether Bunny.

But to answer your question, I think it was Shovel heat that tried to defend Situational Ethics.  because we need them.  No, I dont think we need them, but we do practice them often.  I know I am guilty.  I dare say that most are, just a few are not.  I do not like it, I only admit it as I know I am not perfect.

 

on Apr 06, 2005

Speaking of wierd laws though. There's a 2x4 mile area adjacent to Lambeau Field that was annexed by the city of Green Bay around 100 years ago. The town that was annexed was a "dry town", and the terms of the annexation required that the area stay dry. Yesterday, the voters of Green Bay voted to lift the alcohol ban on all hotels, motels and restaurants in that area.....

but not the taverns! ;~D

That is more than a headline, but should be one for the Weird and Whacky!

on Apr 06, 2005
Taking off your clothes in Boise in winter? (shiver) Maybe it's an effort to reduce the incidents of pneumonia among strippers...........
on Apr 07, 2005
, the voters of Green Bay voted to lift the alcohol ban on all hotels, motels and restaurants in that area.....

but not the taverns! ;~D


how the hell did that dry thing happen in wisconsin? it's gotta be the work of a really powerful and totally united league of already legal bar proprietors whove managed to effect that to keep down the competition (lets face it, you can only have about 3 bars to a block, right?) i can imagine a town in wisconsin minus everything and anything but a tavern.