In Washington state, you can just be nude. As long as you are not doing anything to be “obscene”.
This is, in fact, what makes Portland’s annual naked bike ride event possible.
Naked siblings, through and through.
Yes, Portland had decriminalized public nudity if participating in a peaceful protest, while not engaging in sexual conduct, and away from certain restricted areas like parks and schools. The annual naked bike ride is an organized peaceful protest that chooses its route appropriately as to not encroach on any areas where public nudity would otherwise be prohibited.
Free the boobies
It’s really just free the nipple, which highlights how ridiculous it is. Even more so when you see images where male nipples have been pasted over female nipples, which would theoretically make those images ok.
I was told (but didnt confirm this) that in Barcelona you can go full nude almost everywhere and there is a naked guy on a bike that is pretty famous there (didnt get to see him fortunately?)
I feel like they might have been wise to wait for a less fucked up SCOTUS before taking this before it.
It’s not a bad idea, as it’s something that needs doing but it’s unlikely to be passed as a federal law, and they’re kind of right that it is unconstitutional.
But this is bad timing.
Edit: It might not be clear that I was referring to the three women who are avoiding to the article taking freedom of toplessness to the supreme court, where I think they’re unlikely to get support with the court’s current constellation. Losing the case now might make it harder to get a similar case before a more favourable constellation of the SCOTUS in the future, so it’s not very strategic in that sense.
Then it was rightfully pointed out that the article was old, and they had already lost the case before the SCOTUS (in it’s current constellation). So indeed bad timing.
Maybe I wasn’t clear. Or maybe there’s an unpopular opinion in there. Dunno. Cheers.
Shoot - I just read the article and saw the related links, but it didn’t occur to me that it’s completely out of date.
Did they ever make it to the SCOTUS? I guess not?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-refuses-free-144949699.html
Unfortunately, though the problem has gotten much worse in recent years, the theocratic leanings of the Supreme Court has been an issue for decades now.
The argument that this is gender discrimination seems obviously true to me so it’s shocking to me that we’re still living in a society where this type of government violence is still widely accepted. I just have to hope that we’ll eventually evolve beyond this type of Puritanism.
None of which have beaches like the one in the photo.
