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Article: Nudes and prudes. (Trends)
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- Reason
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- December 1, 1993
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Many states prohibit completely nude dancing in businesses that serve alcohol, but owners of strip joints can avoid this rule by cutting the booze and keeping the nudity. Legislators in five states--Missouri, Utah, Oregon, Tennessee, and Ohio--recently introduced bills aimed at such non-alcoholic "juice bars." But the measures were so sloppily worded they would have prohibited nudity in all businesses, on all public lands, and, in some cases, in private homes.
Encouraged by the 1991 Supreme Court decision Barnes v. Glen Theater, which upheld an Indiana law that bans mere nudity (not just nudity accompanied by lewd or obscene conduct) in public places, the legislators ...