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That Tennessee law is particularly crazy: > (a) Pubic hair, vulva, vagina, penis, testicles, anus, or nipple of a human body Naked bodies do not harm anyone.
by spacechild1 1y ago
That Tennessee law is particularly crazy:
> (a) Pubic hair, vulva, vagina, penis, testicles, anus, or nipple of a human body
Naked bodies do not harm anyone. This is US puritanism at its peek. Glad the author also pointed out the hypocrisy of treating nudity as more obscene than violence.
- LocalH 1y agoInterestingly (and I suppose fairly?) the law doesn't seem to make a distinction between male and female nipples. So an image of a shirtless man violates this just as much as an image of a shirtless woman.
- spacechild1 1y agoI also noticed that! Certainly speaks of the intelligence of the people who write these laws :)
- Pikamander2 1y agoI'd imagine that male nipples are exempted due to the line that mentions "applying contemporary community standards". Of course, that wording is deliberately vague for a reason. Judges, especially conservative ones, have often let states use wording like that to get away with female-toplessness bans, blue laws, religious imagery in government buildings, etc, since that kind of wording lets them avoid including discriminatory language in the law itself, therefore supposedly not violating the constitution.
- buyucu 1y agoDoes that also outlaw medical content?