Mexican City Bans Indoor Nudity. next project for the Religiious Right?

[priapis]

Mexican City Bans Indoor Nudity


Dec. 22, 2004 | Mexico City -- Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern city of Villahermosa has adopted a law banning indoor nudity, officials confirmed Wednesday.

The regulation, which takes effect on Jan. 1, calls for as much as 36 hours in jail or a fine of 1,356 pesos ($121) for offenders in the Tabasco state capital, 410 miles east of Mexico City.


"We are talking about zero tolerance ... for a lack of morality," said city councilwoman Blanca Estela Pulido of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, which governs the state and city.

Opposition party councilman Rodrigo Sanchez said in an interview that the measure, part of a larger series of prohibitions, "tramples on the rights of the citizens by taking laughable measures such as contemplating penalties for citizens who walk around nude inside their houses."

"I have no idea how you detect the naked. You'd have to have a big operation to try to bring it under control," he added.

Pulido said she was confident that citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders would report them to police -- though the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms.

The city on the southern Gulf of Mexico is noted for its swelteringly hot, humid climate.

"The majority of houses have a lot of ventilation, and we give ourselves the luxury of going naked," Pulido said. "Because we walk past the windows, you see a lot of things."

[drhilarius]

1. A good law...

There might be impressionable but god-fearing dust mites about.

[Kiteflyer]

2. All dogs and cats

should have to wear clothing too. Why not, they are part of the family.

[0007]

3. I'm not big on cats & dogs being dressed as I'm with cows and horses

along the hwy. Especially horses that are dragging their dong on the ground after having a woody.

Seriously, a politician tried to legislate a law in California a few years back to have the large animals along hwy's wear clothes.

[LizW]

4. So, do they have to go out on the lawn to have sex now?

:evilgrin:

[DireStrike]

5. So what happens when they get caught? Drag them out and arrest them?

Good thinking as usual from the morality crowd.

[MsTryska]

6. is the Crisco Kid behind this?

i'm so glad Ashcroft is gone. He would love to be able to institute this law on a federal level.

[Stuckinthebush]

7. That makes bathing tough

I guess one can wear a swimsuit, but it just isn't the same!

[HCeline69]

8. D'oh!

Pulido said she was confident that citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders would report them to police -- though the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms.

Yossarian lives!
Anything not forbidden is compulsory...

[quaoar]

9. Wouldn't it have made more sense

to require everyone to have window shades?

[area51]

10. link, please

Do you have a link?

[murray hill farm]

11. It is a response to cult type nudists in area

large city...close, close living conditions..these are new to the city...so, just a way of saying...not in our town, thank you! Living so close to one another, families are not comfortable with these new cultists and the exposure to their families and small children..and the nudists are flaunting it as their right. This problem will quickly be solved...just the mexican way!