Dear Ed,
The statue could be anywhere in western Europe.
Certainly not in North Carolina.
Rep. Rayne Brown, North Carolina State Republican, Introduces Bill Criminalizing Nipple Exposure
The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-SmithPosted: 02/15/2013
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at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/rep-rayne-brown-north-carolina-introduces-bill-criminalizing-nipple-exposure_n_2695720.html
North Carolina state representatives have introduced a bill that would "clarify" state law to specifically prohibit the baring of women's breasts. Women worried about showing too much of their "private area" should use pasties, or perhaps duct tape.
The proposed legislation, House Bill 34, would make it a Class H felony to expose "external organs of sex and of excretion, including the nipple, or any portion of the areola, of the human female breast."
Rep. Rayne Brown (R), who co-sponsored the bill, said that while it may seem frivolous and even funny, "there are communities across this state, there’s local governments across this state, and also local law enforcement for whom this issue is really not a laughing matter," according to WRAL in Raleigh, N.C.
Brown said that she was prompted, in part, by Asheville's second annual topless protest and women's rally this past August. Asheville is around 130 miles from Brown's district, the Associated Press writes.
According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, the event last year drew around a dozen women, who took off their shirts to "promote women's equality."
The AP reports that, depending on the intent of the exposure, women could face up to six months in prison for an errant areola, with "more mundane" exposure resulting in a 30-day sentence. There is an exemption for breastfeeding.
The AP goes on to write that HB 34 would give law enforcement authority to make arrests and would clear up confusion stemming from a 1970 state Court of Appeals ruling, which said the term "private parts," as then specified in state law, did not include breasts.
WRAL writes that Rep. Sarah Stevens (R), who chairs the North Carolina House Judiciary Subcommittee C, downplayed the impact the bill might have, but that committee member Rep. Annie Mobley (D) worried it might penalize women for wearing “questionable fashions."
Rep. Tim Moore, (R), on the other hand, said to WRAL, “You know what they say –-duct tape fixes everything."
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Republicans... Why don't they get real jobs?
Pax
Alan
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:21 PM, EM wrote:
Hi Jack:I just came across a NEW study, that figures right in to your statue (i.e. "mystery" solved)Note: HSV 1 is Herpes 1 (i.e. labial herpes, "cold sores" around the mouth)HSV 2 is Herpes 2 (i.e. genital herpes)Cheers? Ed HSV-1 Infection More Common Than HSV-2 -- and Now Often Genital
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In a prospective study involving HSV-seronegative women, incidence of HSV-1
infection was more than double that of HSV-2 infection; most symptomatic
HSV-1 infections were genital.
By Neil M. Ampel, MD
February 20, 2013
Covering: Bernstein DI et al. Clin Infect Dis 2013 Feb 1; 56:344
Whitley RJ. Clin Infect Dis 2013 Feb 1; 56:352
http://infectious-diseases.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/ 2013/220/2?q=etoc_jwid
From: JD
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Do you know where this is?
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