Crackdown on 'Cleavage of the Buttocks'
Lawmakers in the city of Yakima, WA, have apparently had enough. Yesterday the city council voted 5-2 to change the city's indecent exposure laws to include "cleavage of the buttocks," that is, exposing a thong or G-string in public. Women caught showing off their assets can now be fined $1,000 or face up to 90 days in jail. If a child under the age of 14 is considered a victim of indecent exposure, those penalities are increased to $5,000 and up to a year in jail. The new law was spearheaded by Yakima's Mayor Dave Elder in response to a new trend in hiring scantily clad women to work in coffee shops. Dubbed 'sexpresso,' businesses are now using sex in the form of attractive barristas exposing thong underwear to sell coffee. Three such establishments have opened recently in Yakima. Many of the town's women have complained about the new law. One resident wrote in a letter to the editor in the local newspaper, "For those who do not have horse's blinders on, it's the society that prohibits that ends up being like the Taliban." However, Elder, a church pastor, defends his position, "If you want to create an environment where crime can happen, you turn a blind eye to adult businesses. And that's why this is important to me." Sounds like somebody in that town needs to turn the other cheek.
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crime/adult
Crime happens near adult businesses because they generally open in less expensive areas i.e. more crime happens to already be there.
Get a clue Mayor Elder, laws like you passed create criminals by outlawing the wrong things. Once in the system with a sex crime conviction they permanently lose their ability to function freely as a member of society and are politically disenfranchised. The sound bite "If you want to create an environment where crime can happen, you turn a blind eye to adult businesses. And that's why this is important to me." makes no causal case but links crime and something entirely unrelated.
Is there a even a badly done study that supports this statement?
If big business, poverty, politicians, religion, banking, investments, domestic violence or racism were inserted in that comment in place of "adult businesses" it might make slightly more sense but it might still be a mindless sound bite used to justify a damaging law.
Men, too?
Does this "cleavage of the buttocks" crackdown apply to men's cracks as well? (From thongs OR low-riding pants, I should think.) If not, it is clearly unconstitutional!
Peace.
So are plumbers going to be
So are plumbers going to be fined too for working?
March on yakima
I would be happy to shove my man-ass into a thong banana hammock and march on the Yakima mayor's office.
Anyone with me?
One less reason to go to Yakima
I live about 70 minutes from Yakima and I have to say that I now have yet another reason NOT to go there. Their downtown is already on life support. That aside I know from personal experience that law enforcement and the district attorneys in this region of Washington follow the strictest interpretation of the law possible and seek maximum penalties. This is as much from their perception of upholding the common good as filling the mostly sales-tax-supported municipal coffers. With the current recession people aren't buying as much and local governments are suffering.
WTF??: my ass is child abusive??
" If a child under the age of 14 is considered a victim of indecent exposure"
wait a minute! if I wear an exposed thong & someone shrieks that their child SEES it...
they're declaring me a *child molester* or something??
this is as bad as the hysterical fuckwits who scream that my dog swimming in Lake Ontario is 'contaminating the Lake for my BABIES!!'
just wait until someone starts declaring *language* or other personal choices 'socially abusive' upon others...
("Your dancing offends me!!... your skirt is too short... ")
There are similar laws
They have similar laws enforced by believers in a god in the Taliban ruled areas of Afghanistan, the same in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc. etc. etc., It is amazing how much these "believers" sound, act and rule alike.
this is sick, i want to watch
this is sick, i want to watch beautyful women in strings, they can't stop it