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In the United States, states have differing nudity and public decency laws. [4] In most states, state law prohibits exposure of the genitals and/or the female nipples in a public place, while in other states simple nudity is legal, but evidence of intent to shock, arouse or offend other persons (lewd conduct) is evidence of prohibited conduct.
The laws governing indecent exposure in the United States vary according to location. In most states, public nudity is illegal. However, in some states, it is only illegal if it is accompanied by an intent to shock, arouse, or offend other persons. Some states permit local governments to set local standards.
United States, 165 U.S. 486 (1897), which upheld a conviction for mailing and delivering a newspaper called the Chicago Dispatch, which contained "obscene, lewd, lascivious, and indecent materials". Another case was A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v.
A man convicted of indecent exposure by a sexually delinquent person will get a new sentence due to a Michigan Supreme Court ruling this past summer.
A man who is accused of exposing himself to residents in a neighborhood and also entering a North Texas high school without following visitor procedures has been arrested on an indecent exposure ...
Couzens, a former armed officer with the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, faces four charges of indecent exposure. The charges state he allegedly “intentionally exposed ...
The Washington state laws assert public nudity by itself is not illegal (in a nonsexual context), but naturists (and topless women) can be charged with indecent exposure if they are accused of performing an act considered obscene in public while being nude (or topless) and they have the explicit intention to harm other people through this act ...
In November, Reubens returned to Florida and entered a no contest plea to his indecent exposure charges, in exchange for a small fine and a community service commitment. "No experience like this ...