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Art for Nudity's Sake

Brian Doherty | 2.18.2005 1:47 PM


Boise, Idaho's, city council says no full nudity in public unless it has serious artistic merit. So a local strip club sells sketch pads and pencils to patrons, turning the Erotic City strip club into an instant art class. So far, they've gotten away with it.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).