Gentleman's Club Challenges Nude Ordinance
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BOISE, Idaho - A city ordinance bans complete nudity at all gentleman's clubs, but one has challenged that ordinance by distributing pencils and sketch pads to patrons during "art night." The ordinance does give nudity exclusions for artistic displays which include dance, ballet and dramatic performances, so every Monday and Tuesday, the club encourages customers to sketch the models as they perform nude routines.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Hooters of America and a rival restaurant chain began arguing in federal court over who has rights to the concept of using scantily clad women to sell food and beer.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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The Supreme Court of Japan on Tuesday overruled a 2003 Tokyo High Court decision and decided that âMapplethorpe,â a book of erotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), shown at right in a self-portrait, did not violate obscenity laws, The Associated Press reported. The decision should pave the way for sale of the book in Japan for the first time in eight years. Although it decided that the book was not indecent, the Supreme Court rejected a demand by the publisher, Uplink, for government compensation of $20,370, according to Takashi Ando, a spokesman for the court. Takashi Asai of Uplink had been contesting the confiscation of the book in 1999 and his voluntary suspension of its sales in 2000 in response to police warnings. In the Supreme Court decision, by a majority of the five-judge bench, Justice Kohei Nasu wrote that the 384-page volume of black-and-white portraits, including 20 close-ups of male genitalia, âcompiles work from the artistic point of view, and is not obscene as a whole.â Mr. Asai sold about 900 copies of the Japanese version of âMapplethorpe,â originally published in Japan by Random House in 1994 without objection from the authorities. But airport customs officials, declaring the book obscene, confiscated Mr. Asaiâs copy when he returned from a trip to the United States in 1999. He called the Supreme Court decision âgroundbreakingâ and said it âcould change the obscenity standardâ used for banning foreign films that depict nudity and for censoring photographs in books.
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A new battle in America's fight over  gay rights has erupted in Atlanta, cradle of the U.S. civil  rights movement, where a golf club is resisting a city order to  grant spousal benefits to its gay members.
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A Christian law group is fighting for a ban on gay members
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Animal rights activists strutted naked through Tokyo&#39;s glitzy Ginza district Friday as they urged a boycott of fashion giant Burberry for using fur.
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By TOM HAYS NEW YORK - A woman who bills herself as the first openly lesbian Playboy Playmate sued a taxi driver, police and the city on Friday, claiming that officers needlessly roughed her up based on the cabbie's false accusation that she was armed and dangerous.
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Atlanta - In an unprecedented move, a golf club here has been fined $90 000 (R505 813) by city authorities for refusing to provide the partners of gay members with the same rights afforded to spouses.
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Closing arguments have completed in a trial aimed at overturning a 1998 law aimed at curbing pornography. While proponents of the law saw it is necessary to prevent children from viewing objectionable material, opponents say it hurts free speech.
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From Salman Rushdie to Monty Python, free speech even if offensive is worth protecting, Britain's interior minister said on Wednesday, defending a knighthood for Rushdie which has drawn protests from Muslims.
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A campaign urges prosecution of hotels under obscenity laws - and directs people to smut-free lodging.
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Flaunting bunnies, booze and  blackjack, the first Playboy Club in nearly two decades opened  in Las Vegas on Saturday night with high hopes that its  time-tested combination of sex and celebrity will attract a new  generation of high rollers.
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Move over, Curves. Now there's a hot health club designed just for the boys
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Police investigating the death of a man outside a club are treating it as a racist attack.
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The owners of a strip club and a company that operates adult bookstores have sued the state of Missouri over a new law banning sexually oriented billboards near state highways.