More Asheville nipples in the news: Moffit’s anti-topless bill makes the Huffington Post

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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The HuffPo article concentrates on co-sponsor Rayne Brown (R-Davidson), but the bill’s the same: Brown’s and Tim Moffitt‘s House Bill 34, which 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.'”

From the Huffington Post:

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.

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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.”

Huffington Post link.

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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3 Comments

  1. richard cary February 19, 2013

    You guys in Raleigh have gone sicko.

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  2. plastic paddy February 19, 2013

    Asheville should really just have a regular column in the Huff Post, Maybe call it “Whats Left Asheville?”

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  3. Sean February 19, 2013

    Does that include skin in general as a “…external organ…of excretion…”? Why does this bug them so?

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