Issues of the Case

Issue of the Case
Glen Theatre, Inc. and The Kitty Kat Lounge Inc. want their dancers to be able to perform totally nude but the state of Indiana’s state public indecency law prohibits any public nudity. The Indiana’s public indecency statute states: a person who knowingly or intentionally, in a public place engages in sexual intercourse, engages in deviate sexual conduct, appears in a state of nudity, or fondles the genitals of himself or another person, commits public indecency. http://law.jrank.org/pages/12825/Barnes-v-Glen-Theatre-Inc.html The law requires that the dancers of The Kitty Kat lounge and of Glen theatres Inc. wear at least pasties and g-strings. The word nudity means by the court, the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple, or the showing of the covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. http://ussupremecourtcases.us/USSC/Vol_1991/1991_Barnes_v_Glen_Theatre_Inc_501_US_560.htm