What happens in the Hoosierdome oughta stay in the Hoosierdome
There's a prickly and somewhat humorous thread at Dean's World discussing the subject of public nudity. In considering another response, I tripped over the following, from Justice Scalia.
The purpose of Indiana's nudity law would be violated, I think, if 60,000 fully consenting adults crowded into the Hoosierdome to display their genitals to one another, even if there were not an offended innocent in the crowd. Our society prohibits, and all human societies have prohibited, certain activities not because they harm others but because they are considered, in the traditional phrase, "contra bonos mores," i.e., immoral.I think I've made enough of Dean's blood boil, but I couldn't stand wasting such a great opinion - so it ends up here.
