If you follow the reasoning of one person opining on the case of the Naked Man apparently the story of Adam and Eve and their nakedness should be considered obscene.
But first, some background. A man was arrested in Springfield, VA. His crime? Being nude in his own home. Apparently he had walked into his living room to drink some coffee and he was naked. It turns out there were no curtains for the living room and because of this a woman walking with her young son saw this man naked from the sidewalk. She called the police who sent five officers to the scene and arrested him. Now the Naked Man faces up to one year in prison.
Who knew that the Naked Guy in Friends was committing such an illegal act?
The Washington Post ran an online chat with a criminal defense attorney, and one reader made the following post:
Bowie, Md.: You keep reiterating that the prosecutor needs to "show he did something obscene per the statute".
The facts presented in this article indicate that he was doing something obscene. The man has no curtains drawn, and walks near windows so that others can see him naked from the street naked... Those do not seem like the actions of an innocent man.
Atchuthan Sriskandarajah: Being naked in one's own home is not obscene. Walking naked from one part of your home to another is not obscene. The case law in Virginia is very clear about this.
I guess some people seem to think that the mere act of being naked is obscene. This case has elicited international ridicule championed, of course, by the French, for whom nakedness is right up there with Liberty, Equality and Fraternity (see Nice beaches and Last Tango in Paris
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