Nudity, she felt, gave flesh to human fears about growing old, stale, and unlovely. And nothing but blue jeans. Now of course, the Erie, Pennsylvania strip club called Kandyland that is at the center of the suit brought before the court is hardly the Joffrey. Forcing a Kandyland dancer to wear the sparest apparel availible to cover his or her private parts will probably not inhibit ballet companies, Broadway shows, or neighbourhood theaters from baring anything they choose in the pursuit of art. But the Supreme Court decision was based on the idea that nude dancing can be banned if a municipality believes it promotes drunkeness and prostitution.
Artists often see no clear line between good taste and bad taste, what's lewd or tasteful.
He took the smokey, cynical daring of the strip and brightened it with brilliance.