“Republican state Rep. Tim Moore says that women can protect themselves from a new law that makes baring female breasts illegal by simply applying duct tape to their nipples. On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee C approved House Bill 34, which makes it a Class H felony to purposefully expose ‘private parts’ for the ‘purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.’ The bill expands the state’s definition of ‘private parts’ to include a woman’s ‘nipple, or any portion of the areola.’ Republican state Rep. Rayne Brown told lawmakers that she was co-sponsoring the bill because activists had held a topless women’s rights rally last summer.”
