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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2005 
Mexican City Council Bans Indoor Nudity
 Associated Press
 Mexico City - Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern Mexican city Villahermosa has adopted a law banning citizens from allowing themselves to be seen nude by the public, even while in their own homes, officials confirmed Wednesday.
The regulation, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2005, calls for as much as 36 hours in jail or a fine worth the equivalent of $100 for offenders in the Tabasco state capital, 655 kilometres east of Mexico City.
"We are talking about zero tolerance...for a lack of morality," said city councilwoman Blanca Estela Pulido of the Institutional Revolutionary party, which governs the state and city.
Opposition party councilman Rodrigo Sanchez said in an interview the measure, part of a larger series of prohibitions, "tramples on the rights of the citizens by taking laughable measures such as contemplating penalties for citizens who walk around nude inside their houses." "I have no idea how you detect the naked. You'd have to have a big operation to try to bring it under control," he added.
The law does not actually ban citizens from being nude in their homes but from "displaying themselves nude intentionally in public and private areas or inside the home, in the latter instances when it is in a way that is obvious to the public or to adjacent homes." Pulido said she is confident citizens who catch a glimpse of offenders will report them to police - although the law also threatens jail for peeping Toms.
The city on the southern Gulf of Mexico is noted for its swelteringly hot, humid climate. "The majority of houses have a lot of ventilation and we give ourselves the luxury of going naked," Pulido said. "Because we walk past the windows, you see a lot of things." |
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