Maplewood officials on Tuesday approved tightening a city liquor law to amend the definitions of nudity and semi-nudity in the business section of the city code and add it to prohibited actions in the liquor license section.
The bill passed with little discussion. Council member Barry Greenberg suggested strengthening it to include new technologies. Member David Cerven said the bill went further than he was comfortable with, possibly restricting performance art. Cerven cast the only no vote.
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The bill was passed to circumvent a bar opening in Maplewood similar to Social House in University City, where servers are covered with only body paint from the waist up, Mayor Jim White said after the meeting. He said concerned residents had contacted the city about the issue.
He also said the council may have to come back and change it. He said he’s been involved in issues like this for 40 years, since he was a police officer. “What is pornography? What is nudity? It seems that line is very flexible,” he said.
White said the planned Twin Peaks at Maplewood Commons is not affected because the servers are “fully clothed, though maybe not as much as some would like.”
The council also recognized the 70th anniversary of the Maplewood Kiwanis Club. White presented a proclamation to Kiwanis member Bonnie Paulsmeyer, an MRH graduate and former principal of the Nolan M. Bruce Elementary School.
I’m kind of surprised that Maplewood didn’t allow the body paint. After someone goes to the ‘Vapor’ store they could go see a painted woman or man and then go to the tattoo parlor and have that object of attention pierced into a part of their body, to proudly show others, for the rest of their lives! How sad….
Jeeeze, You guys are such squares. Maybe you look for a place in St. Charles where everywhere you look is the same thing.
What is so terrible about growing older gracefully? And body paint has no substance inferring decency—Thank you M’wd for upholding the greater understanding of decency. We stop now, and take back our cities. Or we die an undignified, slow death.
Thank you So. 40news. It is good someone and many others are taking a stance against the degradation of our community. Using the “paint theory” of claiming non-nudity is no different than any person wearing make-up to cover a physical infirmity—or girdles to barely hid fat. I really do not understand anything in our cultural society any more. Guess i am getting old. (Smile of truth!)