21.   While some residents could care less what goes on downtown, others say the police are right to crack down on public nudity.

22.   But in recent months, rangers began patrolling the beach to enforce a local law banning public nudity, said park superintendent John King.

23.   Public nudity is associated with original sin, and most Christian denominations encourage modesty in dress so as not to inflame lustful passions.

24.   Schnapps toasts, topless beaches and sauna baths are not only bizarre to many Muslims, but contrary to the Quran, which prohibits alcohol and public nudity.

25.   Safir argued the nude shoot would violate city and state laws against public nudity.

26.   Some laughed at the sight, but most were shocked because public nudity is taboo in Chechnya, where authorities are trying to enforce strict Islamic law.

27.   The city argued that New York law criminalizes public nudity, but Tunick maintained that state law does not prohibit nude photography.

28.   The city had argued that New York law criminalizes public nudity.

29.   The code of conduct put out by the city warns against public nudity and carrying undomesticated animals, among other things.

30.   Their European counterparts have traditionally had it much easier because of relaxed laws on public nudity.