Nashville Strip Clubs: Roy Exum: Those Darned Leprechauns!

19 03 2010

But others call the “work of art” The Naked People and, in a great story written by Gail Kerr of the Nashville newspaper yesterday, she recalled that when Lee Thomas Miller wrote the country music song, “Hillbilly Porn,” the statue itself was included in a lyric that went, ” … why they chose naked giants we’d all like to know.”
In 2005, a demonstration by activists for some group known as the Pure Life Revolution, which is said to embrace “purity,” was held around the Naked People statue where everybody wore blindfolds and all their mouths were taped shut. Gail noted it was a very quiet demonstration. She also wrote the protest leaders later explained, “The line between art and pornography is really becoming muddled.”
The next year the Tennessee Cabaret Association, which is hardly a ballet ensemble but rather a group protesting restrictions on local strip clubs, held a different protest, pointing out their live exotic showgirls were held to a more rigorous standard than the 15-foot naked people, made of bronze they may well be.

See the full article from “The Chattanoogan”