Advocacy & Safety - Should I be concerned?

I bought a jersey from a local wine company. On the front and back it has an image that represents their brand and appears on wine bottle label. Picture happens to be a tasteful drawing of a naked woman with a flying bike. Here is the website: http://store.hahnfamilywines.com/Cycles_Gladiator_Short_Sleeve_Men%27s_Jersey
With people being so conservative and PC am I putting myself in a potential legal trouble?

UD

No.
dc

I guess I should have been more specific. I ride by couple of schools. I think one is high school and another is middle school. I just getting this mental images of bored soccer mom getting upset and me ending up in some kind of legal trouble.

UD

I can't imagine they would even much notice. It's hardly that risque.
dc

Wash the sand out.

It really ought to be fine with all but the most prudish folks. That's nudity in more of an artistic sense, not a lewd sense. Besides, it's not like the image is even that big, most people probably won't even notice unless you're stopped next to them.

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I bought a jersey from a local wine company. On the front and back it has an image that represents their brand and appears on wine bottle label. Picture happens to be a tasteful drawing of a naked woman with a flying bike. Here is the website: http://store.hahnfamilywines.com/Cycles_Gladiator_Short_Sleeve_Men%27s_Jersey
With people being so conservative and PC am I putting myself in a potential legal trouble?

UD

Looks good to me, my LBS has some jersey's that also have tasteful nudes on them.

I guess I should have been more specific. I ride by couple of schools. I think one is high school and another is middle school. I just getting this mental images of bored soccer mom getting upset and me ending up in some kind of legal trouble.

UD

I still don't see where it should be a problem.

It really ought to be fine with all but the most prudish folks. That's nudity in more of an artistic sense, not a lewd sense. Besides, it's not like the image is even that big, most people probably won't even notice unless you're stopped next to them.

And even then they might not fully recognize what they're looking at. Of course there will be those that make a big deal out of nothing.

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Yep, gotta agree with you there. I recall seeing tasteful nudes that are larger then that on cars, vans, pickup trucks.

All children have access to everything on the internet, any time they want it. What's a t-shirt gonna' show 'em that's worse than that? If you think your kids haven't checked it all out, you're in denial.

All children have access to everything on the internet, any time they want it. What's a t-shirt gonna' show 'em that's worse than that? If you think your kids haven't checked it all out, you're in denial.

Let's not forget cable/satellite TV. Or their parents or friends parents stash of porn.

wow you spent 90 bucks on that?

wow you spent 90 bucks on that?

Lol

Nice jersey ...

http://store.hahnfamilywines.com/assets/images/products//pictures/imageresolver-1.jpg

That same label is on the wine bottles some kids are bringing with them for lunch.

wow you spent 90 bucks on that?

Well yes. You always so concerned about how people choose to spend their money? :rolleyes:

UD

I still don't see where it should be a problem.

Overly sensitive housewife with too much free time on her hands.

UD

Unless you are standing on the corner pointing to the nude girl and screaming about it so that everybody notices it, I can't see a problem, and even then.

Back in the day I was taught that if you walked down the street naked, it was totally legal, but if you painted your "Parts" so that they stood out, then that would make it illegal as you were drawing attention to them. Now I'm sure the laws have changed, and different jurisdictions will have different laws, but I doubt this would meet any legal standard of porn. Look at David statue by Michael Angelo!

Unless you are standing on the corner pointing to the nude girl and screaming about it so that everybody notices it, I can't see a problem, and even then.

Back in the day I was taught that if you walked down the street naked, it was totally legal, but if you painted your "Parts" so that they stood out, then that would make it illegal as you were drawing attention to them. Now I'm sure the laws have changed, and different jurisdictions will have different laws, but I doubt this would meet any legal standard of porn. Look at David statue by Michael Angelo!

Several years ago there was a store that sold statuary for people yards. One of the statues in the yard was a reproduction of Michelangelo's David. A mom with her little kids in the car was driving by it and she was upset and embarrassed by it. As she had to explain the statue to them. I can't remember what became of it, but I do recall that it had made the news.

Well yes. You always so concerned about how people choose to spend their money? :rolleyes:

UD

Yes, and I complain when people pay too much into taxes thinking they will get "a big return with interest".

Ride around naked for a while, I am sure the jersey will not appear as bad to some folks.

more people would be offended by lycra shorts

Unless you live in Alabama you should be fine.

http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/bannedinalabama

Seriously...

tasteful nudes...on cars, vans, pickup trucks.
Oxymoronic.

Unless you live in Alabama you should be fine.

http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/bannedinalabama

Seriously...

Why should it be a surprise that it's banned in Alabama? That's the state that bans the selling of adult toys:

<quote>
Since February 2007, it is a criminal offense to sell adult toys in the state of Alabama. The sex toy industry in the U.S. alone is a multi-billion dollar industry with an annual growth rate of about 30 percent, according to The Tuscaloosa News. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2007 that it is constitutional for the state to impose its ban on adult toys in an attempt to safeguard morality.
</quote>

Oxymoronic.

Huh?!?

Unless you live in Alabama you should be fine.

http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/bannedinalabama

Seriously...


Hilarious ... I really thought you were joking ... :thumb:

http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/assets/client/Image/CYC_banned.jpg


As you may have heard, Cycles Gladiator has been banned in the state of Alabama after being deemed pornographic by the ABC. From Bill Leigon, President of Hahn Family Wines

"The ABC did, in fact, approve the label when the wine came into the market in 2006, but suddenly changed its mind late last year. We were unaware of the new ruling until now when it was deemed pornographic. This is a new phenomenon for the company, which has sold more than 600,000 cases of Cycles Gladiator across the United States and around the world since 2006. No one else has complained about the label art. We will dutifully comply with all state laws and is doing so in this matter."

I'd be more concerned about paying $90 for the priviledge of advertising someone else's busines... :-)

That said, the jerseys look nice, the wine is serviceable, and the tight arses deserve to get a poke in the eye from time to time..

I don't like to, or never do advertise someone else's business unless I get paid to do so.
However, that is a nice looking shirt. Very tasteful, beautiful. But it is actually a 1895 commercial or poster for ... Gladiator Cycles, and old bicycle.
I guess they bought the right or the logo, or it could have been free.
I guess good ole alabammer is as stupid as ever. And they say the south has changed? No it hasn't.
And if someone wants to pipe up and defend alabammer, don't. Get those stupid laws repealed first.
dc

I don't like to, or never do advertise someone else's business unless I get paid to do so.
However, that is a nice looking shirt. Very tasteful, beautiful. But it is actually a 1895 commercial or poster for ... Gladiator Cycles, and old bicycle.
I guess they bought the right or the logo, or it could have been free.
I guess good ole alabammer is as stupid as ever. And they say the south has changed? No it hasn't.
And if someone wants to pipe up and defend alabammer, don't. Get those stupid laws repealed first.
dc

The irony is that it isn't illegal to posses adult toys in Alabama, just to sell them.

Until just recently, in the state of Texas it was illegal to sell sex toys and to possess more than 3.

Until just recently, in the state of Texas it was illegal to sell sex toys and to possess more than 3.

Here are a couple of good questions:

a) how would they go about enforcing it?
b) is that per person or per household?
c) how are apaartment/condo complexes counted?

Unless you live in Alabama you should be fine.

http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/bannedinalabama

Seriously...

Given that Alabama has a long and glorious history of aversion toward such things as literacy and racial tolerance, I'd take "Banned in Alabama" as a good sign.

I'd be more concerned about paying $90 for the priviledge of advertising someone else's busines... :-)

That said, the jerseys look nice, the wine is serviceable, and the tight arses deserve to get a poke in the eye from time to time..

In general me too, but the jersey looks really nice and they support local racing scene. I made an exception. :p

UD

Depending on the state, you might be in a bit of trouble if you walked on school grounds or inside a school while wearing it (I don't know Calif laws regarding this). While I personally wouldn't wear it, I say don't worry about it too much.