Naked and confused

The legal patchwork of public nudity law in America.

Here is something that should be simple but isn’t: in the United States, there is no single answer to the question of whether it is legal to be naked outside. The answer depends on what state you’re in, what city you’re in, what county you’re in, what a given officer feels like doing that afternoon, and frankly, who you are. The law governing public nud…