From Deseret News archives:
Bikini ban fun while it lasted
Now that I've got your attention, allow me to brief you about recent developments on the modesty front (and back).
Robinson, is this column going to be another one of those double-entendre festivals?
Don't be silly, this column comes with a G-string rating.
Maybe you missed it, but Kanab recently banned the wearing of bikinis at its new public pool.
They required nudity.
No, wait, they required one-piece suits, not nudity.
The bikini ban was greeted with jeers and laughter (and possibly tears by certain males in the population). What is more American than the bikini? OK, a lot of things, but banning the bikini seemed about as likely as outlawing apple pie and the Beach Boys and setting the clock back about five decades. The bikini went mainstream in the '60s, with the first one appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1964, and they've been whittling them down a thread at a time ever since until only a few threads are left. In the '60s they looked more like diapers than the dental floss they are today.
Enter the Kanab City Council. Council members set out to establish rules for proper attire for the town's new $2 million pool. The council hastily outlawed the wearing of bikinis and Speedos and then hurried on to more important matters, such as finding ways to keep dirty diapers and nasty parasites out of the pool.
The local newspaper printed the new rule, and before you could say Heidi Klum and Paulina Porizkova it was making its way around the World Wide Web, and Kanab was the butt of jokes, with full reverse cleavage.
The story was picked up in newspapers in Massachusetts, Arkansas, California, Minnesota and Ohio and swept through the Internet like a southern Utah grass fire. A lot of people had their underwear (and bikinis) in a bunch over this. The phone calls followed. They came from people wanting to get to the bottom (and top) of this. One came from MSNBC. Another came from a man in Germany.
"He wanted to educate me on how people in other countries handled nudity," said Councilwoman Nina Laycook. "I let him go on for 20 minutes. He wanted to debate the issue. Finally, I told him, 'When you come to Kanab you can run for City Council and change the law.'"
Some of the calls came to Amy Peterson, the pool manager, who notes, "They all thought I was the one who made up the law. Everyone was asking me about it."
Recent comments
I thought it was a funny column. Good job.
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