Idaho bans bumper nuts, topless beaches

[jmowreader]

This is the state's new indecent exposure statute:

https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/H0270.pdf

18-4116. INDECENT EXPOSURE. (1) Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person who willfully and lewdly, either:

10 (1) (a) Exposes his or her genitals,; exposes developed female breasts, including the areola and nipple; exposes adult male breasts, including the areola and nipple, that have been medically or hormonally altered to appear like developing or developed female breasts; exposes artificial breasts, including the areola and nipple, intended to resemble female breasts; or displays toys or products intended to resemble male or female genitals in any public place, or in any place where there is present another person or persons who are offended thereby; or

18 (2) (b) Procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose his or her genitals,; to expose developed female breasts, including the areola and nipple; to expose adult male breasts, including the areola and nipple, that have been medically or hormonally altered to appear like developing or developed female breasts; to expose artificial breasts, including the areola and nipple, intended to resemble female breasts; or to display toys or products intended to resemble male or female genitals where there is present another person or persons who are offended thereby is guilty of a misdemeanor.

[msongs]

1. is that text from a porn novel? wonder what church is behind this nt

[BOSSHOG]

3. Cliff Notes for the Old Testament?

Imagine a group of wrinkled old white guys in a secure room in the state Capitol drafting this legislation.

[mercuryblues]

26. I'm just trying to figure out

How many of them have man breasts?

[Jerry2144]

54. Moobs

They’re called moobs

[dweller]

2. The shores of the Idaho beaches

Will be littered with the loosened bumpers for miles and miles upon the pristine sands ….







✌🏻

[Wicked Blue]

20. horrifying

[Blues Heron]

4. Fascists are so boring

get a life dudes, jeeziz

[PedroXimenez]

5. they're going to grab our Truck Nutz!

they're Nutz grabbers!

[magicarpet]

13. Nutz Grabbers,...

You can get away with it too if you are a Christo-Fascist.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. And don't forget those areolas and nipples!

Geez. Not even the Bible gets that granular. Again and again and again.

[travelingthrulife]

40. Did someone tell Melania?

[Ilsa]

7. So mothers will now be afraid to breastfeed their

babies in public? Sometimes the nipple or areola is exposed, even accidentally.

Puritan hypocrites!

[jmowreader]

14. Breastfeeding is specifically exempted, it's still legal

[paleotn]

8. Can't get OB-GYN care anywhere in the state....but by god they banned those damn bumper nuts!!!

New bumper sticker...sorry Virginia.....Idaho is for fools.

[chicoescuela]

9. Bumper nuts readily identify the world's real dipshits

[RainCaster]

15. What? No truck nutz?

That so wrong... Every hick needs his nutz.

[Norrrm]

10. A chubby guy with man boobs is ok?

Sometimes indecent exposure is not that shocking.

[unblock]

11. "if the person who willfully and lewdly, ..."

Can't say how they'll enforce it, but afaik, topless beaches typically don't involve anyone exposing anything "lewdly".

If it comes to court, a lawyer could certainly argue that the law specifically includes that word to make it clear that non-lewd exposure is not a being banned.

[Chellee]

12. It won't matter, because all you need is someone who claims they were offended.

"...where there is present another person or persons who are offended thereby is guilty of a misdemeanor."

[unblock]

18. Because it appears in the introductory part of the sentence, it unambiguously applies.

If it's not done willfully, it's not a misdemeanor. Full stop,
If it's not done lewdly, it's not a misdemeanor. Full stop.

That's 100% unambiguous from the construction if the sentence.

The word "lewdly" itself is subject to interpretation, but there's doubt that it applies. There would have to get a separate provision or a "notwithstanding the foregoing" part in order to override the earlier restriction that it has to be willfully and lewdly.

[Chellee]

49. So because it has to be both willful and lewd, and lewd is in the eye of the beholder

any reasonably competent attorney should be able to argue that the statute doesn't apply to really anyone except flashers? People who are trying to shock and upset people with their nudity?

So toddlers that are 100% done with wearing their clothes, breastfeeding moms, people just sunbathing on the beach, wardrobe malfunctions, those people would be safe even if there was some deeply offended, overly pious, whack-a-doodle there calling down both the wrath of God, and the Idaho state legislature?

[unblock]

50. breastfeeding and expressing is explicitly exempted. otherwise, yes, "lewdly" would be a hotly debated term

so in the end, they're not really banning being topless, they're banning certain actions and/or speech while topless.

trials may come down was she just walking or was she moving things suggestively.

[Silent Type]

16. I'm surprised they classified it as a misdemeanor.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. I'm willing to bet the lion's share of people with truck nuts are MAGAS

[maxsolomon]

55. the lion's share of people in Idaho are MAGAs

or Momos, or a combination of the 2.

Also: where are these beaches?

[Jack Valentino]

19. Probably no woman liberated enough to bare her breasts on a public beach

would ever move to Idaho in the first place---

and if she was born there, she would have emigrated by now.

Seems like another of those "performative bills" to me...

[Cheezoholic]

21. I feel dirty reading the law, gonna take a shower lmfao! n/t

[Kaleva]

22. When I think of beaches, Idaho does not come to mind

[jmowreader]

36. No, but we have a few small ones

I live near Coeur d’Alene and the beach at Coeur d’Alene Lake is a big tourist attraction. In Sandpoint the same is true for Lake Pend Oreille. You’re only surfing at either one with a wakeboat, but you can do other beach stuff.

[mackdaddy]

23. Glad the Idaho legislators are addressing the most important issues facing the state's citizens.

Bare Bresticules and fake danglers were just corrupting the minds.

[jmowreader]

48. The genesis of the bill is pretty outrageous

A Nampa city councilor named Sebastian Griffin went to Canyon County Pride one year (apparently so he'd have something to harrumph about at the next city council meeting) and saw a topless woman there. He tried to get the police to make her cover up or leave, and the cops told him what she was doing was legal.

[Abolishinist]

24. Seems as though even the strip clubs/topless bars are boring in Idaho.

[jmowreader]

37. That's a different law

It is illegal in Idaho to have a strip club that serves liquor…so, the one strip club up here has a bar next to it. Get juiced in the bar, go next door for the show.

[tanyev]

25. So...how many beaches do they have in Idaho?

[jmowreader]

38. More than you'd think

We have big lakes and rivers here. There are many places along them that have beach-like sand that people use for such.

[tanyev]

46. I did not realize, thx.

Bet there aren’t many days in the year this Texas gal would consider hot enough to be beach-worthy.

[Srkdqltr]

27. What are bumper nuts? And why aren't male genitalia described in detail?

Geeze Someone someplace had a good time writing.that.

[jmowreader]

39. They're rubber scrotums people hang off their trailer hitches

[Srkdqltr]

42. Oh thanks. My mind went somewhere else

[WestMichRad]

28. I guess that would include

… my excited she-male snowman, wouldn’t it?

[58Sunliner]

29. Didn't they have something better to do?

[jmowreader]

41. Well...no

The Idaho legislative session lasts months when they could get everything necessary done in a week. So, once they pass the budget, the tax cut, the bill relaxing gun laws and the anti abortion bill they run out of anything to do and start writing bills like this.

[UpInArms]

30. Don't let Empty Green or Boobie Boebert near Idaho!

eom

[J_William_Ryan]

31. "...or displays toys or products intended to resemble male or female genital..."

Could be a First Amendment violation, freedom of expression.

Otherwise, such is the authoritarian, fascist right.

[Diraven]

56. They're trying to shut down adult shops

Random people can just walk in, claim they are offended from the sex toy displays, and then get them shut down.

[wolfie001]

32. Montana's gonna cash in on those mud-truck events

Big time. Parking lots will be full of Idaho license plates

[onethatcares]

33. but what is the punishment for

driving your megamaga coal hauling truck on the "Beaches of Idaho" while flaunting your areolas and nipples?

Funny thing though, I was just talking to a friend the other day and mentioned that I was going to take 2 weeks off in order to drive from Tampa Fl to the topless beaches of Idaho but they only have 3.4 hours of summer and I couldn't figure out which month that might be in so......................scratch that bucket list itme.

[Emile]

34. What's a matter with Idaho? Hit over the head with a judgemental stick.

[Mysterian]

35. Mormons spilling over from Utah

My guess.

[jmowreader]

43. What do you mean, spilling over?

When they put in the state line between Idaho and Utah it ran through Mormon country, so we’ve always had Mormons here.

[milestogo]

44. I truly hate bumper nuts.

They are a sign of male insecurity for those who can't afford sports cars.

[Renew Deal]

45. Truck nuts are free speech!

[bluestarone]

47. Idaho is a real shit state.

[Marthe48]

51. Neuter your vehicle

get a muffler.

[Tommy Carcetti]

52. I know there are some lakes that might have some decent beaches in Idaho.

But I will admit "beaches" aren't the first thing that came to mind for me regarding Idaho.

[underpants]

53. IMHO it's the best state with a fake name.

[GreenWave]

57. Psst. Idaho. No, you da ho! Mother Nature has something to say to you.