Young v. Arkansas

Justice White, with whom Justice Brennan joins,

dissenting.

Arkansas Stat. Ann. §41-1812 (1977) provides, in pertinent part, that “[a] person commits indecent exposure if, with purpose to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of himself or of any other person, he exposes his sex organs ... in a public place or public view . . . *Petitioner was a nude dancer at D.L.’s Darkroom, a tavern in Little Rock, Arkansas. Along with nearly every other nude dancer in the metropolitan area, petitioner was arrested in one of two “sweep” operations conducted in February 1984. At a bench trial, an undercover…