

“Indeed, a lot of heavy breathing room.”Ĭlouse, 46, decided to start Fuzzy Navels as an extension of his career in online content. “The court affirmed that there is a lot of breathing room in Oregon’s constitution,” Perriguey says. Lake Perriguey, a Portland lawyer who worked on Oregon Supreme Court cases that reaffirmed those protections, says the practices at Fuzzy Navels likely fall under what’s protected.

Portland has long been ripe territory for lingerie parlors and sex shops, thanks to Oregon free-speech protections that rank among the nation’s strongest. “It’s like anything: You just adapt as you go.” “I guess there’s always something coming down the line,” Clouse says. None of which sounds like great news for a gay adult entertainment venue where the central selling point is touching.
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The disease, characterized by fever, sore throat, aches and rashes followed by painful sores across the body, is spread by any kind of prolonged contact with infected skin and surfaces, and is disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men. 2, with 141 cases in Oregon, 119 of which originated in Multnomah County. Nearly 20,000 infections have been diagnosed in the United States as of Sept. Health officials are now calling it hMPXV, or mpox, in an effort to distance the virus from racist and homophobic connotations. Portland’s queer community might celebrate the launch of more venues to physically connect if only they didn’t appear during the outbreak of a virulent contagion most commonly known as the human monkeypox virus.
