Jennifer Moss And Her G-String Upsets Officials

As the city's "Pastie Lady," Jennifer Moss bares a lot more than her soul as she rides around town in a hemp G-string and flower-shaped pasties to promote Earth friendliness.

"Nudity is natural, but a lot of people are uncomfortable with it," said Moss, 32. "It's OK for children to play video games where they are killing each other, and it's patriotic to murder people in a war. But women's breasts in public? You better watch out!"

Moss, who comes from a town near Corvallis, Ore., has become a fixture around the town of 8,000 in the year since she began zooming around the street on a bike or skates several times a week to promote natural-fiber clothing and the benefits of water.

Folks seemed divided over whether she is a harmless eccentric or a public nuisance.

Moss has been arrested twice and ticketed repeatedly for obstructing traffic. The City Council has heard from some parents who want Moss to cover up.

Her latest misdemeanor arrest was for removing everything but her G-string and pasties in front of parishioners leaving an Easter Sunday Mass outside a Catholic church. Stunned parishioners thought she was naked, police said.

"We got several calls," said Ojai Police Chief Bruce Norris.

The Ventura County district attorney's office is looking into whether Moss could be charged with public indecency.

Moss isn't worried.

"I stripped my clothes to speak the truth, but I was legally covered," she said.

Moss said she chose the church demonstration because "there are so many bad people who are hurting and destroying the Earth, and many of them are religious people." But she now admits that the stunt was "poor judgment."

Pro- and anti-Moss residents have expressed their views in the local Ojai Valley News.

"Ojai tolerance is not eternal," Leland Hammerschmitt wrote in a guest editorial that accused Moss of "naked narcissism" and told her to leave.

Dusty Fernandez of Oak View disagreed.

"In the South, they actually embrace you if you are eccentric or even a little crazy," Fernandez wrote. "So lighten up people! Enjoy the view or turn the other way."

Via mercurynews.com