Years ago my neighbor built a fence to block her view of my nude body in my back yard.  Her fence blocked my view of the golf course, so I sued her.  She defended her action by claiming I was nude in public, which apparently is illegal in my county.  Fortunately, the golf course is privately owned, which meant that my back yard is surrounded by private property.  I pass this information along in case someone tries to stop your nude sun bathing in your back yard; all you have to do is pay a lawyer a few grand to assert your rights, assuming that, where you live back yard nudity is not illegal if it's not visible from the street or any other public property.

I trust that your rights to wear a thong in your back yard would be similarly protected...but then, I'm not a lawyer.

Roger, I can't tell you about the laws in your state.  I live in Oregon.  My female neighbor was on good speaking terms with my wife and mem but even so, she did not speak to us about my exhibitionism, but instead hired a handyman to construct the fence.  As the fence went up I tried to confront her about the violation, but she would run inside when she saw me coming (I was dressed!), so I knew a lawsuit would easily prove she was in violation.  As this lawsuit took shape, my wife sued for divorce (that was an entireloy different matter) and so my neighbor siezed on that and agreed to tear down the fend if I agreed to move out of the neighborhood!  Since I was moving anyway, I agreed to that, but I wouldn't hesitate to move back to that same house some day if the opportunity arose, and sue her again if she built the fence in violation of the code.  The only bad feeling I had about all that was that the llawyers dragged the whole suit on and on until finally I told them to get done with it.  They were both milking us for all the money they could get, dammit!

I lived for years in Cedar Hills, an old and well-established, middle-income development of 2,100 homes that had mandatory membership in their homes association.  That's the way to fly, because whenever someone violated the rules, the association's office sued them and the attorney always won in court and the complaining homeowner never had to pay a cent for any of that.  Then I moved up, so to speak, to a classier neighborhood on a golf course (Rock Creek), and their optional homes ownership requirement resulted in almost no one paying dues to belong, so they had no lawyers and no interest in enforcing the written rules.  That cost me thousands to get that lady to take down her illegal fence.  What a lesson!

The lessons were:

1. Check the history of CC&R enforcement by your homes association.  Poor enforcement will probably result in home values dropping over time as people get away with violations.  People live like pigs when allowed.

2. Even though you're definitely in the right to insist on your neighbors observing the written code in your neighborhood, it can be very costly to defend that right.

I guess that Brad Pitt thinks it's legal as he's been caught sunbathing nude by a photographer on an apartment balcony recently- in S. California I guess.  He's threatened to sue anyone who releases the photos, like his ex, Jennifer Anniston did recently over some photos taken of her sunbathing topless in her backyard.  A few months ago there were some photos of Janet "overexposure" Jackson taken of her sunbathing nude at her house too, that they threatened to sue over.

Who knows if any of these exist, it may just be press releases to get exposure in the press......."lose the tanlines, get in the headlines"

In addition to the obvious PR vehicle these incidents provide to the celebrities---it also says  "I've been doing this, in private mind you, but it's perfectly normal"

Now notice that these people weren't doing it in semipublic....like in a visible backyard or deck.