Cancun allows them. (Photo: Associated Press)

It turns out that Old Town Manassas is not yet ready to host a wet T-shirt contest after all: A June event that would strategically reveal women's breasts to raise money for the Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure has been pushed outside the city limits.

KK's Temptations owner Kim Skokan, who had planned to hold the contest at Manassas' Philadelphia Tavern, says she was notified this week that the event would violate a new Manassas city ordinance [PDF] regulating adult entertainment at city establishments.

Busted.

Under the code, adult entertainment includes all acts "characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas," where "specified anatomical areas shall mean less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola."

Skokan, in fact, is credited with inspiring the new rule. The ordinance states that  "the opening of a sexually oriented business in Old Town Manassas"—that would be KK's Temptations—"has drawn community concern over negative secondary effects of such businesses," necessitating tighter regulations on sex-related events. Even if they're trying to cure cancer.

"This really stinks," says Skokan, "but they have an ordinance in place." Skokan says she plans to relocate the fundraiser to the Backyard Grill, which is located outside the bounds of the ordinance. The Manassas city attorney and office of Community Development did not immediately return a request to comment.

Over at Philadelphia Tavern, restaurant employees are currently brainstorming an alternate way to raise money for breast cancer research within the city limits. "We're gonna try for a bikini contest," manager Missy Rinehart told me. "As long as they're covered up, and it's tastefully done."