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Go ahead. Take your top off

Would you ever permit your daughter to do a topless scene in a movie?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 72.4%
  • N0

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Total voters
    29

Skwim

Veteran Member
I don't promote body shame to my children, so if they wanted to do it is fine with me.
The body shame point is well taken. :thumbsup:


I saw the thread title.
I took my top off.
Now what?

The consensus around here is; Put it back on. Pleeeeeease!
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Would depend on how tasteful or degrading the scene in particular was.
I know I didn't specify any scene, movie, or kind of movie, but was hoping that one might consider the scene in American beauty. :shrug:


In America, we tend to be very schizophrenic on this. It's not OK to show nudity on prime-time main-network television, and yet we see affairs constantly and blood and guts even more so. Studies have shown that young children are more affected by violence in the media than by nudity and even sex, and yet violence permeates the air-waves. Ever watch Scandal, for example, which has shown torture and dismemberment?
Always a good point. :thumbsup:


American society in particular has developed very warped ideas about nudity, especially in public.
In no small part due to the puritanical influences of the Christian religion.

I think our society needs to loosen up; frankly, that that scene mentioned above was considered "necessary" for the development of the character in the movie seems necessary only because American culture is so sexually and bodily repressed. .
Agreed.
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
It's culturally revealing that uncovering one's breasts would be considered degrading, somehow.
 
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Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
I wouldn't object if it is not for some ulterior motive, but it would be her choice in the end anyway at 16. They're just boobies. @turk179 may have something to say about it, but I don't think he'd be too far off from my opinion, though he's free to correct me.

Who's turk179?
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
Know what?
Lots of people go outside naked or partially uncovered with no ill effects.
Connecting nudity to sex is a cultural thing. It's not natural or automatic.
where ?
BTW I am talking about privet parts ,full naked.
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
?? There are plenty of places where people go about naked. Nothing is seen as wrong with it.
I know some places, they prepared for.

but in ALL places, especially in public areas, that's definitly would make a big problem
 

Draka

Wonder Woman
I know some places, they prepared for.

but in ALL places, especially in public areas, that's definitly would make a big problem
There are nude beaches, nudist colonies where all aspects of life may be carried out nude, and some societies/villages where partial or total nudity is the norm. You know what is neat about such places and societies? They tend to have a much lower rate, if at all, of sexual harassment or violation. That's right. By accepting nudity as normal they de-sexualize it and have less sexual perversion issues than those socities that cover up.
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
There are nude beaches, nudist colonies where all aspects of life may be carried out nude, and some societies/villages where partial or total nudity is the norm. You know what is neat about such places and societies? They tend to have a much lower rate, if at all, of sexual harassment or violation. That's right. By accepting nudity as normal they de-sexualize it and have less sexual perversion issues than those socities that cover up.
I told you I know that some places allowing.

In USA or Europe , does not that make a problem to walk naked in road , or airoport or public areas , with people or police ?
 

Draka

Wonder Woman
I told you I know that some places allowing.

In USA or Europe , does not that make a problem to walk naked in road , or airoport or public areas , with people or police ?
Where it is against the law, sure. This thread was originally about toplessness though and there are public places where that isnt against the law. I mean, legally, I could walk outside right now topless if I wanted to. It isn't covered under Iowa indecent exposure laws, so technically, it isnt against the law for me to go topless as per the state. Some local municipalities have their own laws though.
 
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Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
Where it is against the law, sure. This thread was originally about toplessness though and there are public places where that isnt against the law. I mean, legally, I could walk outside right now topless if I wanted to. It isn't covered under Iowa indecent exposure laws, so technically, it isnt against the law fir me to go topless as per the state. Some local municipalities have their own laws though.
Thanks for this clarify.
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
Just as an FYI, people.

"Since 1992, it has been legal for women in New York state to bare their chest in public for non-commercial activity, just as it is for men. Nor is New York alone in this regard: several states have similar laws, and there is a demand for more to follow suit."
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UPDATE:


TOPLESS LAWS
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The green colored states are those where top freedom is in effect.
The orange colored ones have amibiguous state laws on the matter.
The red colored ones are the ones where the mere showing of the female breast in public is illegal according to state law.

In the USA, though the majority of states are top-free, some cities in those states have passed (unconstitutional) ordinances that annul the state's top free statute.

In Canada, the law on public decency is found in Sections 173 and 174 of the Criminal Code. However, what constitutes an indecent act is not defined, and is open to interpretation by the courts. Topfreedom is allowed in Ontario, Sasketchawen and British Columbia following specific court cases on the matter but the case for topless equality has not been heard by the Canadian Supreme Court yet.

The following cities are officially topless "tested":

  • Asheville, NC
  • Austin, TX,
  • Boulder, CO
  • Columbus, OH
  • Eugene, OR
  • Honolulu, HI
  • Keene, NH
  • Key West, FL at Fantasy Fest
  • Madison, WI,
  • New Orleans, LA, at Mardi Gras
  • New York City
  • Portland, Or,
  • Santa Fe, NM
  • South Miami Beach, FL (on the beach)
  • Washington, DC

It is also legal to be topless in public in the following countries:

  • Canada
  • (more countries to be added soon)
  • sourcerl]n.
 
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turk179

I smell something....
Know what?
Lots of people go outside naked or partially uncovered with no ill effects.
Connecting nudity to sex is a cultural thing. It's not natural or automatic.
Some theories in a particular Psychology Today article seem to disagree with that but I'm a bit on the fence one way or the other.

To answer the OP, I voted yes because I am a big fan of art. As long as she wanted to do it and it was done to build on the character I would be perfectly fine with it.
 
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