Is topless female sunbathing inappropriate?

[Dezzie]

The difference with a topless woman sunbathing and a work of art like the Venus de Milo is.....what?

Another great point. I agree with you... there really isn't any difference here. Although, some men can't contain themselves over a naked painting either. They be looking like this: :drool: UGH

 

[Rakhel]

Another goody?

GoTopless
NSFW. nude pictures

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Another goody?

GoTopless
NSFW. nude pictures

Hahaaa! Hilarious and awesome at the same time.

 

[Rakhel]

Did you see where they are planning on using the 14th amendment?

 

[Scuba Pete]

My friends, this is simply WRONG on so many levels! It was immoral for the woman in question to have spread lotion on her exposed breasts. That's my job! Next time, she should let me do it and be set free from her life of sin.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

My friends, this is simply WRONG on so many levels! It was immoral for the woman in question to have spread lotion on her exposed breasts. That's my job! Next time, she should let me do it and be set free from her life of sin.

Pete! Holy crap! *runs and glomps*

Nice to see you back. And I disagree...it should be MY job.

 

[Rakhel]

My friends, this is simply WRONG on so many levels! It was immoral for the woman in question to have spread lotion on her exposed breasts. That's my job! Next time, she should let me do it and be set free from her life of sin.

Pete! Holy crap! *runs and glomps*

Nice to see you back. And I disagree...it should be MY job.

Now now now. no need to fight. here you can rub....ummm wrong forum

 

[Scuba Pete]

Pete! Holy crap! *runs and glomps*

You can glomp me anytime.

Nice to see you back. And I disagree...it should be MY job.

Too late: I claimed it. Snoozers are loosers!

 

[tumbleweed41]

From the GoTopless site....

Topless Laws
In the following places, top freedom is in effect:

Canada
Some provinces of Canada including
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario (where equality has been tested and upheld several times)

United States
California coast, such as Santa Cruz
Hawaii
Maine
New York - text of the law in NY: NY v Santorelli
Ohio
Texas

Cities
Some cities and localities of the United States, including
Boulder, Colorado
Eugene, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Ashland, Oregon
Oregon Country Fair
Lucy Vincent beach in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard
South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
Key West, Florida
Fantasy Fest
New Orleans, Louisiana
Mardi Gras
Washington, D.C.
Columbus, OH

Even where topfree is legal, police might still arrest those practicing it for disorderly conduct or similar charges but do not let that deter you from exercising your constitutional right.

If you are going topless in public in these cities and not breaking the law behaving in a disorderly manner, no one can incriminate you. If they do... sue them as Phoenix Feeley did in NYC in 2007 and earned $29,000 in that lawsuit. Don't let the police get away with violating your top free rights. The law is the law and the police must follow it too!

 

[Engyo]

I'd say this is on-topic........

 

[Rakhel]

Here's another story about being topless. Apparently the NYC Transit Authority has ruled that if a man can go topless in the subways, then so can a woman
Photographer Zach Hyman photographs Jocelyn Saldana naked on L train - NYPOST.com

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Here's another story about being topless. Apparently the NYC Transit Authority has ruled that if a man can go topless in the subways, then so can a woman
Photographer Zach Hyman photographs Jocelyn Saldana naked on L train - NYPOST.com

I laughed when he said that people smile when they see a naked woman but freak out when they see a penis.

Personally, I'd smile either way.

 

[Magic Man]

Nice to see you back. And I disagree...it should be MY job.

I have no problem with that, as long as I get to watch.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I have no problem with that, as long as I get to watch.

You sure you won't be "troubled" by the sight?

 

[dawny0826]

But again, what's so bad about it? From the baby's point-of-view, it's nothing more than food. Is it somehow worse for a child to witness breastfeeding than for a baby to suck on a boob?!

There isn't anything wrong with breastfeeding but I'm more comfortable with discretion. And believe you me, if I breast fed at a public place around here without covering up, people would bellyache. Why expose myself if I don't have to? I don't particularly want to see bare boobs in my peripheral vision, while enjoying dinner with my family.

Which reminds me. I was down in Mexico many years ago, and I remember seeing a woman breastfeeding her baby. She wasn't covering at all, yet nobody around her--men, other women, or children--seemed the least bit phased. Why is it America that stands alone as the only nation in Western society that equates public nudity with vulgarity?

Opression. Chauvanism. Shall I go on?

Be mindful, I haven't declared public nudity to a thing of vulgarity - I'm just more cautious about it.

Then don't. Nobody is saying that you *must* go topless when you sunbathe. Hell, just take a look at pictures of some beaches in Spain, and you'll see that only some of the women choose to go topless.

All we're asking is that women receive the same choice that men receive of whether or not to take their tops off.

I'm not disputing that women should have the right to go topless but I do think that there's a time and place for it, just as there's a time and place for men to go with or without a shirt on.

 

[methylatedghosts]

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[Penumbra]

The question is prompted by an article describing why a woman was charged with "sensuously rubbing in sun cream," which “troubled [a woman's] sons aged 14 and 12.”

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So, aside from the protecting-oneself-with-sun-screen issue, Is topless female sunbathing inappropriate?

No, I don't think so.

 

[MoonWater]

has there been any follow-up on this story?