Why are Women's breasts illegal?

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In Florida, the US, there was a protest last week against legislation that makes topless women a criminal act.

 

Although 1000 women were expected on the march, only 50 actually turned up and were greatly outnumbered by the thousands of, largely male, curious spectators.

 

Only one of the protestors, the organiser Liz Book, actually removed her top.

 

She was promptly arrested.

 

In the US displaying ones chest is a crime for women, but not for men.

 

Now this is a curious state of affairs, because the male chest is as much a sexual attraction for women as the female chest is for men.

 

Faces, chests, legs and bums are all part and parcel of sexual attraction.

 

In Britain, breast feeding in public is frowned upon, special rooms are provided for women to feed their babies.

 

Why?

 

What is so distressing about seeing a woman doing the most natural thing in the world, feeding her baby?

 

In most parts of the world, women walk around with their breasts exposed, suckle their young and nobody bats an eyelid.

 

Why is an ordinary, functional part of a woman¡¯s anatomy treated in such a singular and perverse manner?

 

One only has to see the reaction to Janet Jackson¡¯s barely exposed breast to realize that there is something seriously wrong with Western culture.

 

And the same people that protest against a woman¡¯s bare chest are also those that seek to get the viewing certificate for Gibson¡¯s pornographically violent Passion lowered so that their little children can see it.

 

Violence is okay, but nudity is not.

 

What sorts of values are these?

 

yechydda, 
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's funny. When people think of issues like this, they think of sleek, beautiful women with nice round 36Cs. Same with men, when you mention men's chests, the immediate thought is a muscular, manly chest.

Go to the average nudist colony. What you get instead is pale, flabby 50 year olds with everything sagging 3 feet lower than it should. Listen, if everyone looked like a model I think it would be legal to walk around completely naked, 24/7. The fact is though, you don't want to see the average person even partially nude. The average woman doesn't want to see the average chunky-guy chest, and the average man doesn't want to see the average National Geographic boobs.

That's why you have no shirt, no shoes, no service, even for men. Hell, I would be more in favor for outlawing toplessness in males than legalizing it for females.

Hooray for modesty. It keeps us from having to look at the floor and not seem repulsed.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Listen, if everyone looked like a model I think it would be legal to walk around completely naked, 24/7. The fact is though, you don't want to see the average person even partially nude
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Hilarious and a good point!

Naturally I was referring to my own chiselled, sleek torso that drive women wild. Clearly, it is my solemn duty NOT to expose this hunk on man-flesh for fear of arousing the passions of every female passer by.

Busy day again I see BakerSt?

yechydda,
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well actually if you ever turned on your tv or looked in a magazine you'd see that breasts are not illegal....nipples are. Nipples have been persecuted for decades. Even Victoria's Secret catalogs airbrush out nipples from their see-through bras....this seems like false advertising to me because clearly the nipples of one who purchases said bras will show through. Lil' Kim can wear a top on national tv that only covers her nipple and apparently that's okay.........but a nipple............god no! What gives? Can't we just get over it..............I think I got over it when I saw About Schmidt when I saw Kathy Bates full frontal.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can't decide whether I agree with you or not. I'll start to lean towards "yes, we need to be more accepting of the human body, then it won't be so taboo.", but then I remember visiting Mexico last summer and watching a Mexican woman just flop her stuff out while she was trying to sell me a bracelet.....yeah, I'm still undecided. That's not something I wanted to see, not at all.

Trinitie
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
yechydda,


what does that mean?

btw, you crack'n me up with your torso comment. haha

Trinitie
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sex is violence. What is your point.

(wink)
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
That was excellent Baker Street:)

And as far as the two being equivalent, I disagree. I don't think I really need to back that statement up...

~Dan
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Suspect,

It's still a little daft though isn't it, nipples or breasts.

Dan made a good point though about whether all people should cover up.

In Europe, topless beaches are everywhere just about, are there many in the US I wonder?

yechydda,
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nomad,

I have a thing about this awful fashion right now where women show their midriffs with low cut jeans or trousers. I'm sorry to say that most women simply just can't pull this off.

And it seems that those women with the fattest midriffs are the ones most determined to show the most of their flopping stomachs.

I read somewhere that young women were saying, I don't care if you think I'm fat, this is me, deal with it.

I'm not sure about that though!

yechydda,
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Trinitie,

You mean you don't believe me about my Adonis like torso?

I don't know, people are so cynical these days.

yechydda is a corruption of the words iechy da, which is Welsh for cheers, pronounced yechy-da.

I'm travelling around the world at the moment (hence valleyboyabroad) and thought I'd keep a blog as a sort of backup to my notes.

yechydda,
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Poetphil,

My point is that there is none.

It's pointless.

Or perhaps it isn't.

Winks back.

yechydda,
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
The argument that "it's perfectly natural" is invalid unless you're willing to allow the also perfectly natural act of going to the bathroom to take similar public prominence.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bulbous is right...there's a whole list of things that could be termed 'perfectly natural' but that I'm sure very few people would want to see....
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dharma and bulbous,

Strange bedfellows!

I hear what you're saying, but where is the line drawn and why?

Are breasts or chests so unpleasant that they should be covered at all times?

The vistorians used to cover legs too, to such an extent that they even put cloths on a piano to conceal its legs.

Another extreme could be the hijab, favoured by some Muslims.

What about forearms?

The face?

Who decides what is decent and what is not?

yechydda,
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I decide what is decent - And I want to see youthful perky feminine breasts. Often.

Seriously. I think your post points out the problem.

>>> "greatly outnumbered by the thousands of, largely male, curious spectators."

The old cliche - can you yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre ?
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
if breasts are ever made illegal in Louisiana, there are gonna be some busy damned cops, and some crowded jails...
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I decide what is decent - And I want to see youthful perky feminine breasts. Often
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So we create a new government ministry that decide which women are allowed to show their breasts and which have to cover up.

The Tit police!

I like it!

yechydda,
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Imajinit,

If breasts are illegal, we would have to of course have to take them into custody, photograph and nipple print them.

What if breasts, acting out of their own volition, accidentally peek out?

I suppose a faior judge could recognise this possibility and return the breasts to their owner, but under a restraining order.
Enforced brassiere wearing for repeat offenders.

I think we're on to something here!

yechydda,
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dude, that would be crazy! We should try to do something about it.

Capt. over and out! ™
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Umm, You cannot put going to the bathroom and walking around naked in the same category. There are plenty of reasons NOT to do natures duty in public area's. The first and most major is health concerns. The second would be smell.

Being naked does not equate to unhealthy or smelly.

I currently live in a city where a woman "Can" go topless if she chooses. As long as she is not flaunting herself it is perfectly legal.

Who cares if some big/ugly man/woman is mostly naked. Hate to break it to you. 90% of the population looks like them. Or will by their age.

We are not ALL supermodels.

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

As for torsos, I have long said...


Why would women want a six pack when they could have a KEG?!?


YEAH, BABY!!

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I realize this article is old, but I'll say it anyway: breastfeeding in public isn't illegal, not in the U.S. at least. There was a Starbucks case where a worker asked a mother to cover up, not knowing that Starbucks had some sort of policy (imagine that we have to have policies about when moms can feed their kids) allowing it. The mother staged a sit-in and, well, there were a lot of suckling babies at that Starbucks one day. I believe there was a similar incident at a Burger King.

As for Europe, I was pretty traumatized at the age of 10 seeing, not the women topless, but the men wearing Speedos without chagrin. If anything should be illegal, it should be Speedos.

-A.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hear hear, Angloesque.....

Speedo's are the scourge of the earth. The powers of the world ought to band together and outlaw the wearing of speedo's. Maybe a mass, speedo burnin' bonfire?

....Honestly, I can't for the life of me, figure out why some people absolutely MUST wear speedo's. I haven't met a woman in my entire life that thought they looked good!
As a man, I seriously don't want to see the size of your "package" paraded for all and sundry on the beach.... You (speedo wearer) are aware that those people pointing at you are actually laughing at you...... aren't you?

...As for the bare-breasted woman ...... I say "HOORAY FOR THE BOOBIES!" <(<(