Get your nips out for ....

[Sinned]

This site has an ongoing campaign to allow men to wear skirts as part of their normal wardrobe in place of shorts and trousers. In another vein I came across an article in The Sun about certain female stars such as Cara Delevigne crusading for equality with men in being allowed to go around topless and Scout Willis, daughter of Demi Moore & Bruce Willis, has been parading around New York topless. Well I have some sympathy with them in this and sometimes I do go around topless in hot weather. The natural man in me would go along with them as we battle to gain acceptance in a similar way. But. Somehow I think that this campaign is just going too far. I know that you can see the female breast easily on the internet, in newspapers and magazines, in films ad infinitum so the display of the breast shouldn't be a shock to even the youngest child. Yet I still feel uneasy about it and the legal situation is no better with it being legal in some circumstances/places and not in others. I did try and locate the article and the link is http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... paign.html. To see the full article you have to join Sun+ which I haven't. What is also confusing the issue is that I have seen that there is also on the market a bikini top that has the images of nipples on them in place of the usual patterns so that the effect is to make it look as if the woman is topless. Surely if you were going to wear such a top you may as well go topless?

Sensationism - certainly. Can it be taken seriously - I don't know, it's been tried before but is it any more serious this time. Confused? I certainly am and not really sure what to think about this subject. What do others think?

[dillon]

While I generally applaud bare breasts, I also am aware that there are both men and women who are much easier on the eyes when fully clothed...

[partlyscot]

I think Austria has the right idea. Public nudity is legal there. They don't go around flaunting themselves for the most part, but changing rooms are often unisex at the swimming pool. You do usually have the option of separate cubicles, but you can show off or see as much as you want. Strangely enough, their attitude to sexuality and morality doesn't seem to have been perverted as far as I could see.

[Kirbstone]

Here in 'Holy Catholic' Ireland we may have booted the clergy out the door, but traditional dress-prudism is here to stay and I don't know anywhere countrywide where mammary glands are put on show.

Dress code at all public pools/ bathing places is conventional, all except the 'Forty Foot', a mens' bathing place in Dublin Bay near Dun Laoighre where skinnydipping is permitted.

Tom