August 26, 2008 | 9 Comments

They Came, They Protested, They Went Topless

Remember National Go Topless Day? (How could you forget?) Well, we may not have made it out to the protest, but Gothamist did — and lucky for us, they took pictures! It’s all the fun of looking at boobs without having to do the work of protesting. (gothamist.com)

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  • Anonymous

    I love the fact that we live in times where women can protest and go topless in NYC, and not be arrested for it. We really have come far in life. Sure, we’re still puritanical in some aspects, but 20 or 30 years ago, those women probably would have been ticketed or arrested for indecent exposure.

  • Lux Alptraum

    @Guitar_Wolf: Well, it’s legal to go topless in New York, so the protest here is actually kinda moot.

  • Anonymous

    @Guitar_Wolf: Have we really come that far? You either want breasts to be sexualized or not. Can’t really have it both ways. I’m all for keeping boobs in public under wraps because I think they’re sexual, and I like imagining them for my own perverse pleasure. Of course, I’m into corsets and such, so maybe it’s imagining the details that turns me on. Many places don’t sexualize breasts the way we do. Is it better? *shrug* I think it’s just different.

  • PutinMuscles

    @PCBHo: i disagree. breasts can be both sexualized and empowering objects.

  • MalzyWheels

    @PCBHo: Should we all run (ride) around with bandannas over our mouths since lips are/can be sexualized too?

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    Graviy, people. It’s real… & it’s flac-tastic.

    Flaccidity?

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    *gravity

    /fit to be t’d

  • Anonymous

    @MalzyWheels:

    It’s not the same thing. The reality is that breasts ARE viewed almost exclusively as sexual objects or somehow related to sex. Is that the right thing to believe? No, but thats what everyone thinks, and thats why women generally cannot be topless when men can. I wouldn’t say its unfair though. it gets to a point where you can realize that the sexes should be equal in certain ways, but at the same time you have to understand that males and females are also very different. One difference is that women being topless is viewed as sexual while a man being topless is generally not.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t really understand the reason behind protesting to be able to go topless in public. Being a man I have never had the urge to take my shirt off in the middle of a street. I can understand locations such at the beach and similar (which if you go to continental Europe on holiday happens everywhere anyway), but is there much need to anywhere else? There probably won’t be any harm in making it legal anyway, because most people would choose not to take their tops off given the choice. I guess it’s more a case of equal rights and such (which is silly because men and women are physically different) than an actual desire to go topless.