Protestors Demand the Right to Bare Boobs

I'll go one farther than legalizing toplessness for women, I say we should legalize all 'crimes of one's own body'. Aka laws to protect people from 'themselves'. Recreational drug use, prostitution between consenting adults, etc.

There's a good rule of thumb, if YOU have a problem with some sort of behavior or consider it taboo then YOU shouldn't do it. Don't tell me I can't do it. Lead by example, not by laws.

...dearest Pro...this post will certainly be something to revis-tit and re-mammary...stand proud...

I'm not sure if it is really easy or really hard for me to believe the number of posts for this topic...

Yes its unfair that we get to show our chests while women dont. Please allow women to be topless in public like men its called equal rights :P (Im sure all the guys will agree with me)

I think EVERYONE should be allowed to go bare breasted,...as long as those of "suspect" racial/ethnic/sexual pref. groups are required to wear little "jew star" "happy gay rainbow" and "black,...cant you tell ?" day glow n glitter light refractive pasties on their nippy-tips.

If men can show their breasts, then so should women be allowed.

Honestly , I get so jealous of men on a really hot day . It is silly to wear a shirt or whatever because of this weird obsession this country has with the human body . I guess I should be glad i do not have to wear the whole darn burka .

i know this isnt on topic, but... JJ is gone and current is exactly the same...

Jake, this is the portion of your first post to which I took particular exception:

"men cannot control their sexual emotions nearly as well as women can due to a little known chemical known as testosterone. The bare chest of a man isn't going to send women on a raping rampage; on the flip side, however..."

1. I don't agree that men cannot control their sexual emotions nearly as well as a woman.
2. I strongly disagree that this mythological lack of control is the result of testosterone
3. The second sentence starts off well, correctly stating that the sight of a man's bare chest would not drive a woman to rape. But then by stating "on the flip side, however" you could not be more clear in your suggestion that the sight of a woman's bare chest IS going to send men on a raping rampage.

To sum up: Men have a control issue to begin with but with the addition of testosterone they lose control completely with the result that the sight of a bare female chest causes them to go on a raping rampage of women.

Speaking for myself, I am merely insulted to be told that I lack control due to my testosterone and am at risk of losing it completely at the sight of bare breasts. To me that says that even if by some miracle I was able to stop myself from raping my unclothed partner, I would certainly not have the control necessary to consider her pleasure before mine. Uh...no.

In your second post you said the following:

"I'm not implying, nor inferring that I have little control of my testosterone--but it is something which needs to be in check; and some people just cannot handle it--hence the reason why rapes do occur.

"Once again, you made the assumption I would say, "She wanted it/was asking for it." No, I don't necessarily believe a woman being shirtless is asking for it--but there is obviously a higher risk. I'm not sure of your parents, but with my sisters, my parents always told them to dress appropriately and modestly because it, "sends the wrong message." This is where I'm coming from."

"I believe women should have every right to be shirtless if they want; they just need to accept the consequences. Besides, I was merely playing devil's advocate.
If women want to bare their breasts, or if they don't -- I really don't care -- but people aren't willing to accept the possible consequences"

In the first part, you repeat the theme that rapes occur simply because some men cannot control the results of too much testosterone. Again, I find that argument to be an absurd cop-out. Men can control themselves. Some just choose not to and point at testosterone as a convenient excuse.

In the second, your choice of the word "necessarily" is exactly the wrong adverb. You either believe women are asking for it or you don't. By tossing the word "necessarily" in there, you put yourself firmly in the former camp.

In the last part you juxtapose your admirable opinion that women should have every right to be shirtless with the frankly despicable modifier "they need to accept the consequences" To me that says that you are for a woman's exercise of her rights, but if something bad happens as a result you wash your hands of the matter -- she would have been just fine if she had not insisted on exercising her rights...her choice, her consequences. The whole purpose of a "right" is that it is the people who try to deprive one of a right that are supposed to suffer the consequences, not the person asserting that right.

Your assertions that all of this is just Devil's advocacy rings hollow to me...because while the premise from which you start may be devil's advocacy, you clearly intend for us to follow a trail of logic based on your own opinions to end up at a contrary conclusion.

I doubt that you are a rapist, and you may even be well-intentioned. But the argument is nonetheless inflammatory. I find it personally insulting as a man, but I wouldn't blame a woman to be quite angry as they are told that they need to accept a reality in which they are left to the wolves if they choose to exercise their rights.

I wanna protest in my boobies too.

Guess no one likes to see Moobs...

Yeah, cuz all those guys taking pictures are "reporters".

If we have the right to bare arms, then let us have the right to bare boobs.

Have you ever been to a nude or topless beach? It’s like the invasion of the bipedal flubber blobs! It will give you an entirely new perspective on the theology that we were made in “God’s image.” Giggles!

Go to Boulder, Colorado it's legal for women to walk around topless there.

Maybe I'll do a climate protest topless. Think that will get some attention for a really important issue? And please, no puns about melting glaciers. ;-)

The arguments here are based in Human Anthropology. We are the only primates that actually sport large breasts. In fact, small breasts, or just mammary gland work better to feed the young. Other primates would smoother their young when trying to breast-feed them. However, most humans have the brains to position the infant in a way so as the infant can breath and still nurse. I saw “most” because nurses, and medical people (myself once included), have to occasionally teach a new mom how to position the child in order to suckle.
So why do humans have the large breasts if it interferes with nursing? The answer lies in the male brain which still has the hard-wired behavior to mount a female in the “coitus more ferarum” position or doggy style.
When humans began to walk near and around upright, they began to mount each other from the front, the missionary position. However, the drive to mount from behind was never bred out of the males or even females through Natural Selection in our species, because it did not kill us. Kind of like having wisdom teeth or an appendix. Superfluous but still in the genome.
Consequently, it became natural for the males to desire females with large breast, as a sexually attractive anatomical part resembling the buttocks of the female. Females with larger breasts had more offspring and so the species developed the trait to have boobs. Basically, women are walking along with an ass on their chests. Women usually unconsciously but instinctively know this! Hence the popularity of the push up bra. It makes the cleavage look more like a the crack of an ass, lights up the animal area of the male brain (sometimes female), and bingo bango they have sex, or more accurately behave in a manner conducive to reproduction.
Hence, female breasts are designed to illicit sexual response, so many humans have been covering them up for centuries.
HOWEVER, many tribes and cultures commonly allow women to walk around topless. Until about 50 years ago (until US cultural norms were forced on them), it was not uncommon to see women working the hot fields in Japan while going topless to stay cooler. The Japanese with their topless field workers were still such an organized society they gave us the devil in World War 2. On the other hand, if a Japanese woman started walking around the town topless, that would be considered a public nuisance, due to male sexual excitement, and she would be stopped.
As a cognitive species, we have developed social norms that curb the male impulse to desire sex when they see breasts. We do it by cultural rules and laws. In a relatively lawless cultures, Dad and his sons would clobber the fool that tried to have sex with the females without first getting permission from the family or tribe. Basically, Harry did not get any if he was not going to become a family or tribal member.
In “modern” societies, we carry on the clobbering tradition through laws and good old-fashioned kick ass. Consequently women walking around topless on the beaches, would not cause social unrest, as it would be considered as normal as those Japanese women working the fields. We know the rules; we have been genetically and behaviorally bred up to them.
Yet here is a caveat: In cities (for instance) were women do not necessarily have the protection of family kick ass or easily available police protection, women can be victimized in ally ways, dark corners etc.
Logically then, women should be allowed their human right to walk around topless. The cost to them in negative feedback would quite naturally get 99.9% of the women to go topless in a safe environment. The .1% that would act outside of safety zones would become victims of natural selection, and probably Classically Conditioned to cool any of their idiotic behaviors.
Here is a funny thought to end this lecture: Do Space Aliens categorize humans as the ASS CHEST SPECIES? LOL! I mean, I land in my flying saucer and the first intelligent species I run into has an ass on the front ends! What else would I likely call them, Homo Butt Chest??? Someone tell me how to say it in Latin, please? LMAO!

If men can go topless, women should be allowed to go topless.

Want to see more boobs? Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Everyone spends the first three years or so of their life suction cupped onto one, why not when we're older?