Not that this item will be generally accepted as big new but it is news. According to the AP, "Nantucket is a step closer to allowing anyone who chooses regardless of gender to go topless on the Massachusetts resort island’s beaches. The Gender Equality on Beaches bylaw amendment passed 327-242 at Tuesday night’s annual town meeting, according to published reports. The measure is not a done deal. It still requires approval from the state attorney general’s office." It was reported that the bylaw was proposed by longtime Nantucket resident Dorothy Stover, who said she hopes to normalize bodies of all shapes and sizes. Normalize all shapes and sizes? Somehow I don't think that's going to happen. I think we will be kept abreast of this situation.
I agree about "all shapes & sizes" normalization not happening. I've been on topless & nude beaches. The naked ape ain't all that much to write home about. If nothing else, this might spawn new limericks about that locale.
Was just checking out to see what was going on and seen this thread. Going topless was tried, and defeated, in both Loveland and Ft. Collins. A year or so ago, we were driving down our main street here and passed a young couple standing on a corner. She was completely topless and held a sign reading "Free The Nipple" and a guy standing by her with his bare chest showing. Both were checked out by local P.D. and arrested. Two weeks later, they were back at the same spot, looking the same way and she was holding the same sign. For whatever reason, they were both arrested again. The "topless" issue stopped completely. A lady in Ft. Collins done the same on a street corner and that went nowhere either. She stopped.
What about Florida? I gotta think there are some places there women can go topless. Was it common when you lived there or just in select spots? This has been the norm in many places in Europe for generations. Sometimes I wonder about 'Murica.
There was a lady from Nantucket whose tits were big as two buckets went out without a top tits went down with a plop Then the people all shouted, "Tuck tits!"
Aha, the Nantucket limericks have once again started to perk up, given how they'd fallen down in recent years.
When I lived in California, clothing was optional everywhere that was not considered "PUBLIC SPACE", so most beaches were that way unless they were state or city parks. I was often met by topless women while out canoeing. They could have been nude, but they were under the water at the waist. so.... I also encountered naked people out hiking through the mountains. It was no big deal to me then, and kind of entertaining. I have no idea if those conditions still exist. Someone from California will have to comment.
One concurrently hopes for the concealment of underbrush for the sake of any observers, and a clear path for the sake of the hikers. It's interesting that there's "just is" casual nudity, and then there's nudity with a prurient slant to it. Context is everything.
John, for the 10 1/2 years we lived in northeastern Florida, aka Jacksonville, never once see a topless woman. In fact, nowhere in Florida, that we visited, did we ever see this. Nowhere. Not even any beaches we went to.
When we lived in So California, Orange County/Anaheim-Costa Mesa, on the one side of the 91 freeway, going towards Riverside, there was a nudist colony/area. A sign that could be read from the freeway and a bunch of mobile home trailers. While driving on the freeway, couldn't see anyone, guess because the colony was close to the foothills with some trees around the area. Went there once, because a friend of mine son was a sound technician for a band and the band was going to be playing there. All I saw was numerous old people nude and couldn't wait to leave. At the time I was around 40 and the people were more in their 70's and 80's.
Playalinda Beach adjoining the Canaveral National Seashore has long been a nude beach. It's never been exactly "legal" to go au naturale, but as long as the nudists stayed at the far end of the beach where everyone who was prudish knew not to tread, the authorities turned a closed eye to it. Nobody wandered down there " accidentally".....it was a hefty trek to get there. In my much younger days, I spent many a day sans clothing there, enjoying my freedom and minding my own business.