Warning: The above link is NSFW as it has a picture of a topless woman in the article. It is not pornographic or lewd, but here, there be boobies.
[quote]Ladies of New York, you are free to walk bare-breasted through the city! New York City's 34,000 police officers have been instructed that, should they encounter a woman in public who is shirtless but obeying the law, they should not arrest her. This is a good step towards gender parity in public spaces.[/quote]
The comments are interesting. There are a lot of good arguments for and against this. In my opinion, given the culture we have where we relate breasts with sexuality in the same way we relate genitalia, it's inappropriate and seems willfully ignorant to assume men's bare chests are equivalent. But then again, I'm just a turkey, and our breasts are [i]fabulous.[/i]
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How could it ever have been illegal is what I will never understand. In public you should be allowed to be nude so long as you're not harming anyone.