Free The Nipple

The Free the Nipple campaign has been in full swing, officially, for about seven years. Is it gaining any meaningful traction? What do you think?

 

I don’t think its gaining anything. I don’t see nipples anywhere I go. Except for at a swimming pool, but that doesn’t count.

 

We live year round in s hot climate. Women of all ages here including my wife go braless and think nothing of it. They are not flaunting their assets. It’s all about comfort and casual clothing.

 

To be clear, the Free the Nipple campaign strives to enable women to legally be *topless* in public, not merely braless.

@barefootPatrick Why wouldn't at a swimming pool count?

 

And as for my two cents, I definitely think it's gaining momentum, even if it's not on the fast track. For example, regarding breastfeeding, I hear and read about more and more women who don't care to cover themselves or sit in a hidden room or restroom in order to breastfeed. They are becoming increasingly bold about allowing their breasts and nipples to be exposed in public, however briefly. Some ten to twenty years ago, the prevailing attitude leaned toward hiding out, but these days more women are saying "Why should I?"

 

In the 1970s, the University of Texas police arrested a woman for jogging topless on the running track at UT's stadium. But they found there was no specific ordinance against going topless on campus, so they had to let her go and couldn't charge her with an offense. The headline the next day in the university's student newspaper carried a headline that read "Topless coed makes cops look like boobs."

 

Funny! But they couldn't charge her with disorderly conduct?

 

Don't know. But the university's chief of police wrote a letter to the newspaper that was published the day after the story. The chief took exception to the headline because he said the cops released the woman with no charges. I think he said the cops would only have looked like boobs if they had tried to officially charge her in court and detain her or require her to post bail.

I forgot to mention that the first paragraph of the story said something like "University of Texas police officers apparently were not abreast of the law when they tried to arrest a woman for jogging topless on the Memorial Stadium running track yesterday. "

 

I see nipples poke into the women’s bikini tops at the pool. That’s the only place.

 

@Mr. Man Classic first line! But I do agree with the chief.

@barefootPatrick Okay, then I agree, that wouldn't count. Nipples poking through clothing are still covered, while FTN wants them out in the open.