Topic: toplessness

Performance Artist Sues NYPD For Denying Her Right To Be Naked In Public (NSFW)

Did you know that it’s legal to be naked in public in NYC if it’s for art? I didn’t, although I feel like I should have. (NSFW for a photo of a lady wearing only body paint.) More »

America Shows Its Weird Relationship With Boobs By “Ew”-ing Time Breastfeeding Cover

As you may already know, a total internet shit storm has erupted today over the cover of the latest issue of Time Magazine. Is this because people think it’s inappropriate to breastfeed an older child, or because they get uncomfortable whenever a breast’s sexual and biological purposes are in danger of being conflated? More »

Topless Streaker Lady Disrupts The Proceedings At Lincoln Center [NSFW]

You know what’s more fun than going to a fashion show? Going to a fashion show and seeing a mostly naked lady running around outside before and/or afterwards. Click through for the full monty (obviously NSFW). More »

San Francisco Citizens Protest For Right To Be As Naked As They Wanna Be

San Francisco’s least modest male citizens recently staged a “naked guy nude in” to protest proposed laws restricting people’s rights to be totally naked in public in that fair city. Before I go any further, I should mention that I first came across this story by way of a link one of my San Franciscan friends tweeted alongside the comment “one of the reasons, among many, why SF is a dumb place to live.” That’s not very nice, I thought as I clicked. More »

Pro-, Anti- Toplessness Forces Clash In Asheville, North Carolina

Guess which side won?! (Hint: it’s already legal for ladies to be topless in much of North Carolina.) More »

Gallery: Things We Like About Summer

Unlike the many complainers who constantly pollute the Internet with their anti-fun diatribes, I love summer. I love it so much, in fact, that I was only mildly peeved about living in a loft with no AC from the time I graduated college until the first of this month. (That’s more than four years, for those keeping track at home.) And now that I have the ability to cool my dwelling, I love it even more wholeheartedly. Sure, it can feel like you’re walking around inside someone’s mouth at times, but how much better does that make the ocean breeze feel once you make it to the beach? It’s with this in mind that I present you with some choice words from my colleagues and my own brain about this, the most controversial of seasons. More »

Ever Wanted To Go Topless In Public? We Did. (NSFW)

I’m not gonna lie: when I wrote up that item about Topless Bowery Lady a few weeks ago, I got a bit jealous. To be able to walk around New York City all careless and fancy free like that, breasts unfettered, the cool breeze rushing across your chest…it all seemed so wonderful, yet unattainable. I would never have the gall to do that, I thought. Social conventions being what they are, there’s no way I could possibly carry that off without attracting an incredible amount of unwanted attention, making people mad, scarring children for life, potentially getting harassed by the cops, etc. Why, oh why, can’t I just air my tits out like it ain’t no thang? STUPID AMERICA. More »