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Jesus H Christ on a fucking pogo stick. Stop It. Fucking stop it. Your point is made. The other side's point is made. Enough already.



No one can know the social repercussions of naked female nipples. We can all have our theories and they are all valid in the hypothetical. I will never understand this need to establish that one person's hypothesis is inherently superior to another person's hypothesis. You don't know the answer. Nobody knows the answer until we try it.



Should we try it? Why the hell not? If female nipples were suddenly decriminalized I would expect that nipples on display would go from Seriously Extremely Rare to Extremely Rare. I mean, shit, even in the Janet Jackson Superbowl Bad Taste Boob Reveal the nipple was still covered and there was an absolute shit storm. Women don't choose their nipple exposure based on the law so much as social repercussion. (Yep, that's my pet theory.) Changing the law will have a very minimal impact on social acceptance of visible female nipples. (Yep, that's also just my opinion.)



The point of the intellectual debate with regards to inequality is that the female nipple should not be forbidden if the male nipple is not forbidden. Again, I don't care about the nipple--the nipple isn't the point. The point is that women are held to a standard which not only affects their comfort, it affects the perception of their morality and character and that is bullshit.



As a woman, I do envy the bodily freedom of men. One day I was waiting at a stop light and saw a man on a bike. He was sweating and pulled his shirt up to wipe his brow. I envied him because it was a completely natural and unselfconscious act. It didn't matter that his chest was exposed for that moment of relief. A woman doing that would subject herself to lurid speculation and judgment from which he is completely insulated and oblivious.



Again, I will stipulate that women need an on/off switch for sexual visibility. In the absence of that, we all just have to muddle through the best we can.


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I haven't been paying too much attention to this thread, because once I realized that there were people who actually believed that that there was anything women should not be permitted to do that men were permitted, I'd be likely to say something that would get me another warning point. But now that we've entered the realm of who gets aroused more and by what, I've got to say it. Men, if you think it is a woman's responsibility to keep you under control, you are the problem, not the solution. The BS that women have to behave in certain ways because men are incapable of controlling themselves, has got to stop.


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... No one can know the social repercussions of naked female nipples. We can all have our theories and they are all valid in the hypothetical. ...

Actually this is not quite true. There are or were numerous primitive societies where women go bare chested. These societies have been extensively investigated by anthropologists. (Though possibly not from this angle!)

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I haven't been paying too much attention to this thread, because once I realized that there were people who actually believed that that there was anything women should not be permitted to do that men were permitted, I'd be likely to say something that would get me another warning point. But now that we've entered the realm of who gets aroused more and by what, I've got to say it. Men, if you think it is a woman's responsibility to keep you under control, you are the problem, not the solution. The BS that women have to behave in certain ways because men are incapable of controlling themselves, has got to stop.

Totally!

And just because she washed off the desexualizer

her daddy sprayed on her before letting her leave the house

doesn't mean she was asking for it!

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Actually this is not quite true. There are or were numerous primitive societies where women go bare chested. These societies have been extensively investigated by anthropologists. (Though possibly not from this angle!)

well, there was also that time in medieval history when two social classes of women went bare chested, the ones who didn't have to work, and those who worked with their chests.

Sorry for two posts, the multi thingy ain't working...

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Robin,

I haven't been paying too much attention to this thread, because once I realized that there were people who actually believed that that there was anything women should not be permitted to do that men were permitted, I'd be likely to say something that would get me another warning point. But now that we've entered the realm of who gets aroused more and by what, I've got to say it. Men, if you think it is a woman's responsibility to keep you under control, you are the problem, not the solution. The BS that women have to behave in certain ways because men are incapable of controlling themselves, has got to stop.

Preach it!

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Yes, nipples are the first link of the VAN-triangle to go down! (Vagina-Asshole-Nipples)

We need to place our hopes with our celebrities. I not following the latest in the cutting edge fronts in the field of nudity but i have noticed it is already ok to wear transparent dresses at events. So we are moving forward.

The music videos have been inspirational this year. One can expect that based on the current progress, it will not be long before it is ok to enjoy porn with others in public plaves and discuss it.

One thing i will also wish for next year is that people stop being so judgmental about masturbation.

They tell me about their nice sex with someone and i tell them about my nice masturbation and they look me like i am really weird.

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