Originally posted on breastsarehealthy:
? Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York. Summer 2015. ? I walk bare-chested because I enjoy the feeling of freedom I experience while doing so. The term topfreedom was coined in 1986 by Ramona Santorelli, to describe the idea that women and men should be treated equally under the law, and that women should be allowed to go bare-chested where men may do so. There are many valid, non-sexual reasons for people to go bare-chested. Evidence of this exists in the neutral attitudes most Americans have toward male bare-chestedness, and the fact that virtually no laws exist to limit men from going bare-chested in public. It is a freedom men value and we do not protect society from men who wish to exercise this freedom. Women going bare-chested in public is not actually new, but in some places it feels quite new, and when people see a bare-chested woman they naturally search for her motivations for doing what they perceive to be an unusual thing. Given that the female body is hyper-sexualized in…
? Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York. Summer 2015. ? I walk bare-chested because I enjoy the feeling of freedom I experience while doing so. The term topfreedom was coined in 1986 by Ramona Santorelli, to describe the idea that women and men should be treated equally under the law, and that women should be allowed to go bare-chested where men may do so. There are many valid, non-sexual reasons for people to go bare-chested. Evidence of this exists in the neutral attitudes most Americans have toward male bare-chestedness, and the fact that virtually no laws exist to limit men from going bare-chested in public. It is a freedom men value and we do not protect society from men who wish to exercise this freedom. Women going bare-chested in public is not actually new, but in some places it feels quite new, and when people see a bare-chested woman they naturally search for her motivations for doing what they perceive to be an unusual thing. Given that the female body is hyper-sexualized in…