Going Topless? The Naked Truth About Women and Bare Breasts
More of the double standard
Here’s more of the double standard for you: How is it its okay to read a nature magazine or watching something on television of a developing country and its okay for their women to walk around without their breast covered (which they do this without a worry about “sin” or “exposure” or “indecency”) but people flip out if their favorite star walks out of a shower with their breast exposed?
How about Hollywood studios paying money to their new young starlets to bare their breast as a “right of passage” but they won’t even give a starlet who chooses not to share their breast to the world the time of day? And why is it our arts community celebrate the beauty of the female form on canvas, sculpture and photos showing the naked breast where if you even show a picture of one exposed on an ad or in a magazine you risk censorship by readers or government?
Even in the Bible, Solomon encouraged those men in commitment and relationships to enjoy the breast of their beloved and not to go after the breast of someone outside of the intimacy circle (see Proverbs 5:19). So how can it be a “sin” for a woman to take off her shirt and allow her “girls” some room to breathe?
Isn’t it time we decriminalize the breast for women? Shouldn’t it be the choice of a woman to be able to dictate when and where it is okay to take off their shirts and when not to? Do we see women as incapable of making such choices and see them as “fragile” in need of care and protection?
Trust me I made that mistake recently at a party giving evil eyes at men who I thought were after my girl. She would later sit me down to tell me, “I know you mean well and are looking out for me, but I was in this by myself dealing with guys far more lurching than you will ever imagine. Trust me to take care of myself and know I am not going off with another man without your permission.” I think this is the crux of the problem.
If men can prance around with their chest exposed and not a word of protest goes out to them then should women’s mammary have the same exposure too? And if so, can we as a society grow up and accept them for what they are: the crowning beauty of creation?
Breaking the myth of the female breast
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