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Maine. In 2010 women marched topless in Portland, Maine to protest against what they saw as a social double standard regarding male and female nudity, specifically the right to public toplessness. Police in Portland did not prevent the march, as nudity is illegal in Maine only if genitals are displayed.
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stems from a multiyear legal battle ...
Exhibitionism. Naked exhibitionist woman on a Budapest street in 2007. Exhibitionism is the act of exposing in a public or semi-public context one's intimate parts – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks. As used in psychology and psychiatry, it is substantially different. It refers to an uncontrollable urge to exhibit one's genitals ...
Toplessness. Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's breasts, including her areolas and nipples, are exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual medium. The male equivalent is known as barechestedness. Social norms around toplessness vary by context and location.
The history of nudity involves social attitudes to nakedness of the human body in different cultures in history. The use of clothing to cover the body is one of the changes that mark the end of the Neolithic, and the beginning of civilizations. Nudity (or near-complete nudity) has traditionally been the social norm for both men and women in ...
Nudity is sometimes used as a tactic during a protest to attract media and public attention to a cause, and sometimes promotion of public nudity is itself the objective of a nude protest. [1] The practice was first documented in the 1650s with Quakers "naked as a sign" practice. [2] Later the tactic was used by svobodniki in Canada in 1903, and ...
Issues in social nudity. Urban skinny dipping in India. Two women of the Zo'é tribe of Pará State, Brazil in the Amazon basin. Social nudity is the practice of nudity in relatively public settings not restricted by gender. This occurs both in public spaces and on commercial property, such as at a naturist resort.
Public nudity is generally legal in Oregon, unless it is part of a commercial venture or intended to induce sexual excitement. Some parts of Oregon (including Portland, Eugene, Ashland and Happy Valley) have local laws prohibiting public nudity. However, Oregon law defines nudity as displaying genitals, hence both men and women are allowed to ...