After all, so many of my sexual fantasies involve some kind of public nakedness, being seen and desired; considering that, the simple routine of oiling myself lasciviously in front of a sea of strangers and strutting around in a thong became a sort of substitute for the act itself. I once saw an Italian game show where the object of the game was for a blindfolded man to "recognize" his wife by feeling up a row of naked contestants. These house regulations commonly specify that women, but not men, must cover their chests, and are increasingly seen as discriminatory. In the North, you might see entire families bathing naked: Maman with her overtaxed breasts sagging unabashedly on her stomach; Papa with his grey-pubed zizi shriveled in the cold.

The purpose of these protests is to claim for the official legalization of female toplessness in Brazil under the principle of gender equality. Since the early 2010s, there are reports of some small and sporadic protests, especially in some beaches located in Rio de Janeiro. In the South Pacific, toplessness was common prior to contact with Western missionaries, but is less common today.The public outrage law is rarely used in practice, but in 1972 audience members were convicted of being nude in the Royal Danish Theatre. Finally, I took a warm (not hot at all) bath, and the next day, I could actually put pants on without pain, and the itching of a healing burn started in. The worship of deities symbolized by the female breast in Greece became less common during the first millennium.

The introduction of the bikini in 1946 and increasingly common glamour shots of popular actresses and models on either side of the Atlantic wearing the minimal swimsuit design played a large part in bringing the bikini and sunbathing into the mainstream. I reached out to feed my baby in my undressed state, only to be quickly reprimanded by a beach attendant, and asked to cover my nipples. In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshiping the "Kourotrophos", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis.If they moved at all, it was to turn from one side to the other, or to adjust the strap of a bathing suit bottom, or to take it off altogether. The trend of wearing a short jeogori with a heoritti was started by the gisaeng and soon spread to women of the upper class. A wide-ranging review of 190 different societies during 1951 found that few insisted that women conceal their breasts. In 2022, a woman in Berlin was told to cover up her chest at a public swimming pool, and was forced to leave when she refused to do so.

Female toplessness has been officially legalized (in a nonsexual context) in all public beaches and swimming pools throughout the country (unless otherwise specified by region, province or municipality by-laws) on 20 March 2000, when the Supreme Court of Cassation (through sentence No. Tissiflashmob 2020 was bigger than the previous one, now organized at the same time in eight different cities.Thus, both men and women can openly expose their bare breasts and buttocks to the public during the marches without any problem.