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Women in Sweden are fighting for the right to go topless.
  • To melthough and Juliebird.

    There isn't a part of the female body that isn't sexualize (feel, hands, thighs, lips, ass, abs, etc), and whether they are clothed or not doesn't make a difference. A lot of men get hard just looking at women even when their are fully clothed.

    Trying to figure out male arousal is not as hard (no pun intended) as women think. We see women (or men if the case may be), and then we want they. But some of us more enlightened men know that our arousal doesn't entitled to us anything.

    I have said it several times here, and I will say it again; a woman should have the right to turn on as many men as wants without ever suffering any consequences. Don't try to desexualize the female body (any part of it), because that's not possible, but you can have it written into law that a man's arousal entitles him to absolutely nothing. It should be taken for granted that a woman's naked form is not an invitation of any kind, and every boy should be taught that in school starting from day one. I support the Bore Brost Swedish movement, not because it attempts to desexualize breasts (because it won't), but because it makes clear that nakedness should be accepted as norm without any possibility of threatening consequences.

    Oh what a great world it would be if women could walk around completely nude, with no fear of rape.

    Oh what a great world it would be if men accepted, without question, that their arousal entitled them to nothing.

    BTW, nipples expose in freezing Sweden reminds me of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical comic book, in which her grand mother says that she stayed good looking when she got old by placing her breasts in a bowl of ice water every night.