Why is it illegal for women to be topless

[Oldspice]

Chaps can get there tops off 24/7 yet if a woman was to do the same thing she would get arrested. What's so offencive about breast (men have them!) there just mounds of fat after all.

I can understand not wanting to see anyone's bottoms (or what's lurking from them) it just the top bits that i can't get my head around as being deemed offensive.

Why is it illegal for women to go topless.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

 

[Reece]

I'm sure it's only illegal if it causes offence or you intend to cause offence. Something like that.

I remember a random thread on another forum about nudity and the laws about it were discussed.

 

[penguinking9]

Chaps can get there tops off 24/7 yet if a woman was to do the same thing she would get arrested. What's so offencive about breast (men have them!) there just mounds of fat after all.

I can understand not wanting to see anyone's bottoms (or what's lurking from them) it just the top bits that i can't get my head around as being deemed offensive.

Why is it illegal for women to go topless.

I'm not sure it is, specifically.

It's more a case of whether the woman is deemed to be causing a disturbance.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

I don't think it is illegal IIRC.It's only an offence if someone is alarmed and takes offence.
Something like that any way.

 

[Oldspice]

How can two mounds of fat (which breasts are) cause a disturbance? Lots of chaps have very adequate breasts yet they don't get pulled into court. And how would breasts cause an offence?

I was born this way (i have proof) there's times when i just want to get my top off and be jolly comfy, but some how my bits may cause the coming of the apocalypse (i never thought my bits were that bad) and it's not like i'd be completely naked.

 

[Oldspice]

I don't think it is illegal IIRC.It's only an offence if someone is alarmed and takes offence.
Something like that any way.

I take offence to a few things but i just get on with my life.

 

[Matthew_T]

I think in terms of 'causing a disturbance' or 'it offends people', then the same can be said about guys. Breasts/chesticles are not deemed sexual, therefore there shouldnt be anything stopping a woman taking her top off.

Having said that, in the soaring heat of summer, if the police caught a woman with her top off, she would be arrested for indecent exposure, compared to a man who would just be ignored.

I have never understood the reason why people cover up their bodies. We need to go back to nature.

 

[penguinking9]

OK, a little Googling gives us the public order act of 1986, which suggests that going topless, or even nude, is not in itself illegal in the UK.

It only becomes illegal if the state of undress is used to 'harass, alarm or distress' others.

Essentially this seems to mean you can go topless, or nude, if you want to but if someone asks you to cover up, failing to do so would be a breach of the act.

Ask the naked rambler, arrested 14 times on his Land's End - John O'Groats walk in 2003-4

(Not bother by it myself, but I won't be doing it. Don't want to scare the horses)

 

[Dangermouse]

Pics please, les see what all the fuss is about

 

[Auntie Helen]

I have never understood the reason why people cover up their bodies. We need to go back to nature.

because we live in a cold climate!

 

[Cubist]

Not indecent, nor illegal.

The offence of exposure in England and Wales under the old legislation refers only to exposing the person (genitals)
wilfully, lewdly, openly and obscenely, with the intention of insulting any female.

 

[smokeysmoo]

How can two mounds of fat (which breasts are) cause a disturbance?

The ones you find on ladies of the female persuasion have caused me many a gentlemans disturbance over the years I don't mind telling you

 

[Deleted member 23692]

As long as the nipple is covered when displaying boob flesh, it doesn't seem that much of a problem in general society these days.

Which begs the question.... why are men's nipples socially acceptable more acceptable then women's nipples

 

[Oldspice]

Cheeky chappies. I've seen a lot of chaps chests and i have seen a lot of ladies chest and i have not fainted at neither. I can't see what all the fuss is about everyone has nipples! (there i said it) you have nipples, i have nipples. Nipples, nipples, nipples.....even my bike has em.