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Answer:Because breasts are usually considered a genital, and people don't feel comfortable showing their genitals. Answer:Because in most of the country, women's nipples are deemed to be "obscene". And as such baring them in public is illegal. It is completely legal to bare the rest of the breast, but showing a nipple will land you in jail.

This is largely due to America's puritanical view of sex and sexuality. Most men find women's breasts sexually arousing, and at the time the laws were past the government was 100% male. So the men decided it was the women's job to keep their nipples covered so it didn't "arouse the passions" in men.

These laws are (very) slowly changing. It is legal in NY for a woman to go topless anywhere a man can, so long as it isn't for fiscal gain.

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There was a time where we only covered sensitive parts from the weather elements - head, penis, shoulders. But otherwise we basically walked around naked until clothing was invented as a fashion. And since then we've evolved slowly to regulate this or that as far as decency is concerned based on clothing options for men and women.

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