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.
I'm walking in the sand with my bare feetMy body is bare i have no protection
The bear used his bare feet to walk .
Bare Wires was created on 1968-06-21.
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The pioneer stage of succession is the one with a bare bottom.
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The patient lies bare-chested on an examination table
Because the photographer likes looking at bare chested boys and/or feels his target audience would like to do so.Or, possibly, the photographer might be trying to get some kind of contrast between skin tone and background color because he or she feels it's visually interesting, and bare chested boys provide a relatively high amount of skin tone area without the controversy involved in photographing bare chested girls. Particularly if the chests in question belong to those under the age of 18.
Buck Shelford
It means bare chested or naked from the waste up. Bar overkropp
Males can walk about new chested I don't know of any public place including beaches that permit females to do so there are a few jurists communities along the coast but no place public
In certain African native tribes, women often have their breasts on display as it is seen as socially acceptable. There are also native Amazonian tribes where it is socially acceptable to have women's breasts on display.
It depends on your country. Generally, no, it isn't. However there are some regions where such an act is considered disgusting and inappropriate, usually in the Middle East, where penalties are still extremely harsh. Some buildings and some estates will require a male to wear a top for hygiene reasons.
Only one of 16 different types of gladiators wore armour. This was the provocator (challenger) who wore a breastplate and whose armament was similar to that of a Roman soldiers. All other types of gladiators fought bare chested. This was a symbol of defiance against death.
Because of the patriarchy.
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There is both sex and nudity in Funny People.A man (bare-chested) and a woman (bare breasts are seen) are shown, waist-up, engaged in intercourse.A man and a woman are shown, presumably nude but wrapped in sheets, lying in bed together, implying they had sex.Numerous instances where characters talk about sex and make crude sexual comments