The science of going topless
- Sep. 5th, 2009 at 12:12 AM
From Examiner.com --
One warm, sunny day this summer, Meghan Pleticha conducted a one-woman experiment in a New York public park. Under New York law, women are allowed to go topless, so long as they do not do so in a way that is lewd or intended to cause annoyance. Something similar can be said for Ohio, Hawaii, Maine, Texas, and the California coast. Ms. Pleticha's relatively unscientific experiment involved taking off her top in a public setting to see how people – especially law enforcement officers – reacted. She then wrote up her results and posted them in a very entertaining blog entry called I Did it for Science: Topless in the Park.
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The only time I'd go topless in public is if I was at a nude beach or something like that where the expectation/norm is to be nude. I had no problems being naked in the onsen in Japan, for example. However, being around other women not wearing shirts won't spontaneously make me not want to wear a shirt. I am happily a nudist at home, but I hate having unwanted attention drawn to me in public, which being naked would invariably do. In addition, I hate being uncomfortable in terms of temperature/sensation, so I'd wear clothes anyway just to be appropriately warm and keep the breeze off me. (Even when sleeping at night, I HAVE to keep at least a sheet over me from my boobs to my thighs, or it's uncomfortably chilly.) That, and I'm just a private person in terms of my body anyway... I don't like wearing anything less covering than a tank top and boy shorts. Girl shorts are far, far too short for me.