Why are guys allowed to walk around with no shirt but girls aren't?

[PromasMorris]

its not fair the rules people make in summer it gets really hot and guys can take their short off and whatever but girls have to keep a shirt on

[Brendan64]

FYI, girls/women are actually allowed to walk with no shirt in the following countries:

*Netherlands (in most beaches, lakes, rivers & outdoor recreation areas)
*Germany (same as in Netherlands, but also includes public parks)
*Austria (same as in Germany)
*Denmark (all beaches)
*Spain (all beaches)
*Portugal (same as in Spain)
*Northern & Central Italy (beaches only)
*Croatia (all beaches)
*Greece (most beaches and islands)
*Australia (most beaches)
*Sweden (legally allowed on beaches, but uncommon due to muslim immigrants in Sweden)
*Norway (legally allowed on beaches, but uncommon)
*Hungary
*France (mainly on beaches in Southern France, but due to the negative US movie/TV media influences on French society, many French girls have chickened out and choose to wear bras instead. It may also be because of the large muslim immigrants to France.)

*Canada: Women are legally allowed to go topless in Ontario since 1992 but unfortunately due to conservative colonial elements in Anglo-Canadian society, most Canadian women/girls are too scared to do it public.
*US: Women are legally allowed to go topless in New York but due to peer pressure from conservative colonial carryover traits of US society, most are too scared to do it.

To answer your question, the United States is not yet completely the land of the free. Arguably, the women/girls in the Western European countries enjoy more public freedom than their female counterparts in the US.
If you want a change to the current status quo in the US, then...

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of women need to realise men won't really like this idea. I'll tell you why. Most women with natural tits sit down. Majority of breasts are only perceived attractive when they are up. If a women has big breasts they will sag and that's nasty. It won't benefit women like they think it will.

[Boregasmx]

This is actually a very interesting question as most answers would be 'because breasts are arousing' when in fact, it isn't actually in our nature to be sexually attracted to breasts, we were actually conditioned to think that breasts are a sexual organ. People have visited tribes in Africa and all different islands and have found that they laugh when they hear that men are sexually attracted to breasts in our countries and that they must stay hidden. They reply with things like 'are men over there babies?' 'Do they miss their mummies?' In truth, boobs were only hidden because humans in our countries went through a stage where women had to cover every part of themselves (according to religion) as even just showing a leg was considered extremely sexual and would turn a man on, it shows how much of an effect public opinion has on how we feel about things. I honestly don't know why it's chests that carried on having to stay covered though... their only purpose is to feed babies... if men (or women) were exposed to them everyday and they weren't some 'special surprise,' they wouldn't be turned on in the least.

[PromasMorris]

thanku that makes sense

[Boregasmx]

no problem at all :)

[Eridan]

The stage when any exposure was deemed indecent came relatively recently, though. The female body wasn't a taboo even in the middle ages.
www.medievalists.net/.../...W_10A11_069V_MIN_1.jpg

[ElissaDido]

Because guys don't have tits haha.
Boobs are an erogenous zone and they are erotic in most cultures and most countries.
But honestly, I don't see why some women are offended when we say that breasts are sexual. It's flattering to know that our breasts have an effect on men and that it turns them on. It's so exciting to feel like my naked breast can have so much effect and power on men (my future man).

It would be sad and boring if breast were to be turned into "Normal body part".
Sexual attraction is very important and I'm glad sexual body parts exist, it fuels our human existence after all.

[Robin48]

it was normal body parts. You females who make it sexually. It you who are sexual with the breast. Stop blaming us males as being that.

[ElissaDido]

@Robin48 cool story

[archiz]

ayeee slayed sarra

[Nyx_85]

I am totally fine with that. Quite frankly I don't want to see a bunch of fat or old (or both) women walking around with their tits out (plus lots of boobs aren't that great looking. Go to the website '007b') ... Because I'll bet anything that would be the majority. Have you ever been to a nudist beach? I don't know about where you are from but here it is not pretty.

[PromasMorris]

ok yeah that just changed my perrspective

[BlueCoyote]

Quite simply because the people in power who make such laws are men. What I don't understand is why those men are scared to see women's breasts.

[KINGNIGGA123]

well women's breast are a sexualized part of their body so i would understand why i wouldn't want a boner just accidentally looking at them. imagine if a woman's breast were on tv do u know how many guys would be jerking off to that? i know i would.

[BlueCoyote]

@KINGNIGGA123 Nudity is shown on TV in Switzerland and it's not considered a big deal. It's mainly Anglo-American prudes who make an unnecessarily huge deal out of this. Not everyone is an 18-year old pubescent guy filled to the brim with hormones. I go to the sauna with my girlfriend during the winter where we sit among other naked men and women and I've never gotten a boner from that. Just because a breast can be erotic doesn't mean nudity must be equated to sex all the time. Besides, a good looking male torso can also be sexually arousing for women, so if we followed your logic, we'd have to ban that too. I'd rather live in a world where people are a little relaxed about nudity.

[PromasMorris]

true

[KINGNIGGA123]

well not everyone is in a relationship like you i guess so you already have your own woman and you would understand how much of a sin it is to get a boner from another woman. most other single guys do not.

[BlueCoyote]

@KINGNIGGA123 Getting a boner from another woman is not a sin. It's just a natural reaction. But what I'm saying is that not every naked woman is automatically sexy, even if she's good looking. When I watch porn for example, I am in a sexual situation. So obviously I will perceive those porn stars' breasts as sexual. But when I go swimming at a lake in the summer and I see a topless girl lying in the sun, I don't immediately think of sex. I just think "oh a girl is getting tanned".
In the end, anything can be "sexualized" if you only twist it right.

[KINGNIGGA123]

thats actually quite agreeable

[Anonymous]

Because it's the law, if you think the law is unfair it's because of this mindset.

Many people say that the things we attribute to gender are social constructs and have no real purpose. Like there's no "natural purpose" for girls covering their boobs but guys are ok to walk free, if you are going to express this mindset then also wearing clothes in general is a social construct.

Like it's not fair we have to wear any clothes, many early humans were just naked, it wasn't sexual or anything, it doesn't have to be sexual, and many tribes today still walk around naked like tribes in south america or africa.

So why even wear clothes, clothes are social constructs also, it gets hot, why wear fabrics that conceal heat inside our bodies. Being naked is natural. It doesn't have to be sexual.

So if you are going to argue for that then you might as well argue for humans to be free to be naked because there is nothing wrong with being naked, it's actually healthier and it's natural.

[skype1000]

Legally. I believe a female can, if she's wearing a bra. Same like a guy can legally walk around without pants and without shorts, as long as he wearing underwear. However, just about every place of businesses has their own rules and won't allow someone without a shirt or pants, go in, despite it being legal. Also, schools don't allow it either. As far as just outside goes, though not illegal, you might get a weird look by people. Probably not wise unless a model or at a beach. And even if a model, probably still not wise, because for the people walking around with kids really won't care you're a model and will be like WTF. LOL

[Malcom_Reynolds]

I don't know the current status of it, I know there are some places (I'm talking North America here) where it's legally allowed and some where it's not.

Talking with people about it, I think it's mostly a taboo thing. Most girls/women I've spoken to say they support its legalization, but would never do it themselves even if it were legal.

Therefore I think it's more a taboo thing where the majority of people either support it or don't care and it's a vocal minority who oppose it and no one wants to say anything.

[Robin48]

The first reason why we can walk around without a shirt is we males do not get sexual arousal. Second is we do not see our self as a sex object. The third is when we were going up we got conduction to be without a shirt. Becuase our mothers would strip their sons of their clothes and have him be naked with girls and women around. We do not see our nakedness as sexually. Female see their self as a sex object. Female get sexual arousal more quickly than males. That why women can not have an open locker room with gang showers like the males do in their locker room. Female get sexual arousal with other females. The boys and men know you lust about our flesh but you answer to God about that.

[Robin48]

In many cultures around the world girls up to teens, years can walk around without a shirt on as boys do. In many beaches around the world that female can be topless. The America culture is so erotic and fetish about everything being sex. The breast has become a sex symbol which it is not. Now you can not breastfeed your baby in public. Do you remember the china mother in Flordia who was breastfeeding her baby at a public place? Who was the one who were complaining? The women were complaining that it was inappropriate behavior. A group of women gets off on a mother breastfeeding their child. That is right down gross, and sick. Yes, you can go without a shirt. Just be careful females where you do it. My father had a paper route was a part job. He had to go to people home to collect the money. He told me it was many times he would see girls in the backyard or in the house without a shirt. This was a good question. Thanks for asking.

[Clararose]

This is completely sexist. There is no evidence that women get aroused more easily than men, there's no evidence to support any of your claims, other than Americans over-sexualising things like breastfeeding. God has nothing to do with it. It's simply cultural appropriation. Women in many African cultures go topless and there is no issue of them "lusting" over anyone.

[Robin48]

@Clararose

No, it not, what you women on GAG are sexist. Have a nice day. I praise God I am a male. I am so thankful. I not erotic like females. I, not a fetish.

[Scooby225]

Laws change to allow girls to walk around topless. 98% of girl start going on about how they feel unconformable and objectified that men would look at their breast when their out in public. Feminist would say its misogynistic and apart of the patriarchy that men would look at topless women breast. That they created an unfair system in which women can't comfortably walk around topless without MEN ( pacifically MEN not simply people.) won't look at their breast. That breast shouldn't turn men on unless its their spouse's breast blah blah blah. The white knights would join in the bullshit. Than law would be created that MEN ( once again specifically MEN) would be arrested for a hate crime of looking at a topless womans breast when she didn't want you to. And it would all be done in the name of equality.

[matchrestore]

Because despite all of our advances as a society, there are still too many repressed old men in power. Some states technically allow it (New York is one). There are groups protesting this clear violation of the equal protection clause though. Check out the #top-freedom an #freethenipple movements. Attend a topless protest. The only way society advances is if we make it!

[Anonymous]

Boobs are SEXUAL
MEN ARE WIRED TO LIKE THEM
SOME WOMEN EVEN LIKE THEM
Do you want to be a sex object?
Men will stare and get aroused
Sorry, it's biology
A women's breasts are one of her most erogenous sexual parts along with her clit

Have SOME SHAME AND ACCEPT THAT WOMEN AND MEN HAVE DIFFERENT ANATOMIES

Geez

[jacquesvol]

For some people FEET are HIGHLY sexual.
Only closed shoes or socks in your sandals!

[Opinion Owner]

@jacquesvol that's most likely a fetish
I'm sure most men don't get automatic hard ons
It's not considered a "private part"

[jacquesvol]

Some do

[jacquesvol]

And once a man is used to see nipples, the hard on is no longer automatic. On a naked beach it takes 30 minutes or less to get used to naked breasts and pussies.

[Robin48]

That is a lie.

[Robin48]

@jacquesvol

Be sure you never go to a nudists beach or nudist camp, or nudist resort.

[jacquesvol]

@Robin48 I've been more than once on naturist beaches. It takes only 15 minutes and one gets used to seeing everything exposed.

[Robin48]

@jacquesvol

I have been there too! I know all about it. Have a nice day.

[Clararose]

@Robin48 as a female artist who regularly studies nude figures, both male and female, for artistic purposes, I can assure you that there are no sexual feelings involved in seeing someone nude, unless you are about to engage in a sexual activity with that person. Being on a nude beach, like drawing someone, is not sexual activity unless you make it one, and it is harmful to view things that way.

[Robin48]

@Clararose

I know you women fight this sexually thing. You love to insult us males to cover up in what you are. I know the facts. For the truth will set you free. I know about women and young males.

[Robin48]

@Clararose

Nudists activities are non-sexually. The family who practices nudists at home have less issue with sex. They do not see the human body as sex.

[DaniaMQ]

Its not that hard to figure out. They turn on. Besides, why would you want guys staring at your breasts the whole time? (coz obviously if you go topless they will) Thats just annoying A. F.

urgh. Lets just go thinking about why women dont go topless and forget about more important problems in this world. C'mon.

[applesandoranges22]

women also stare at guys who go topless when they have a framed body but the guys do it because they want attention. there are some girls out there like this, but its not as legal. Anyways, take nude beaches for example. When people are used to something they act, normal. So when everyone is nude at the beach nobody is really making a big deal, its just another day

[DaniaMQ]

@applesandoranges22 yeah but still. Girls can stare at guys if they have a toned figure and all. But girls still get that way more from what I see. Besides, I'm happy its not a normal thing. If everyone would go out topless (girls), then breasts would be a normal thing (like you stated), it won't have any affect on the guy as much anymore (sexual life I mean). And then you can also say lets go out without clothes (which to me is disgusting for both genders, let it be on a beach or not) and then that will start being the normal thing. Which will give a lower value to what's hidden when there's actually some clothes off.
But also, even if the guy was toned and all, I dont like it when they go walking in the streets shirtless, I traveled to nearly 5-7 different places and I rarely saw shirtless guys expect for in the beach ofc.

[applesandoranges22]

I think it mostly depends on how extreme they are. For example, an average set of breasts doesn't get as much looks as a big muscular chest or big breasts. both genders look at eachother equally and I know this as I am looked at all the time its just that girls are more subtle. you dont like guys going shirtless because it is somehow the equivalent of a girl going shirtless to me? for example, its almost like they have no respect for themselves so I can't stand when people go out looking for that attention. is that what you mean by that? like the guy who takes his shirt off at any chance to show off his muscles lol. it really says a lot about their character

[DaniaMQ]

@applesandoranges22 yeah you can say that. I really dont like it when people show off (let it be physically or any other aspect in life). Like, you can clearly see when someone is trying to show off their body or is it just coz they are, for example, on the beach. XD

[applesandoranges22]

yeah lol but the beach is an exception for me like its ok to wear swim suits and whatnot but out in the street is just to obvious like we know why you have your shirt off lol

[PromasMorris]

@applesandoranges22 lol true

[DaniaMQ]

@applesandoranges22 lol exaaactly xD

[Icyfire101]

If a guy touches a random girl's chest, it's sexual assault. If a girl touches a random guy's chest, nothing would happen. It's that way because most women see their boobs as sex characteristics, and, like penises and vaginas, they should be covered up.

[Nicole9356]

I don't understand why guys and girls have to match or be equal in all things. You might as well ask why girls can't have a penis too. Breasts and nipples are sexual parts of the female body and they always have been and they always will be. I don't want to see a bunch of guys walking around with erections but that's what will happen if women become equal to men in the whole no shirt thing.

[xBreezy]

In this day and age a girl can even be a penis model if she feels like it.

[bente2]

I'm just gonna ignore the question here because there's no answer that will satisfy you, but I will respond to the picture.

I find it completely hilarious that all the guys (but one) have small ass dogs and then there's just this women with a fucking great german in the back.

[Kkaos]

Because society still views breasts as being sexual and therefore inappropriate even though they have absolutely nothing to do with sex. Yeah, I get turned on by them, but then some girls get turned on by abs.. But I can still be topless in public like you rightly said.

[PromasMorris]

I like abs but like its not that important like I don't look for a guy with abs bcause they don't look after themselves in the correct way

[AleDeEurope]

You can walk around without a shirt, just not showing your nipples.
I do agree nipples are just nipples and women should be allowed to show them too, but when it comes to your question, you're wrong, women are allowed to walk around without a shirt.

P. S.: There's countries where women can freely show their nipples. In my home country it's legal.

[PT1911]

yeah except all the chicas guapas didn't do that when I was there.

Fake News amigo, Fake News

[AleDeEurope]

@PT1911 Hahaha well it is true it's older women the ones that do it the most, but if you go to the beach, there's plenty of hot chicas going topless.

[Anonymous]

Because girls are not guys. There are some parts women that needs to be covered.

As a woman feel ashamed that you even ask that. You should be attaining self respect rather than trying to take away other women's shame and respect.

[Tanisha69]

100% right. have some self respect

[godfatherfan]

ugg... not this again.
Ladies, as much as you might want to have a "technical" argument about what is, and is not, a sex organ, the fact is:
1) Women have breasts
2) men love breasts
3) if there are breasts flopping around us we are going to stare at them. Men NEVER get tired of looking at naked women. EVER
So no, you can't have women walking around with their boobs out because men will never get anything done.

[RealandGenuine26]

It is fair... because for one I sure as heck don't wanna see a trashy woman walking around with her breasts all out... if you are hot wear a t shirt. geez

[WILdBeE]

Because stupid society thinks that women's breasts are sexual, but don't worry there are a lot of people who fight for freethenipps lol, soon I think it's going to be okay to walk around shirtless.

[PromasMorris]

true but its stupid

[mikemx55]

and how many women do you think are just waiting for that to happen to walk around shirtless?
Really... only the looney ones

[mikemx55]

They aren't sexual huh? So I can just touch them, like I would touch your arm or shoulder to get your attention? ... So I guess they're sexual afterall huh?

[Clararose]

@mikemx55 why don't you ask a tribal African woman if she minds when someone touches her breast to get her attention? They are sexual because our culture says they are, not because they are by nature. We choose to sexualize them.

[applesandoranges22]

@Clararose we are not tribes in africa therefor, dont compare us. If he were to touch your boob in a public setting everyone would lose their minds.

[applesandoranges22]

some things are just not possible to transition too. you will never see boobs out in public unless you are at a nude beach or some strange protest.

[mikemx55]

@Clararose well, they walk around naked, but you still can't touch it like you would any other body part.
With that said, I partially agree with that society thingy, but let's not forget that women get aroused through them (or so, I've been told...), so they're are kinda sexual anyway

[Anonymous]

Because there is a difference. Most of the women I know wouldn't want to go around topless. Also with the way some women complain about men looking at their chest that would be a lot worst if they were bare. I love breasts as much as the next straight guy, but I don't think women should be topless in public.

[Smok-E]

Because we respect women's more than men
And breasts are sexual part of a girls body
You'll never see a guy's walking around without underwear showing his sexual parts
What a silly question by the way
I mean guys and girls cannot match in all the thing
Like there are something which guys can't do but girls can that's what makes us different right?