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gentlemanjubbins
Same in Ohio
glovelyday
Why the Canadian inferiority complex? Its legal in New York too. In Times Square topless women pose with purile tourists. Mostly Canadians
hotlikesauce69
Thank god! there's nothing like letting the titties breath when it's hot af outside.
TRDPaul
It should just be legal everywhere, it's ludicrous that this even a debate
BrainTransplant
Shame it's cold af most of the year.
Poseidoposeido
cold titties are pointy tiities!
TheRealAethrys
Didn't go far enough. Mandatory toplessness in summer! #freethenipple
Manton11235
If you are driving you have to wear a top, "Distracted driving."
jandrem
Legal in Ohio too, just that most women choose not to do it.
BavarianGuy
Because all ohio men seeing boobs in the wild react the same? https://media.giphy.com/media/XMYsUSMIilSG4/giphy.gif
NJCabinetGuy
New York City also .... but you'd have to be crazy to go topless there.
theboned1
Canada is starting to sound like this false Utopia we were always told doesnt exist.
thecommoncanadian
I live in Canada, definitely not a utopia
Stebbenwolf
It’s a patchwork system throughout the US. It’s all rather confusing and stupid that it’s not legal everywhere.
zFUBARz
I was a young child in Ontario when street girls were protesting the laws against this at the time. By being topless everywhere. It was nice
meh001
As a Canadian can confirm, although I've only seen it practiced once or twice
WhattaYaLookingFor
Here too, since uhmmm 30+ years or so? No one looks much anymore.
UndulatingTerrain
Yeah, and?
msa011
As it should be
Kraken639
In Calgary we tried to hold a private nude swimming event only to have people threaten to bomb the swimming pool once the event was on fb.
Xarr
Edmonton's went well though.
Kraken639
Good to hear!
SomeDetroitGuy
Well, in Ontario and British Columbia, apparently. Not sure about the rest of Canada.
GreatWhiteShirk
Im Canadian and ive never seen any one topless? Its -30°C like 1/3 the year lol
YouThinkThatsBad
“You can be topless, Canada!” Canada: Mua ha ha little do they know it will be freezing all year long!!
GrampaJack
Try Victoria in the summer. Or Kelowna or Tofino or Hornby/Denman, or Saltspring, etc. Basically move to BC man!
GreatWhiteShirk
Ahh Im in Ontario near Ottawa!
GrampaJack
I found your problem! My friend from Newmarket moved to Victoria and he said it changed his life for the better...
mtreis86
In Vermont you can walk around fully nude in public, just as long as you don't have any clothes in your hands.
NukeItFromOrbitMan
In Vermont you can go fully nude, providing you left the house that way. No public stripping.
DoctorOfTheDitch
Hello Vermont!
NukeItFromOrbitMan
brobinson2001
Kansas, too. We've got a guy who jogs/hikes naked and the cops tell ppl there's nothing they can really do.
WriteStuff
So you can do all of your "normal, everyday activities" completely nude and that's legal so long as you start your errands that way?
NukeItFromOrbitMan
That is my understanding
BavarianGuy
I bet there will be harassment claims when you grab the cheap products from the bottom shelf in the supermarket...
JarJarDrinks
Ditto for most of the US, women just don't use it much.
bf3c
not true, most places it's indecent exposure. new york it's legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure_in_the_United_States
bf3c
not sure where else it's legal, there's various state and local laws. too many to list here for sure.
BavarianGuy
Because the US men aren't lowkey enough about it. You have to make the women make believe its no big deal by pretending to ignoring it.
UltraBooster
Haha yeah like i promise, if you go topless in really any place, you are gunna have a bunch of dudes looking at your tits. /1
UltraBooster
If youre cool with it go for it, but even if it was perfectly legal i would not want my girlfriend to go out with her boobies shown to ever1
BavarianGuy
Why, it's no big deal, all the guys here will totally be cool with it and not even notice ("wink wink" in General Aladeen's voice)
UltraBooster
*youre right*
ConsiderateFlag
it is not illegal to be naked in the UK.
ConsiderateFlag
i'm wearing shorts today, though.
RealNamesAreNotGreatUsernames
What about that guy that got arrested multiple times trying to walk across Britain in the buff?
ConsiderateFlag
yeah, they got him on a breach of the peace charge for apparently being stubborn.
RealNamesAreNotGreatUsernames
If stubbornness is a crime, all of Scotland should be in prison.
BavarianGuy
It's not for lack of trying by the british it isn't so.
Nikolai5
He was released though. Some cops don't know the law in entirety and they probably assumed that you can't as many people do.
AnyGivenDay
Hence the pervert in the background with the camera.
yourmomisminenow
"Nah I'm just a tourist, taking pictures of the...scenery"
bog015
Background or foreground ie photographer
AzgarOgly
And he is shooting something else when there are boobs in front of him. Damn pervert!
mormacil
*American tourist
SteveO
he just collecting images fo' science
swagb98623
They're capturing the topless men
LangdaaTyaagi
The premise of going topless is that it's natural part of the body and there is no shame in displaying it. Why is taking pictures shameful?
UltraBooster
One might argue that clothes are more natural than naked. We dont have fur, cuz we evolved to clothe ourselves
LangdaaTyaagi
The ladies in the picture do not seem to agree with that argument though
UltraBooster
Being naked is definitely freeing and people like to show off their bodies, but i dont think natural is the word we are looking for
LangdaaTyaagi
One person's show-off is other person's photo opportunity... Potatoes potaytoes
LangdaaTyaagi
Also it's illogical to call the guy pervert if you are not calling the naked ladies pervert too. He is feeling liberated to enjoy the view
Germhole
I don't need more reason to want to move to Canada
landofbob
For the 3 days per year in which it is warm/sunny enough for old ladies to get their tatas out?
TheBlackKaiser
You'll need $1000000 to buy a teardown in a shitty neighbourhood in Vancouver. Also there are good boobs and bad boobs. Very few good boobs.
PowertotheCosmicCunt
Vancouver is a very small part of Canada and BC! Much better places to live in BC :)
ZanarkandAbes
And the good boobs are attached to meh faces and eh bodies.
CurlySwede
This is true for any major city in the world, not sure why anyone would think Canada would be different ?
DigYourselfBaby
Well, Winnipeg....
nipsandtips24
This is an extremely inaccurate statement.
macisaac11
Come to Nova Scotia, $250 000 and you've got yourself a very nice home and an ocean no further than 20 minutes away.
NotAnIroningBoard
macisaac11
Well.. the perfect storm was off of Nova Scotia. But I'd say we some pretty good surfing if you don't mind the cold water.
aPokal
Yeah, but nice ocean or angry ocean?
OoWah
Nice. Take it a step further than N.S. and come see PEI. We got all the beaches.
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Hi CA. The European countries NL, FI, SE, NO, DK, BE, ES, FR, HR, BG & RO welcomes you to the list of countries with (personal) Freedom.
Fistouille
BE? I didn't know... While it's legal though it's not commonly applied
raulote
because the atrocious weather you guys have? Nice beer and frietjes, tho
Foodstamp001
Welcome? This is not a new development.
AmArschdieRaeuber
Germany, too. On beaches it's completly legal, in other public places people can complain about it (which doesn't happen)
Zorrodidnothingwrong
Same in Italy
ImgursLibertarian
"(personal)". I hate when Freedom needs a qualifier.
AlilMotivation
DE not? I could have bet.
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AmArschdieRaeuber
Nevermind, topless everywhere and some nude beaches
snizzorky
As long as nobody feels harassed.
BavarianGuy
You can go completely naked into a supermarket and buy some milk if you want, but if someone feels harassed you can be trespassed by ...
BavarianGuy
police for something until recently was called gross nonsense which is technicallya misdemeanor but nobody wants to deal with a naked person
SmolTenk
not everywhere. The fact that its allowed somewhere is actually a soviet invention.
BavarianGuy
It's not forbidden anywhere, only thing is people can claim harassment if it's in unusual places, check the law before claiming "facts"
16745
Depends on the beach.
aPokal
We have them on the city lake.
BavarianGuy
Does not, courts have consistently ruled that near a beach you can't complain about Excitement of public annoyance through naked people.
16745
Nice, could you point me towards one of those rulings? I'm quite interested in the arguments behind it.
BavarianGuy
Personal liberty I guess, I remember one ruling of the highest german court about a naked protest ob bikes, the freedom of protest was
pipicacaboudin
Yeah every time is see Canadians bragging about anything I think wtf man? It's perfectly normal In Europe and no one brags about it
Talligan
No one here is bragging about that. Its been legal for like two decades.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
It's normal that you first compare yourself to your closest neighbour. Canada has only one.
pipicacaboudin
Canada is basically a European country based in NA.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Well, they ARE an associate member of the European Space Agency.
pipicacaboudin
Australia took part at the last Eurovision
Nobodycaresaboutashittyusername
Because the usa is this close minded religious shitfest, and canada compares itself to it.
pipicacaboudin
Yeah but the US are not the fucking world. I don't brag to outrun a legless person or to outsmart a dog
TheWombatStrikesAgain
True, but due to the massive media export they have a bigger cultural impact than anyone else, so sometimes they do seem like the world.
pipicacaboudin
Where you from?
CptCronos
To be fair, it's kind of like living next door to a living trainwreck. You guys are up the road so you get a break from it, here it's 24/7
CptCronos
So when that happens you just start to compare yourself to it whether it's conscious or subconscious.
Blahmeistah
I even saw topless women at a resort in Turkey. That suprised me
PreciousPotato
You barely ever find locals there, though. Germans everywhere! :P
OctaviusClausewitz
resorts = tourists = money = "let them do what they want as long they pay"
FatCat7d3
In Eugene Oregon they can do it to, and do. But I’ve only seen old ladies doing it. Damn you aunt Karen.
MunkyBoi
Stupid sexy aunt Karen.
drunkenpicklejympeer
Only old hippies in Eugene...no thank you
Paperclipfarm
It's a college town here...... Not all old hippies. Their just the ones that burn the image into your brain.
FatCat7d3
If you have a gilf fetish come on down.
LosPer
GreekTrojan
Anyone who has been to "topless" areas know the horrible, horrible truth.
LosPer
All I can think about is the locker room at my gym...on a larger scale. Nope.
EvilKrikkit
In Maine it is legal....but you don't want them to.
JamueLSaxon4thEdition
Same in New York.
sheblindedmewithscience
Is it? I'm about to move there, and I know virtually nothing about it. I'm excited and nervous!
EvilKrikkit
I like to complain about this place, but it isn't bad.
kowala88
I was so pissed when that chick organized the Topless March at UMF, the traffic back up made me late for an exam.
whosagoodboy92
well time to take a vacation to maine, anyone else coming?
hokeyreligions
Stay out of our state! Damn tourists, just send us your money, that's all we want from you.
Gyinagal
That’s that famous Maine hospitality
jeremyj26
You don't know me!
BugEyedLemur
No, really. I lived in Portland when this was made legal. Not as great as you'd expect it to be.
UrsaUrsa
Nipples in line with the navel?
pianoman8t8
As a lifelong Mainer, can confirm.
shuttlecockinakumquat
Maine is the South of the North :(
sheblindedmewithscience
Ha! I'm about to move there, and I'm from the South. Maybe I'll feel at home?
EvilKrikkit
Well, it's legal to marry your first cousin here....
sheblindedmewithscience
Honestly, I'm not sure if it's legal or not in my home state. Probably. Haha.
TheDairyPope
You might think that the cold air would help pull them up, it does not.
Tragopan
Other people in Maine on imgur? Wow! I'm just.. not used to seeing us on the internet.
EvilKrikkit
I know! I always get irrationally excited.
Grilledcheeses
There's not much difference between Maine and Canada.
JabbaTheSwampBandit
What about Ohio and Canada?
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Grilledcheeses
So am I
TheCanadian6197
Yea... you’re almost 100% wrong. Maybe like, 89% wrong.
InnerUniverse
This comment chain could be written into a comic strip.
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
As a Canadian you're in the wrong spot muchacho
drGrafenberg
Perfectly legal here in Sweden too, but then again, no one thought it would not be.
Studsbollen
RIMLIGT ÄNDÅ.
BorkBorkasson
Yep, same in Norway, though it’s not nearly as common these days as when I was a kid. The trend is to wear something for shaping.
Sheldonian
This
SwedishBalls
Never when there's fucking slask around.
BlueYoMind
Seeing as how gang-rapists walk free in Sweden, I'd be surprised if women actually went around topless.
sogget
för jag ser tuttar, tuttar, tuttar överallt. hoppas att det aldrig nånsin mera blir kallt.
ThrobbinHoodz
Those sweet summer lake times
MRdotDUCK
Just to darn cold for it
HadoukenHobbit
English transplant living in Stockholm, summer is GLORIOUS here. Oh, hi to Swedish imgurians too, since it’s super frowned upon in person to
KeeleonOhms
Why is it only illegal in places not covered in snow lol
AzgarOgly
Because it's so cold nobody ever tried? :)
Barbarian90001
Been to Brazil & Sweden, beautiful places, but both have horrible crime, violence, had Swedes stealing & robbing me, the police did nothing.
DavveZ
I see you think Sweden is dangerous, nice seeing a fellow Norwegien here. And why would anyone compare Sweden and Brazil? 1/
DavveZ
Not even on the same continent
Notme68
Legal toplessness?
damogen
You are only supposed to say that in debates on socialism. Or else it is too obvious how wrong it is
Barbarian90001
Just have to be careful that you won't be violently rapped the Swedes are pretty backwards and filthy. Not safe there.
Magicmat
It isnt the Swedes, it is the 'migrants' that are the rapists
Megarith
Gotta love how facts are downvoted.
Magicmat
My family are Swedish, the govt there are SJW feminists who cover up Muslim migrant crimes. It is sickening.
rossimus
People love to be afraid, especially when the bogeymen are brown.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
In Germany, you can run naked through the woods with your dangly bits flopping about. Cities can fine you, but nudity in nature is allowed.
PoppinLochNessHopster
Holy fuck a rational law? That's crazy.
Barbarian90001
Because the rappings? Sweden is a backwards cesspit that enables one of the highest rates of violent sexual crime in the world. No thanks.
DiIdo
One reason for that is maybe because more people report rape. Ever heard of the iceberg principle?
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
Did Breitbart mention that the US has an exceptionally high rate of sexual violence too? More than 16 times as much rape as Canada.
henevas9
Are you on meth? Who told you that bollocks?
TheWombatStrikesAgain
The rappings? No, rap music is perfectly legal in Sweden.
rossimus
I can see you've never been to Baltimore
PreciousPotato
Not really. They only changed the law or whatever, so statistics now show every single instance of rape. And given that most rapists are /1
PreciousPotato
part of the victim's life, like husbands, uncles etc, years of sexual abuse would translate into hundreds and thousands of rapes in the /2
PreciousPotato
statistic, not just one. This is especially relevant regarding immigrants and arranged marriages, if the wife is forced to have sex with /3
PreciousPotato
her husband, even though it's against her will.
bwchronos
My favorite part about living in skelleftea was when spring would start and my super attractive neighbor would lay out in a reindeer skin.
Zukka
Pics or gtfo
drGrafenberg
Schtaan*
BeardedWiseman
Skellefteå is a inbred town tho! ;D
JasonWaterfaIIs
"Purebred"
bwchronos
Well it’s beautiful in the spring at least.
lokitoki81
Lundmarks and Marklunds.... also web between their toes...
drGrafenberg
Why is it always Lundmarks and Marklunds? Ah, the inbreed.
bwchronos
Right in front of her house, at any hour she felt like when the midnight sun was in force.
BoomIgotyourwalletBoomIgotyourphilliestickets
Am I missing a reference?
bwchronos
No, but possibly context. What part didn’t make sense?
DanteLidge
They thought you were referencing a movie/book/show or other form of media instead of recalling actual events in your life
ZeldaFanNr1
Skellefteå*
drGrafenberg
Skeeå.
Snblfrfr
Skellefte*
lokitoki81
Schtaan.... Do you even live here....
bwchronos
Yeah...in the states now. Don’t have much occasion for Ä and Ö either these days.
TheRealEdwardRooney
RIP öäå :(
BoomIgotyourwalletBoomIgotyourphilliestickets
You lost me at in a reindeer skin
magpiegriffin
I think he meant ON a reindeer skin.
thedeepdarkrabbitholeofinternetporn
Seriously thought this was a Swedish euphemism for bush.
bwchronos
Lol no, the suomi Laplander are from around there so it’s a very Swedish thing to have fur from native reindeer that the Suomi still herd.
mobbatbarnmedautomatvapen
*Sami ?
Partytor
Can confirm, I live in Piteå, roughly 1 hour away from Skellefteå and I own a raindeer skin. It sucks ass though, keeps shedding fur 1/2
bwchronos
Skelleftea is like 100 miles from the arctic circle, but it’s so dark most of the year that people sunbathe when it’s out regardless of temp
bwchronos
It = the sun
BoomIgotyourwalletBoomIgotyourphilliestickets
Appreciate the explanation! !
DoktorLurker
Parts of the US too. I didn't see anything fun in Austin but I'm told it's not uncommon.
NUTTDOGG
You will not be hired as part of the Austin tourism board. “Austin-Don’t see anything fun.”
gablestout
Most of the U.S. it's perfectly legal. It's a societal thing, not a legal issue.
iDrinkIsleLays
I saw some topless girls in Barton spring a few times now, but I use to go there a lot until I got fat
DoktorLurker
Go anyway. It's a nice place.
iDrinkIsleLays
I live in round rock now. I'm too lazy to drive there. Now I prolly go there couple times a yr only
Texantioch
Also the crowds are a fucken downer too
iDrinkIsleLays
Yea that's why I decided move a bit away from Austin. It's not what it used to be :(
nmarst308
All of the U.S. There were laws that went into effect I think last year
gablestout
Laws in the U.S. are state-by-state. Most laws address indecent exposure, not simply nudity. Topless sunbathing, ok. Topless barista, not ok
upvotechemistry
Thanks, politicians, for this absurd distinction. They would probably call the latter "sex work"
gablestout
They do. But in Seattle we have an annual nude parade (Solstice Parade). It's not illegal because everybody expects nudity. The laws were1/2
gablestout
meant to prevent an explicit ban, but ended up leaving a grey zone. When is nudity legal, when isn't it? So everyone assumes its illegal.2/2
RanaldMcDanald
It's legal in all of Texas as long as you don't show a reproductive organ.
AnnieGoolahee
I have a lot of photog friends that shoot nudes throughout Austin.
Jkally
In New Orleans we had a topless and bottomless pool but not anymore. Another one just opened up. Bottoms required. Tops are not. Its great!
thatsbadmmkay
South beach Miami
nominaltoactual2
Now your talking..south Is kickass.. expensive but kickass.
WhiteGuy021
https://rootsrated.com/stories/naked-austin
drahgosempire
New York baby. All legal
UncleVenoM
VT you can be nude anywhere in public as long as you don't do the undressing in public.
ijustwantausernamethatisnttaken
NYC it is!
Gauntlet2013
As long as the ladies are not doing what they’re designed for I bet.
HEXADECIMAL
Feeding children is federally protected.
jeremyj26
Weird downvoting.
drinkbeerdamnit
legal in NY since the early 80s
bknob
I remember seeing a (modern) movie about women fighting for the right to go topless in New York. Someone should inform them.
cardboardunderwear
That's right. Topless in NYC is a thing
ZedaZ80
I saw a woman jogging topless and it made my boobs hurt x_x
raleighwar
Long ago, when Austin was cool, you could see topless women at Barton Springs Pool. Same thing at Hippie Hollow pre-80's.
WhiteGuy021
https://rootsrated.com/stories/naked-austin
DoktorLurker
I went to Barton and Hamilton Pool. My friends said she'd seen it plenty of times but we didn't when I was there.
Texantioch
Hippie Hollow still a nude "beach" (its just a lot of fucken rocks)
annibe11e
I've never been to Hippie Hollow because my dad used to go there and get naked. I was afraid I might see him.
roksturdybeeburp
You can still see women do it on the west side of the pool. It’s not really not normal still.
missal
It's definitely not uncommon still. Source: the trail is on my route to zilker park.
thiscommentwillselfdestruct
As someone from NH who vacations in Austin, Austin is still cool.
Texantioch
Great to visit for sure.
BoomIgotyourwalletBoomIgotyourphilliestickets
Nice rhyme
MagmaShake
As a Texan can confirm hippie hollow still nudie boody
labyrinthconvention
nudie boody booty buddy?
originalone
Hippie Hollow was mostly older gay dudes when I went last summer. Saw two other women besides my gf. Still fun and sexy :)
GrumpierOldMan
I lived about two miles from Hippie Hollow 5 years ago. I saw boobs. And a ball or two.
labyrinthconvention
I hope the number of balls seen was divisible by two.
raleighwar
I stopped going to HH after the number of guys waving dicks at me from the bushes outnumbered the number of naked woman boobs.
charliethewizard
This makes me wonder if he was wearing an off the hip number that only allowed for one to hang out.
Troliosis
I finally saw some unicorn (perfect) tits at Barton Springs last Summer. Only had to live here since 93.
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