Nicole Kidman
Springfield Missouri fears nipple, bans most swimwear
US town responds to Free the Nipple campaign by making nudity laws even tighter
A small town in the US has responded to a women’s nudity equality campaign by tightening the law yet further to ban “sideboob” and “underboob” – whilst removing a clause about having erection in public.
Up until only 79 years ago, it was illegal for men to show their nipples in public, even at the beach. As ridiculous as that sounds to us, much of the world thinks the same of forcing ladies to cover up at the beach, now. The right to bare the male nipple started the same way the modern “Free the Nipple” movement is going, with open display of nipples.
US city cracks down on Free the Nipple campaigners by even banning sideboob and underboob in public – yet ALLOWS men to show covered erections in public
- Town leaders in Springfield, Missouri, cracked down on demonstrators
- Attempting to prevent ‘SlutWalk’ protests, they strengthened nudity laws
- City residents are now banned from showing ‘sideboob’ or ‘underboob’
- City chiefs claimed the new laws are designed to prevent ‘affront or alarm’
- But they also removed an old law prohibiting covered erections in public
The Springfield, Missouri city council decided to meet the movement with an equal but opposite reaction. They voted 5-4 to enact more strict public decency regulations. According to the Springfield News-Leader, “women are now required to cover a greater percentage of their breasts in public, and both sexes must cover 100 percent of their buttocks.”
Pussy okay, Titties … NO
Rachel Weisz

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Grace Sparapani, a contributor at Vice, neatly summed up the problem with City reactions such as this rather nicely.
Decisions like this aren’t just laughably retrograde—they do active damage to young activists working in places where the political odds are against them. Even forgetting the victim-blaming mentality that is clearly present in Burnett’s mission to “protect women and minors from exploitation” through regulating their bodies and limiting their own decisions, there is the added “activist-blaming,” implying that the organizers of the rallies brought the ordinance on themselves by holding a rally in the first place. The “she was asking for it” mentality is being applied twofold.
Kate Moss

I highly recommend reading her entire piece on the subject to get the perspective of a woman who is from Springfield.
Miranda Cosgrove

