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Why are women’s nipples considered unacceptable anyway? It seems really sexist in my opinion to say that male nipples are acceptable but female ones aren’t

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Because most women choose to keep tops on and most cultures find them sexual. You can go topless in 95% of places in the West that allow shirts off. Women choose to keep the tops on.

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In most of those places, there are laws against feminine presenting people from being topless. They don’t “just choose” to have a top on.

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Absolutely not. You can pretty much go wherever you want in public topless in the US.

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You answered your own question there - sexism and patriarchy, which need women as objects and property, not individuals worthy of individual freedoms.

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It’s just because of sexualixation and prude people pressuring the fuck out of those platforms. Although a bit unnecessary imho I don’t mind seeing a tiddy on insta, they’ll have to add a nsfw tag tho. Insta is prob going to decline into even more onlyfans advertisements

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So you want NSFW tags for all nipples?

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Because muricans.

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In a decent number of countries, they are pretty relaxed. You go there, you see nipple (or dick) for 5 seconds, it’s notable, then it fades into the background. People are just anal-retentive about it because of religion and family culture.

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And if you think about it, family culture comes from religion

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Some people enjoy being anal-retention to dicks, I am unsure about the logistics of doing that with a nipple

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It wasn’t actually the nipple, it was the breast.

But as it’s a gradual transition and cleavage, side-boob, underboob, straps and pasties have become normalized, the nipple is the only part left to define as the subject of the “issue”, as it’s the most distinguishable, visually separate and definable part.

The conservative prudes would prefer a more comprehensive ban, but struggle immensely in legally defining the line of “okay/not okay” in a court of law. They find it much easier to enforce certain clothes as legally obligatory for women, but there’s very little support for that kind of oppression in most parts of the world.

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How can we be sure … what if we all use it and later discover we have been banned since this nipple comes from a wonderful wemen uhh …

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That would just mean we weren’t gay

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It’s more likely than you think

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We had a high school assistant principal who made the men’s swim team cover their nipples in yearbook photographs.

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So they put on bikini tops for the photos?

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They put their hands over their nipples but I like your idea better.

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No, they just tastefully covered their nipples with the tips of their index fingers

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