if only they all could be california girls  

I wonder why the gov't is pumping money, effort and time into something like that. It's like promoting the use of the color blue in plastic duck-shaped products...

really lets not pretend topless women on beaches are going to have this amazing erotic effect and turn women into sex objects ( at least more than they are now ) for the most part its just going to mean seeing old women topless on the beach resulting in alot less men going to the beach.

If you did that it wouldn't be exciting.

I'm pretty sure it's not illegal in Denmark (I've seen it and no one seemed bothered by it) and I haven't heard one single incident of "b00bs cause trafic chaos"

Some women choose to "flash" their breasts other do not I'm pretty convinced that's all there is to it.

I think having a law against it is limiting freedom too much, but that might just be me...

Reading you guy's responses you neglect to mention the fact of the actions of this bill on how it effects the kids of this generation. I mean little kids seeing topless/naked adults on the beaches? Leave that for porn shops so only ADULTS can see the content. I wouldn't want my kids girl or boy to see topless/naked people on a beach. I mean what does that teach them? It teaches them its okay to do shit like that.  I mean why bother being naked/topless in the first place? If your so desperate then strip down inside your house and streak 24hr........or jump in the shower. But by god people what does striping in public show about our society? Not only is it lude but it degrades our society even lower than it already is. Why is that? Well not to get on a relgious subject, but in my opinion, the begining of the bible in Genesis when Adam and Eve eat the fruit and are knowledgeable of being naked they immeditately try to dress with something. Even if you're not religious isn't that message good enough to show some meaning as to how we should act?

Wierd bill.  On one hand, you'd have teenage boys with horribly constraining bathing suits, on the other hand, many women could work on their "tan line."  The only safety concern I would have is that shit bites you in the ocean (namely sea lice,) and you'd be an easier target.

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Humor aside, I thought about other implications of the bill...

To be honest, I can only see the bill attracting more tourism to California.  The downside to that would be what kind of tourists are you attracing?  I don't agree with the statistics, but it's been proven that strip clubs attract a criminal element, especially in sub-urban areas.  Personally, I have seen no evidence of this myself, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

One of the Florida keys, Key West, actually does allow nudity to extent.  While vacationing there, I remember seeing several hotels which encouraged swimming topless (including the one I stayed at,) and I think there are a few nudist colonies there as well.  I can't remember whether or not the public beaches allowed it though.  I do remember my family and I having to pay to enter a beach so maybe they do.  *Shrugs*  The point I'm getting at is that I didn't see a single female topless or naked while I was there, so I honestly don't think the bill would sway many women to go prancing about topless if it did pass.

There is nothing wrong with nudity in my mind.  Hell, if everybody were naked, I'd feel much better about my own body, but then again, I'd hate walking barefoot everywhere or having no clothes to keep me warm on very cold days and nights.   Morality and deceny issues aside, there are good reasons to keep your pants on.  Besides, I'm not too sure how comfortable  women would be around me while I'm noticably aroused by their beauty.  ~

Now where were we before this thread was taken over?  Oh yes, topless people in California.  Please resume the initial discussion.  

Again, it's not so much censorship as it is public opinion. I don't mind seeing nekkid boobies, but there are plenty of nekkid boobies I dun wanna see. *shudder* I, of course, live in wisconsin.

So the question isn't "should boobies be free" but "should free boobies be seen in public."

Which boils down to what a given culture thinks is acceptible in public.

This is even more an issue than the bit about public TV.

"If you don't like it, change the channel." Doesn't work in real life.
If I look outside and see something that offends me, am I supposed to ignore it? I think not.

If I were in cali, and a beautiful woman walked by without a top on; I'd be relatively unaffected. "woah, hey, hot chick with a nice rack." Appreciate, and move on to whatever I'm doing. This, of course, would be spoiled by the cat-calling asshats that think they're at a strip joint all of a sudden. Say hello to 90% of the male college crowd. It's not the boobies that I find offensive, it's the drooling morons that will result from it.