At the more popular pools, velvet ropes rein in lines of eager partygoers willing to pay cover charges of up to $50 on busy weekends. Women of all ages and body types saunter in sporting full makeup and stylish bikinis -- except, of course, at pools that allow "European-style sunbathing" (the current Vegas buzzword that simply means "topless"). Groups of men, from twentysomething grad students to fortysomething businessmen, congregate in infinity pools, clutching expensive cocktails and vainly attempting to keep their eyes off the nearest exposed female torso.Tags: nudism, naturism, nudist, nudists, naturist, naturists, nudity, nudes, bare, au naturel, nude, naked
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Vegas Topless Pools Harmful to Topfreedom
The topless pools in Las Vegas are nothing more than a real-life "Girls Gone Wild" videos, sexualizing women's breasts and making it harder for topfree advocates to make convincing arguments for public equality.
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I disagree. Big distinction between TOPLESSNESS and TOPFREEDOM needed. Topfreedom is more about being able to have our upper bodies exposed, regardless of gender, so as not to be construed as indecent or obscene. Particularly such as it places a person's comfort at a higher priority than a particular dress code for the public eye.
These Las Vegas topless pools are really more like a big party that one has to pay to enter. It's just a big boob and flirt fest for money and drinking, not a top-free manner of living by inclined individuals. Topfreedom is really more like seeing a woman working in her front yard with no shirt, just as a man might be.
I'd go ahead and wager these adults-only parties are not of much interest to topfreedom activists, who are generally not entangled with sex-charged body-contest scenarios such as these venues.
Jonathan, the continued sexualization of the female breast only makes it more difficult for women to achieve topfree equality. How is the general public supposed to accept topfree women as being not indecent or obscene when exploitation is booming? Topless casinos are next, just watch.
I can definitely appreciate that, and the casinos would definitely cross the line if they didn't charge for and restrict admission like the pools do.
As a passive nudism and topfreedom advocate, I would never enter or suggest entering such an establishment (plus I already live near vegas :). I believe that behind a cover charge is not an 'unthemed' public place (which I tend to associate with topfreedom motives), and so no line is crossed, and I believe it's not our philosophy of topfreedom that they're assimilating.
I guess what I mean to say is that it's simple sexual commercialism, which I don't think gives topfreedom a bad name any more than NASCAR gives Subaru a bad name.
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