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Published: 18:46 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 20:41 BST, 19 August 2020
The year 2020 has given rise to some truly unexpected trends: Zoom happy hours. Fashionable face masks. And now, topless hiking.
Well, not strictly hiking, but certainly posing for topless photos at the top of mountain summits, an 'empowering' craze that's been growing in several places across the country, including Colorado, where toplessness in public is legal.
The Denver Post reports that more and more women climbing the Rockies have taken to celebrating their athletic feats by casting aside their T-shirts and sports bras and posing for topless pictures while overlooking scenic vistas, their bare backs facing the camera out in the open where any other hiker could walk by.
Enjoying the view: More and more women are posing topless while hiking in a growing trend
Making mammaries! In some places, like Colorado — a popular place for topless hiking — it is legal for women to be shirtless in public
Bosom buddies: In Colorado alone, the trend has been taken to Flatiron One Summit, the Indian Peaks Wilderness, and the James Peak Wilderness
The hills are alive! Beyond Colorado, hikers have done it in Oregon, New York, Georgia, Utah, Alaska, Washington, Nevada, California, and even Canada
A quick Instagram search yields dozens of photos of women similarly posed on mountaintops. They face away from the camera, their bare backs exposed above leggings and sneakers. In front of them are gorgeous views.
In Colorado alone, the trend has been taken to Flatiron One Summit, the Indian Peaks Wilderness, and the James Peak Wilderness.
Beyond Colorado, hikers have done it in Oregon, New York, Georgia, Utah, Alaska, Washington, Nevada, California, and even Canada.
Some do it solo, others in groups, and weather doesn't appear to factor in, with a few going topless for photos as they're surrounded by snow.
'It feels fun, exciting, and maybe a little risky to be naked in nature,' Kari Armstrong, a co-organizer of a women's hiking club called The Boulder Hiker Chicks, told the Denver Post. 'When you have worked hard for your hike, or even if you haven’t, it is fun to do something a little silly and liberating to celebrate.'
'I think it’s just one more way for women to unapologetically claim their space on the trails and in nature,' added Alli Fronzaglia, the club's co-organizer.
'So many of us, as women, spend our lives trying to do the right thing, trying to look a certain way, trying not to offend, trying to just be acceptable to society. Being in nature reminds us that, like the wildflowers and the trees, we’re perfect just as we are.'
Flashing Mother Nature! Some do it solo, others in groups, and weather doesn't appear to factor in, with a few going topless for photos as they're surrounded by snow
Mountains of modesty! A co-organizer for a women's hiking club said 'it feels fun, exciting, and maybe a little risky to be naked in nature' (not pictured)
'I think it’s just one more way for women to unapologetically claim their space on the trails and in nature,' added another women's hiking club organizer (not pictured)
Brrr! A group of women poses topless on a snowy mountain in Colorado
Born free! Another photos shows a group of women cooling off — sans some of their clothes — after getting to the top of a peak
The Boulder Hiker Chicks Instagram page has plenty of photos of groups of female hikers posing topless — all taken from behind — which have been posted over the years. In a few, the women even go fully nude.
But Armstrong and Fronzaglia admit it wasn't their idea: They were inspired by another hiking group's social media account, which posted similar photos in 2015.
The trend has spread to other groups and individuals too.
Some do it just for the fun of it, to be silly or wild. One woman who posed topless on a hike in San Diego wrote on Instagram: 'Take the road less traveled & be carefree! Let the girls be free.'
'It was just so hot the girls needed some air,' quipped another, who posed topless in Joshua Tree National Park.
But others have more emotional reasons, liking having recovered from a serious illness, or left a bad relationship, overcome body issues.
'Before you judge me for this picture please read,' one woman captioned her own topless hiking picture. 'It took my husband almost four years to fix the damage another man caused. Almost four years to make me comfortable with myself again.
Freedom! Some do it just for the fun of it, to be silly or wild, while others do it to feel empowered after overcoming illness, bad relationships, and body image issues
'It was just so hot the girls needed some air,' quipped one woman (not pictured) of her topless picture
Perky and proud! Several women have explained that going topless this way is about feeling good after a failed relationship
Better act fast! Since there is nothing stopping other hikers from coming upon their photoshoots, the women may not want to dawdle
'It’s freeing and exhilarating,' said one woman who tried it (not pictured). 'Men are out there hiking with their shirts off all the time'
'Almost four years to get me to believe that I am strong. That I am beautiful. Almost four years to fix a six month mistake.'
Kelli Schulte, 36, also tried the trend on Torreys Peak after getting out of a relationship.
'This was a big, important moment for me,' she told the Denver Post. 'With every step, I felt empowered. Like I was taking control of my life. Like I could and would be me again. I looked at my friend and said, "I’m taking one of those topless pics and I’m never giving up the things I love again." Then I snapped a couple of pics and I absolutely love them.'
A few have even been persuaded to give it a try despite assuming they weren't the type to do it, like Coral Scherma, 58.
Scherma figured she would never pose topless, until she was hiking Kenosha Pass with her daughter-in-law, Donalyn White, 28. At first, they discussed the possibility of doing it jokingly — but when it was clear they were both interested, they did it together.
'It’s freeing and exhilarating,' White said. 'Men are out there hiking with their shirts off all the time.'
Scherma said the photo they took together was her 'favorite by far,' saying it shows 'two strong, intelligent, fierce women standing on the edge of the world.'
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July 10, 2019 / 5:14 PM
/ CBS Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- The beaches of Duluth are known for their serenity, but what unfolded in the sand last week is causing quite the stir. A Duluth woman's sunbathing habits are sparking statewide conversation on how nudity should be defined.
Michelle Bennett was topless when an officer asked her to put her top back on, but what happened next was complicated.
"A woman approached me after about 20 minutes of laying in the sun, asking me to put a top on, saying I was making her children uncomfortable," Bennett said.
Bennett says she regularly sunbathes without a top on at local Duluth beaches. But last week a woman who was uncomfortable and a police officer tried to put a stop to it.
"He heard that someone has been refusing to put a top on and that it wasn't a nude beach," Bennett said. "I pointed out to him that I wasn't nude, I was topless."
The two had a long discussion before Bennett agreed to put her top back on.
"They really couldn't establish if I was breaking a law because of that ambiguous language," she said.
The state statute on indecent exposure states it's when someone willfully and lewdly exposes the person's body, or the private parts thereof. That's a statute that's up for interpretation and not always enforced.
"If there's people that are around that are feeling uncomfortable with behavior that's attached to a law stating that that behavior isn't legal, then that's a point to step in," Ingrid Hornibrook, with the Duluth Police Department, said.
It's also a situation that has people divided.
"In an area like Duluth, where that's not common, are you doing it because you're trying to bring attention to yourself?" one Duluth beach-goer said.
Bennett said if men's breasts are fair game to be exposed in public, women's should be too, but it's not legally clear as to what's decent and what's not . Depending on where you live, counties, cities, and parks can have their own ordinances on how nudity is defined. But as WCCO found, those can be vaguely worded as well.
There is a clear exception to state law though: breastfeeding is always allowed.

First published on July 10, 2019 / 5:14 PM

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By Olivia Fleming Published: May 16, 2016
"It has become embedded into our psyche that boobs = sex, when really, boobs = human." — Elizabeth Siematkowski, co-founder of Topless Blading
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Free the Nipple advocates say it's about equal rights. Opponents say it shows "reckless disregard" for children. So who is right?
As part of Bazaar.com's week-long issue discussing all things nude , we investigate if women should have the right to go topless in public.
In1934 it was still illegal for men to show their nipples in public. This led to a mass arrest of topless men in New Jersey and a handful of $1 fines given to those who dared to bare their chests on Coney Island, until finally, in 1936, the guardians of national decency relented, giving men the right to go topless in public. Eighty years later, the sight of a topless man has gone from being regarded as lewd and obscene to "utterly ordinary"—something that Alethea Andrews, founder of New York's Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society , hopes women will, one day, experience for themselves.
"We're used to seeing men's bare chests in public, but a century ago that was roughly as scandalous as a woman's bare chest today," Andrews explains. "At some point, men insisted on their right to bare their chests, and over the course of a generation, it has become the new normal. Hopefully the same will happen for women. It will just take time."
In New York, along with Hawaii, California, Maine, Ohio, and Texas, it is legal for a woman to be topless anywhere a man is allowed to do the same. However, women continue to be harassed by police for "public indecency" or "disorderly conduct" if they are spotted with their tops off and refuse to cover up. Meanwhile in Indiana, Utah and Tennessee, there is a complete ban on exposed female chests at any time; and in states like New Jersey, a topless woman may be arrested for "lewd" behavior or "endangering the welfare" of minors.
Last year, four male New Hampshire state representatives proposed a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for women to show their nipples in public with "reckless disregard" for others. Though the controversial bill, which stated that women could not "purposely expose the areola or nipple of her breast or breasts in a public place," was vetoed 18-0 in March, state representative Brian Gallagher continues to defend the bill, saying it was introduced because conservative mothers were concerned about "how that behavior would impact their children."
"The concern was that our values in society are being challenged from so many different areas, and these moms and grandmas who were trying to enjoy a public space—their liberty to enjoy it—was being challenged," Gallagher says. "We as individuals, men and women, we are different. We are biologically different people. In our society today, we should still try to keep some of the traditional values and norms that many of us older folks have become accustomed to. We have kids and grandkids, and they are impressionable. If women can be topless on a beach, then you have to take into account places like public schools. There are many concerned people here that don't want [exposed breasts] in front of their children."
Lina Esco, the founder of Free the Nipple , doesn't buy into this line of reasoning. "What is the first thing a child connects with and depends on when they are born? The nipple," she says. "At what point does it become obscene? We're living in a culture that makes money off sexualizing women, sexualizing a part of the body that is there to nourish children. Men telling us we need to cover up, that we're indecent? It's hypocrisy."
According to Dr. Mandi Silverman , a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, it is a parent's reaction to seeing a topless woman that leaves the largest impression on children: not the act of seeing a bare chest itself. In fact, the Manhattan-based psychologist says that seeing breasts in public can be positive for a child's development, if discussed openly. "There are two conversations to have when it comes to nudity. First, you want to talk to your kids about your family values and expectations. Second, you want to address what they might see out in the world that [may not be] in line with your family values and expectations," she says. "Parents should have an open dialogue with their children. From a young age, you want to make your children aware that they can come to you with questions and that you'll do your best to answer them." Paul Abramson, a psychology professor at UCLA who co-authored an 18-year study which tracked early childhood exposure to parental nudity, actually found beneficial outcomes such as increased self-esteem and sexual knowledge. And for young girls specifically, being exposed to different body types in the form of bare breasts can "help them grow up to be body positive," adds Dr. Silverman.
"Really, the bottom line is that it's become embedded into our psyche that boobs equal sex, when really, boobs equal human," says Elizabeth Siematkowski, co-founder of Topless Blading , a social movement which aims to "inspire people to do what they love regardless of social stigma and to express themselves regardless of gender." Siematkowski, who lives in Buffalo, New York, adds that the "over-sexualization of the female body" in America "needs to change." Esco agrees, arguing that a topless woman should no longer be classified as "nude," and that labelling her as such is part of the problem. "If a man is topless, that is not considered nudity. Likewise, a woman being topless should not be considered nudity. When a woman is showing her vagina, and a man his penis, that's nudity. Conflating the term nudity with toplessness, and therefore toplessness with a sexual act, is part of the problem."
Indeed, in its official community guidelines, Instagram defines nudity as "photos of female nipples," along with digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and "close-ups" of fully-nude buttocks. "Photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed," it specifies. Meanwhile Apple, which is often blamed for the censorship of topless women on social media apps, simply states that "apps containing pornographic material, defined by Webster's Dictionary as 'explicit descriptions or displays of sexual organs or activities intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings', will be rejected."
Andrews, who first started the Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society six years ago, believes it is important that people stop seeing women's bodies as "inherently" sexual. "A man lying shirtless in the grass or strolling through Central Park might have an 'attractive body,' but his exposing it isn't seen as a sexual act—nor is it justification for ogling, catcalling and worse. But if a woman even goes out in something tight or low-cut—never mind with nothing on at all above the waist—it's seen as sexual, even immoral. Women shouldn't have to choose between being covered and being sexual," Andrews says, likening this to body shaming of the worst kind: "What a terrible lesson it imparts to young women when they're told their brothers can run around in the sun with their chest exposed, but their own chests and nipples have to be hidden because men might see them? How could a girl possibly come away thinking anything other than that her body is shameful or dangerous—or in some way, 'wr
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