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posted by martyb on Saturday September 21 2019, @01:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the freeze-peach dept.

https://kdvr.com/2019/09/05/fort-collins-agrees-to-remove-topless-ban-from-public-code/

Colorado city officials have removed a topless ban from city law that inspired a Free the Nipple lawsuit.

The Coloradoan reported that Fort Collins City Council agreed Tuesday to remove language in the public nudity code that barred women and girls over age 10 from exposing their breasts in public.

City officials say the ban is expected to be removed Sept. 17.

Officials say a district court judge and a federal appeals court have ruled against the policy in the past two years.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @06:26AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @06:26AM (#896735)

    I'm not from US culture. Would putting a young girl in a topless bathing suit constitute a sex crime, or is it just not culturally acceptable?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:14AM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:14AM (#896779) Homepage Journal

    Until they start getting to boobs age, most folks and laws don't care. Culturally, most parents tend to start buying them boob-covering swimsuits as soon as they start buying them swimsuits but they don't get bent out of shape too badly if they randomly run around in their underwear until about ten or so.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:53PM (#896791)

      Thanks!

  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Saturday September 21 2019, @03:07PM

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday September 21 2019, @03:07PM (#896820) Journal

    It may not be technically a crime, but the police can investigate and take your children away for a long time until things are sorted out in court. That can take many, many months. Also, once your name is smeared with even a hint of a sex scandal against kids, your life will be ruined.

    So, it's simply not culturally acceptable in the worst possible way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @05:32PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @05:32PM (#896854)

    I'm not from US culture. Would putting a young girl in a topless bathing suit constitute a sex crime, or is it just not culturally acceptable?

    Things have changed significantly over the years. When I was a child, no one cared if a child was topless.

    In the early 1990s I was visiting my brother and took photos of him, his wife and their two young (4 and 2 years old or so at the time).

    I didn't notice it (which says a lot about attitudes back then), but the younger one wasn't wearing his diaper. This is before cell phone cameras, so I took the roll of film to be developed and printed.

    When I got my prints, I was looking through them with my brother and his wife and we noticed that the younger one wasn't wearing pants. We laughed. "Look! isn't wearing pants! Ha Ha!" I still have the prints from that roll of film somewhere.

    These days, I would likely be arrested for that. It's stupidity. That's a good word for US culture. The way we do things in the US is as follows: If there's an issue, look at all the angles, consider all the alternatives, then pick the one with the worst outcomes.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @06:32PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @06:32PM (#896869)

      that's because our "justice system" is predatory glorified slave catchers and most "Americans" are brain washed. bootlicking, wanna-be authoritarian, whores.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @07:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @07:03PM (#896885)

        Don't hold back, friend. Tell us how you really feel.