Summer is coming. I am seeing more and more of this Free The Nipple nonsense in articles and on Facebook.
I don't know what to make of it. Part of me feels that it's very trivial, and that there are far more important feminist issues globally, that need attention, rather than a campaign like this?
But then again, equality and all that, "Men can do something we can't!". We can take off our tops and reveal our chest/nipples where as women 'can't'.
The more and more I think about it, the more I believe that women should be able to take off their tops without 'the stigma attached'. Having said that, female breasts should not be desexualised and reduced to 'just a bit of flesh'. They, if anything, should be celebrated. The female form is incredibly beautiful, exceptionally sexy and just pure art. Breasts are attractive. Men will look. Women will look. Female breasts are not the same as mens, even biologically. (They may have been at birth, but I meant post-puberty females).
A woman can be made to reach orgasm through her breasts. They serve a sexual purpose. (The same could be said for men, but this is far less common)
I do believe the female form should be celebrated in a way that empowers women of all shapes and sizes. But I think that desexualisation is almost just as bad as oversexualisation.