Council members uneasy about lifting topless ban on women

Jersey Journal ^ | May 22, 2018

[SMGFan]

JERSEY CITY — An attempt to rewrite the city's 1980s-era obscenity law received a somewhat chilly reception by members of the City Council at its Monday caucus, with council members expressing specific concern over the plan to lift the ban on women appearing topless in public.

The measure, which deals specifically with sex toys, female breasts and body parts in intimate areas, led to an unusually uncomfortable and occasionally giggly conversation among council members. Ward D Councilman Michael Yun was unwilling to utter the word "breasts," referencing them as "those things" instead.

[SMGFan]

Well, a lot of new Jersey city residents lived in NYC or wanted to. Topless is legal there.

[Celerity]

New Jersey is run by 12 year olds. Whoda thought?

N.Y. residents should just make it a parking lot for the city.

[Beowulf9]

I mean it’s not like there are liberals in New Jersey who would go crazy with demonstrations using this.

[moovova]

It’s a cover-up.

[rbg81]

Even if its legal, any woman who walks around topless needs her head examined. She is taking herself a target. Should it be that way? In an ideal world: No. But we like in a practical, not an ideal world.

[broken_arrow1]

I need to keep abreast of this story.

[rktman]

To screams of: “Put it on! Put it on!”

[rktman]

As long as all of them make the cheer squad. 👹

[DoodleBob]

Jersey City is ethnically diverse and about 9:1 Dem/Repub. That the City Council hasn't caved in to modern "tolerance" while their bretheren are saying that calling MS-13 "animals" is "racist", is truly bizzaro-world. Maybe the Union isn't totally lost.

[M Kehoe]

I say go for it.

Haven’t been to Atlantic city in 10 years.

5.56mm

[Boomer]

occasionally giggly conversation

occasionally jiggly conversation...

There. Fixed.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The council should not only lift the ban on toplessness, they should separate it from their other duties.

[NorthMountain]

The women who want to run around topless are rarely the women you want to see running around topless.

[OKSooner]

Those things are weapons.

[Libloather]

I’m just here for the pics. Where are they?

[minnesota_bound]

The women who do are not the women you want to see naked.

[dfwgator]

The people who want to go topless are the people you do NOT want to see go topless.

[M Kehoe]

You’re probably correct.

I’ll also do some gambling.

The First lady would get suspicious if a spent too much time on the beach.

5.56mm

[SMGFan]

Only Jersey City.

[moovova]

Just stands to reason...if they’re giggling, they’re jiggling.