Battle over bare-breasted women brews at one of Maryland’s busiest beaches

Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2017 | Lynh Bui and Ann E. Marimow

[C19fan]

A battle over bare-breasted women at one of Maryland’s most popular vacation spots is heating up as summer hits without a clear answer on whether women are free to be free at the beach.

With the heat approaching, authorities in Ocean City issued a memo this week directing the beach patrol not to confront bare-chested women or ask them to cover up regardless of complaints. The policy is to stand until the Maryland Attorney General’s Office opines on state indecent exposure laws after a local beachgoer declared that if men can go sans tops, then women can, too.

[Bratch]

I predict this initiative will be a bust.

[Eepsy]

They really need to nip this in the bud....

[publius911]

Battle over bare-breasted women brews at one of Maryland’s busiest beaches

How?
Are they refusing to cooperate?

[golux]

always cringeworthy in reality...

I think naked women are beautiful in general and cringe when other men take it upon themselves to "yay or nay," "guilty or not-guilty" people who just want to have fun at the beach.

[Morgana]

That song would be better if Benny Hill sang it

[InterceptPoint]

"Frightened” by naked bodies? More likely the objectors don’t want to be aroused by a few and repulsed by the many'

Hmmmm. Frankly the aroused part doesn't sound frightening to me. And, come to think about it I don't get the repulsed part either. Wouldn't happen to me. I'm not one to demand perfection. But maybe my Flower Child infection hasn't completely dissipated.😎

[Palio di Siena]

With apologies to Henny Youngman:
I went to the doctor
He told me to take off my clothes and stand by the window
I asked what he thought was wrong with me
He said “nothing - I don’t like my neighbor”.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I personally would not take my kids to a beach where the females are hanging out and the males are hardening up.

[InterceptPoint]

The guy thing would be a put off me as well. As for the ladies ...

[Bob434]

[[”A girl in the Pacific islands wearing hardly any clothes and a Victorian lady completely covered in clothes might both be equally `modest,’ proper, or decent, according to the standards of their own societies: and both, for all we could tell by their dress, might be equally chaste (or equally unchaste).” ]]

Yup Polynesian islands where SSD’s run rampant- Gauguin found this out the hard way- and who’s to say rape and molestations weren’t greater in those societies? In Africa- rape is a very common thing- and aids and SSD’s are prevalent- This isn’t to say they wouldn’t be with more modest dress- however- there is the possibility that immodest dress contributes to the degradation of society

I’ll stick with my feeling that modest dress and morality laws help not hurt society- Adam and Eve covered up for a reason when their eye’s were ‘opened’

[MrEdd]

Or if Scott Bradlee made a jazz arrangement of it for Postmodern Jukebox.

Still, Stan Boreson was one of the early television pioneers and he was still around and making guest appearances on The Lawrence Welk Show when I was a kid.

[Morgana]

Don’t remember him, do remember The Lawrence Welk Show coming on as a child. Only the bubble machine though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmu1Kf-mjc4

[little jeremiah]

Because of human decency standards. Just because animals are naked and don’t care doesn’t mean humans should do the same.

It’s not “frightened”, btw.

[gundog]

You did see the Baltimore part....?

[Fightin Whitey]

Ha I live in a cowboy town in the Rocky Mountains...I dunno nuffin about Baltimore but I think I get the ugly scary picture!

[Vision]

The policy is to stand until the Maryland Attorney General’s Office opines on state indecent exposure laws after a local beachgoer declared that if men can go sans tops, then women can, too.

Doesn't take much to expose the idiocy of Marylanders (spoken as a native.) Let's hope nobody complains male and female bathrooms are discrimination because those in power don't have enough intellect or character to answer the question.

[Rome2000]

South Beach is an exception to that rule

[dsrtsage]

Well, I guess I will start having fun at the beach in a thong speedo. I’m sure nobody will judge or cringe about that.

[Rebelbase]

A busy, busty beach is best.

[Rebelbase]

Lifeguards should issue tassels for the offenders.