Arguments against public toplessness

[Electricaleng]

All you uptight people are exactly why breasts are oversexualized in america. Some of you are supposed to be prolife but are saying women should be more descrite about breastfeeding. I even saw some saying that the mothers should keep their babies home out of sight. The more I read on this site the more turned off I get about this whole catholic thing. I sure hope most catholics aren’t like all of you. I have been attending a catholic church for about a year now and havent once ran into any of these issues except out of one book. And when asked about it was told to examine my concience which I did and came to the conclusion that not all teachings are right.

My wife goes topless whenever we are in aruba. No one cares or pays attention As it is common there. (Lots of dutch there) It is not a problem one bit prob ebly because we are not surrounded by a bunch of people with no self control like all of you seem to be. How hard is it really to see a female breast and not lose control. Half the population has them. This whole forum seems like the most judgemental group of people I have seen online.

 

[Midwest88]

All you uptight people are exactly why breasts are oversexualized in america.

So we shouldn’t be uptight and everything with honky dory and let’s join in alliance with Aruba?

Or maybe the breasts are oversexualized because the media treats a woman’s body like meat?

Maybe trivializing breasts is a sign of a lack of decency? Just throwing that thought out there.

Some of you are supposed to be prolife but are saying women should be more descrite about breastfeeding. I even saw some saying that the mothers should keep their babies home out of sight.

Pro-life as in no ABC (artificial birth control) and no abortions. Pro-life and not wanting to see topless women in public is in no way contradictory to being for life when sex occurs

The more I read on this site the more turned off I get about this whole catholic thing.

And you’re an engineer? Could’ve fooled me.

I sure hope most catholics aren’t like all of you. I have been attending a catholic church for about a year now and havent once ran into any of these issues except out of one book. And when asked about it was told to examine my concience which I did and came to the conclusion that not all teachings are right.

That’s all fine. Where’s your rebuttal to the teachings you disagree with?

My wife goes topless whenever we are in aruba. No one cares or pays attention As it is common there. (Lots of dutch there) It is not a problem one bit prob ebly** because we are not surrounded by a bunch of people with no self control like all of you seem to be.**

Straight out fallacy when you mention Aruba.

bold: That’s quite the accusation. A good majority of the posts here are about modesty and how that fits in with Catholicism and the modern world.

How hard is it really to see a female breast and not lose control. Half the population has them. This whole forum seems like the most judgemental group of people I have seen online.

Who’s losing control? It seems like you’re losing control because - oh my goodness - people have a critical view of public toplessness. Then you play the “judgmental” card.

 

[Zoltan_Cobalt]

Nothing wrong with public toplessness…

There are circumstances in which nudity is not impure. If someone uses it to treat the person as an object of pleasure - even if it is by bad thoughts - he alone is the one who commits an impure act.** Impurity of body only occurs when nuditity plays a negative role with respect to the value of the person.** One can say that what happens then is a de-personalization … Pope John Paul II

 

[Tomdstone]

First it would be a mortal sin for the women, and it would be a grave public scandal. …
One wonders if people haven’t gone completely insane:shrug: .

Linus2nd

Wasn’t there a papal Mass where the female lector was topless? I don’t see how it could be a sin if the pope allows it at a papal Mass.

 

[QuasiCatholic]

There’s actually a lot of evidence (anecdotal and otherwise) that people are much more turned on by scantily clad members of the opposite sex than they are by naked members of the opposite sex. “Leaving something to the imagination” is an aphrodisiac it seems.

In nudist colonies and places in Europe where topless beaches are the norm, people barely give them a second look.