Toplessness

After a decision by the city authorities, women will soon be allowed to swim without the top of a swimsuit in Berlin's public pools, the BBC reported.

The ruling came after a woman who was kicked out of an outdoor pool for not wearing a swimsuit took legal action.

A second woman reported being told to cover up while at an indoor pool in December.

Female activist group FEMEN who stage daring nude stunts to get their message across pulled another one of their signature moves when a bare chested member mounted a statue outside the Ukrainian Parliament on Tuesday. The words “School of corruption” were written across her breasts while she was ringing a school bell, protesting what the group perceives as a corrupt Ukrainian parliament.

Why can a man go shirtless in a city park during a hot summer afternoon or on the concrete basketball court in a pickup game between “skins” and “shirts” and a woman … cant?

Topless protesters marched in Waterloo, Ontario on Aug. 1 to defend women?s rights to go bare-chested, after three sisters were stopped for bicycling semi-nude.

France's summer is fast becoming a memory, and so is one of its iconic beach sights: the topless woman.
     

France's summer is fast becoming a memory, and so is one of its iconic beach sights: the topless woman.
     

Local authorities were on high alert on Aug. 29, amid rumors that the more conservative visitors to Turkey’s first ever women-only beach were complaining about topless swimmers.