Asbury Park, N.J. considering idea of allowing women to go topless on beach

[bobbyw24]

Asbury Park, the Jersey Shore town made famous by Bruce Springsteen, may soon get another claim to fame - its very own topless beach.

"Baring your chest is really no big deal these days," said Reggie Flimlin, who asked the Asbury Park City Council to allow women to doff their bikini tops on a stretch of city beach.

"Why are women's rights still at the bottom of the totem pole in regards to female toplessness?" asked Flimlin, 48, who runs a yoga studio in the freewheeling town.

She said she and other women occasionally go topless on a secluded part of the beach, and aren't worried about what men think.

"Men have better things to do than sit around and gawk at women all day long," Flimlin said.

Asbury Park officials are considering the idea - and a city council vote is set for July 7, Deputy Mayor John Loffredo said.

"Women in other parts of the world go to the beach topless," he said. "We think New Jersey women are just as beautiful as any women anywhere in the world."

It's a battle women already fought and won in New York - where every beach in the state is legally a topless beach. A 1992 ruling from the state's highest court threw out a law that made it illegal for women to take their shirts off in public.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz0s8ybQ0A1

[Dr.3D]

Shouldn't have ever been any "decency" laws in the first place. If somebody wants sun on any part of their body, they should be able to get it.

[noxagol]

"Men have better things to do than sit around and gawk at women all day long," Flimlin said.

Me thinks she doth give men too much credit.

[brandon]

I'm all for it, but this made me lol:

"We think New Jersey women are just as beautiful as any women anywhere in the world."

Yea right....

[american.swan]

me thinks she doth give men too much credit.

lol!!!

[HOLLYWOOD]

Great Business model... that will revive the despot beach community.

[Brian4Liberty]

"Women in other parts of the world go to the beach topless," he said. "We think New Jersey women are just as beautiful as any women anywhere in the world."

Once again missing the point entirely. It has nothing to do with beauty or sex.

Or perhaps he has a new philosophy? "All rights are derived from beauty". Interesting, sounds like ancient aesthetics. Plato or Aristotle maybe...

[roho76]

Should we all move there and start a libertarian society?