Subject: Topless law curisoity
From: abinc1@ix.netcom.com (David Engman)
Date: 1995/07/24
Message-Id: <3uu2bc$p6r@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: rec.nude

You are right. The NY Courts have held that it is discriminatory for the police to prosecute women who are topless while not doing the same for men. As long as the woman is not topless AND doing something lewd and/or for money, there is no legal basis for her arrest just for being topless. This is true anywhere throughout the state of NY.

The challenge is that City Officals are basically ignoring the ruling and challenging any woman who is topfree to put on her top or face arrest. Whereas, most women do not wish to be arrested, they comply with the officials. The NY City Mayor even threatened to arrest any topfreedom behavior during the NYC Gay Pride Parade in which there is traditional topfreedomness.