Nude women bare all

Playboy has announced it will bring back nudity, a year after it stopped printing pictures of naked women. The magazine, which broke taboos in the s with its provocative centrefolds, dropped nudity in March in an effort to broaden its appeal online and in print. Cooper Hefner, the magazine's chief creative officer and son of founder Hugh Hefner, said removing nudity from Playboy was "entirely a mistake". He said: "Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn't a problem.

Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's breasts , including her areola and nipples , are exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual medium. The male equivalent is barechestedness , also commonly called shirtlessness. Exposed breasts were and are normal in many indigenous societies. However, developed countries have social norms around female modesty , often enforced by legal statutes , that require women to cover their breasts in public. In many jurisdictions, women who expose their breasts can be prosecuted for indecent exposure , although public breastfeeding is often exempted from public indecency laws. Social norms around toplessness vary by context and location. Throughout history, women's breasts have been featured in art and visual media, from painting and sculpture to film and photography , and such representations are generally defended on the grounds of artistic merit.

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Nudity , or nakedness , is a state of being in which a human person is not wearing clothing , or more specifically not covering the genitals. For humans, nudity and clothing are connected to cultural categories such as identity, values, and moral behavior. In Western societies , there are two contradictory cultural traditions relating to nudity. The first comes from the ancient Greeks , who saw the naked body as the natural state and as essentially positive. The second is based upon the Abrahamic religions , which have viewed being naked as shameful and essentially negative.