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Top Seven Naked Protests

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There are many ways to protest your cause – letter writing, petitions, marches, sit-ins, strikes and good, old-fashioned throwing rotten fruit at your opponents.
Women in Los Angeles bare their breasts to celebrate National Go Topless Day.

But sometimes, nothing beats taking your clothes off – as with the recent example of American women who stripped off across seven cities in the States, to protest against laws banning them from going topless (seen above).
Here, we pay tribute to some of the finest examples of people stripping off for their cause.
Going topless to fighting for the right to go topless
Like their American counterparts, in 2007, Swedish women launched a campaign called Just Breasts to fight for their right to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools. Scandinavian feminists were outraged when two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm. Sadly for them, they lost their fight.

Stripping for animal rights
PETA are the masters of the entirely gratuitous naked protest – be it persuading a string of celebrities to go naked in protest against the fur industry, or (above) getting Che Guevara’s granddaughter to pose topless (save for some militaristic carrots) in the cause of vegetarianism.

Going naked to save the planet
Daring cyclists shed their clothes and saddled up to cycle through a city naked to highlight the damage caused to the planet by car dependency. Around 700 cyclists in various stages of undress took part in the Naked Bike Ride in Brighton – one of many Naked Bike Rides around the world.

Stripping in favor of prostitution
50 prostitutes threatened to march naked down the streets of El Alto in Bolivia after locals closed down the strip bars. Unsurprisingly the locals, who usually had to pay to get an eyeful of the buxom beauties, did not meet their demands.

Elizabeth Book of Florida
Showing your breasts as a protest in order to get the right show your breasts as a protest
Even more recursive than example one, Elizabeth Book was arrested in Florida for baring her breasts in 2004, under a law that banned acts of indecency in public, including women going topless The law she was protesting against, of course, was the same anti-toplessness law under which she was arrested.
While the Flordia court made no judgement on the rights or wrongs of the law against women showing their breasts, it did decide that if women were showing their breasts as part of a legitimate political protest against laws banning women from showing their breasts, then they were allowed to show their breasts. Got that?

Pirate Party in Germany
Members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a “fleshmob” of people who stripped down to their skivviesto protest the use of the so-called Nacktscanner (naked scanner), Jan. 10, 2010

Naked woman in ‘yoga protest’ at Parliament
A naked woman stopped traffic near the Houses of Parliament, by clambering on to a black cab for a five-minute ‘yoga protest’.

She yelled ‘Troops out of Afghanistan’, as the cabbie tried to shift her and tourists looked on.
Police finally managed to move the woman.

An angry cabbie tries to get the naked yoga protester to stop lying on the roof of his taxi
Witness Carl Backland, 50, said: ‘She jumped on the cab when it stopped at the lights – the driver wasn’t very pleased.’

(man-over-board.com)