Men and women strip off to stop sexual objectification of breasts

Hundreds of topless men and women gathered on Brighton beach, New York City, to normalise naked breasts as part of the ‘Free the Nipple’ campaign.

The activists are fighting for female barechestedness to be permissible in all areas that men and boys are allowed to be topless, as well as opposing social media censorship. The movement aims to advance gender equality and to oppose sexual objectification.

Samantha Pressdee, the event organizer, said: “I’ve been a member of the Free The Nipple campaign over the past year. I joined the campaign to challenge the way women’s breasts were perceived.

Breasts have been sexualised and the point of this campaign is that they don’t have to sexual. There’s nothing wrong with kids seeing nudity if it’s not in a sexual context.

We had a lovely time, loads of pictures were taken We ended up relaxing on the beach, some people decided to go for a swim whilst others brought out their guitars.”

International Go Topless Day is the next event that has demonstrations in dozens of cities around the world. It is held to support the right of women to go topless in public and men to cover their chests by wearing brassieres or bikinis on gender-equality grounds.