Mon Dieu! Topless Sunbathing Is Passe in France

The South of France is the perfect antidote to insecurity

(NEWSER) - After Lee Harrington got a breast reduction, she had “moments of neurosis,” looking down at her size Bs and wondering, "Did I make a mistake?” A summer spent topless in the south of France finally restored her confidence once and for all. “It seemed like the perfect spot to take my new rack for a test drive,” she writes on Salon . She slowly gets brave enough to sit up sans top—but she’s dismayed when she realizes, “No one’s looking at me.” More»

Over the top protest against 'gender discrimination'

(NEWSER) - The protesters wanted to get something off their chest—namely, their tops—and most passers-by were thrilled they did. A Los Angeles beach yesterday became the latest site of the growing "Go Topless" movement by women who are demanding the same rights as men to go bare chested. Some two dozen women wearing nothing more than band-aids or bits of red tape above the waist marched at Venice beach along with similar demonstrators in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Denver and Miami Beach to protest laws denying women equal rights to take off their shirts in public. More»

It's bound to be sensuous, says woman's attorney

(NEWSER) - An Italian mother who called the cops on a topless sunbather who was "troubling" her young sons by sensuously applying sunscreen has sparked a furious debate on the lack of couture on Italy's beaches. "Something like this happening in 2010 is absurd," snorted the Roman attorney for the 26-year-old topless woman. "It was a public beach and she could see no harm in what she was doing." He conceded that his "tall, brunette" client has an "ample breast," and is "naturally going to be sensuous when she applies cream to her chest," reports the Telegraph . More»

(NEWSER) - A bare-chested Sharon Stone has hit French newsstands, Fox News reports. The 51-year-old actress poses topless and in bondage gear on the cover of Paris Match. Stone, who memorably revealed another part of her anatomy in Basic Instinct, says posing nude is easy; it just depends on motivation. “I’m a person who feels that if it’s appropriate for the character I’m playing or the mood of the piece,” she says, then it’s “no big thing.” More»