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Wanna see boobies?

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skymama    37

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Go to Daytona Beach on Sunday, they're having a free-the-boobies protest. :ph34r: And the best part for you guys is that the city's ordinance allows nudity when it is clothed in political protest.

Before you ask...no, I'm not going. This is a public sevice announcement. :P

Boobie Story
By Jeff Libby
Sentinel Staff Writer

March 2, 2004

DAYTONA BEACH -- When Ormond Beach mom Liz Book exposes her breasts Sunday, it won't be a "wardrobe malfunction." It will be a call for women's rights.

At noon Sunday, the last day of Bike Week, Book hopes to lead 1,000 "top-free" women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge.

Despite the backlash to Janet Jackson's "accidental" exposure during the Super Bowl halftime show, Book hopes her march could prompt a movement that could eventually add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men.

Even if only two people join her protest, she'll still go through with it, she said. "I never want to see another girl handcuffed and crying in the street because she yanked her top," said Book, 42. "Exposed breasts have been a part of the biker lifestyle for more than 50 years."

In the final lead-up to a march Book has been planning for months, she has been repeating her message on local talk radio several nights during the past week. She has handed out and posted hundreds of fliers along Main Street and has a stack of 1,500 still to distribute.

City officials and police are mostly taking a wait-and-see approach, in part because the city's ordinance allows nudity when it is clothed in political protest.

Protest or crime

"It all depends on their behavior," said Al Tolley, Daytona Beach police spokesman. "The complexion of any protest can change, and it can turn into a lewd act in a heartbeat."

Charles "Chuck" Eitel, a Main Street merchant, wants women who shed their tops for the protest immediately arrested.

"It's a sham. It's going to give bikers a bad image," Eitel said. "I told the police, 'Make sure you have the bus parked right at the end of the street and have a lot of zip-ties [plastic handcuffs] and get rid of them.' "

Kevin Kilian, vice president for events and communications for The Chamber-Daytona Beach and Halifax Area, said his group also is opposed to Book's planned protest.

"We as a community make a lot of concessions for our visitors," Kilian said. "It shouldn't be too much to ask that they respect the laws while they're here."

The city's nudity ordinance resulted in fines of $253 for 59 women who exposed their breasts during last year's Bike Week, according to police records.

Book's husband, Robert Van Winkle, bailed her out in 1998 when she was arrested for baring her breasts inside the Full Moon Saloon.

"A breast hasn't hurt anyone," Van Winkle said.

But baring them did hurt Book, who says she was stripped of her ability to chaperone school field trips for her daughter, now 11, when she moved to Volusia County three years ago because of the arrest.

Morley Schloss, a retired school administrator who helped decriminalize women's bare breasts in New York in the late 1980s, said women more recently have won the right to go top-free in parts of Maine, Vermont and in several provinces of Canada.

Federal lawsuit filed

A group of women in Brevard County, known as the "Topfree 10," have filed a federal lawsuit seeking the right to go shirtless in nonsexual contexts wherever men do, during such outside activities as beachgoing or gardening.

"It's really a pernicious thing, requiring women to wear tops and not men. It just reinforces the objectification of women," said Schloss, a resident of a nudist resort in Loxahatchee. "Top-free women are seen as stronger, and they don't get any harassment at all. The most reaction I've ever seen is a thumb's up."

But the atmosphere is far more charged in the huge, partying crowds attracted to Daytona Beach during Bike Week, spring break and Black College Reunion, Tolley said.

"What happens, when a woman exposes her breasts, if we allow it to continue, then we can get to a situation where a woman is overpowered by the crowd and she can get groped. The situation can very quickly spiral out of control," Tolley said.

Lori "Lilbit" Mauldin, a salesclerk at the Drunken Pirate T-shirt shop on Main Street, says she and some of her friends plan to march Sunday, even if they have to risk being thrown in jail.

"We're fighting for our rights to do what men do," Mauldin said. "If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me."
She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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VanillaSkyGirl    6

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Oh Andrea, I was a little surprised when I saw that you began a thread with this title. I knew that it must be something different.

How funny that nobody has responded, yet. They were probably thinking that they are going to see breasts, but then they clicked to this thread and realized that they had to read instead...lol! So many skydivers have the attention span of a sparrow, too...:ph34r:

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Faber    0

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in DK,girls can drop the top most places if they want.. whats the big deale.. i mean.. most people see boobies sometime in their life... we all know they are there and most of us likes them:):P,let them be free if they wants toB|:)

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Stefan Faber

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Oh Andrea, I was a little surprised when I saw that you began a thread with this title.



but were you strangely turned on? :o:D:D:D;);)


nice avatar Andrea B|
I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

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nice avatar Andrea



I was wondering when you would notice that. I figured I should show my good side for a change. :P
She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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nice avatar Andrea



I was wondering when you would notice that. I figured I should show my good side for a change. :P



so your not mad at me to sneaking that shot of your rig..........ya your rig:):D:P:P:P
I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

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