Swedish women fight for topless rights

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times and Decaying Morality

Swedish women fight for topless rights*

By staff writers

November 20, 2007 11:40am
Article from: NEWS.com.

SWEDISH women have launched a campaign to fight for the right to go
topless on beaches and in swimming pools, saying they have just as much
right to go without clothes as men.

Scandinavian feminists were outraged when two women were asked to cover
up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm, the
Daily Mail's Metro.co.uk website reported.

"If women are forced to wear a top, shouldn't men also have to?" said
one of the women, 22-year-old Ragnhild Karlsson.

Now women in southern Sweden have set up the Bara Bradiost network,
which translates as Just Breasts.

"We want our breasts to be as normal and desexualised as men's, so that
we too can pull off our shirts at football matches," said a spokeswoman
for the group.

The campaign's strategy has reportedly been a raging success, with
members of Just Breasts jumping into swimming pools across the country
wearing nothing more than bikini bottoms.

The country's equal opportunities ombudsman will decide whether or not
to take up the case on behalf of the women later this month.