the Horse's Mouth
by Jason Kurylo

 

 

 

Don’t look now, but half of you own
obscene chests. According to the
governments of Canada and the US.,
female breasts are obscene. This is one
piece of legislation I have never
understood,

in sucha childish, engineer-style prank.
If I so desire, I have strip clubs, B-
magazines, and Hot Dog: The Movie at
my disposal. Those who know me know
that I'm not about to stoop to low levels
just to view someone's chest.

Despite this, all thirty-four women
reacted as though I'd asked them to bear
my children. Six of them. Now.

* Why did this elicit such a response?
Was it so outlandish a request? If
someone proposed the same shot, with
anonymity assured and insured, but
focusing on the penis instead of the
breast, would men

 

especially since
said govern-
ments have for
many years been
largely male
establishments. I
have known
many males over”
the years, and
_ Most every one
has expressed a
liking for them.
Female breasts,
that is...

Before we
Start getting
letters from those
unable to read
between the
following lines,

 

 

give the same
reply? I know that
if I was explained
the reason behind
the picture, and
guaranteed
possession of the
negative, I would
have no problem
doing the shoot:
Perhaps I’m a
little more open-
minded than most
people. Perhaps,
deep in the recesses
of a slightly
disguised
stereotypical male
psyche, I am just
trying to see some

 

 

let me state here
and now that my
aim is not for
women to go
topless so that I can gaze at some titties.
If that was my goal, I’d just pop on down
to Mugs and Jugs. What I’m talking
about here is equality.
Why, in this supposed age of
enlightened, politically correct thinking,
are we entrenched in the archaic,
primitive practice of forcing people to
cover up against their will?
For many years, religious zealots,
_ afraid of everything from black plague
to dry rot, forced their small-minded
little views upon a weak, under-
educated populace of drones. Hell,
 peons and peasants used to be happy if
~~ they didn’t get flogged for picking a bad
potato; why should they complain about
having to wear a shirt?

What's the excuse now? I know
women would love to go shirtless in the
summertime. I know this from the
million times I’ve heard the line, “My,
aren't you lucky to be able to do that?,” just as
I’m ripping off my tee on the tennis
court.

Despite the general wish to have the
same right as men, most women balk
at the mere mention of toplessness. ‘Guys
would gawk and stare..." Come on. Do you
see entire European countries falling to
their knees simply because women go
braless in the streets? The only reason
guys are so hooter-hungry here is
because they're labeled off-limits.

And personally, if my gaze is going
to linger on a specific person, it’s going
to do so regardless of their attire, or lack
thereof. And to tell the truth, I've always
found looking at clothed people way
more appealing than naked ones,
regardless of how good-looking they
are.

Anyway, no matter how breast-
happy a guy (or girl) is, the novelty
would be sure to wear off. If not after
their first encounter, surely after a few
hours of head-swiveling on the beach,
at the park, etc.

(And besides, when was the last
time a couple of women at the park
averted their gaze from some barrel-
chested He-man just to save his
feelings?)

Originally, I wanted this article to
run with a picture of a man and a
woman, standing side by side. The shot
was to be of their naked torsos, necks
to navels, with a caption reading, “I don’t
see the difference, do YOU see the difference?”

There was to be no sexual reference
or inference, nor was there to be any
other use for the photo. If the ‘models’
wished, their identity was to be kept
completely anonymous, and I definitely
wasn’t looking to find a perfect figure.

I approached over thirty women
with this concept. I wasn’t interested in
the supposed “thrill” of seeing them
_ topless. I can’t consider wasting my time

Here she is, folks. This is the only woman
who can legally go topless at Douglas.
Or anywhere else, for that matter.

flesh. Perhaps,
given the state of
economic decay in
the world, I should
go live in a small hut in Morocco.

At least there, if they want to, the
women go topless.

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Photos by Toni Jones