Free Your Nipples on the 7th Anniversary of Go Topless Day August 24th, 2014
I’ve always been told I’m the nudist muse. For instance just today I got this e-mail, “I wanted to tell you how much you and your just being there brighten my world! And if you’ll forgive me, your curves also do much to brighten my days.So I thank you very much! Please know that you truly make a difference in this world, even to some you’ll never meet!” I hope once you learn more about me and Go Topless Day, you too will want to become a nudist.
Being nude is beautiful and fun. As Michelangelo said, “What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
My name is Mary Clare Mulhall. I am probably the most famous nudist in the US. I’m encouraging women around the world to take off their tops, free your nipples, and celebrate Go Topless Day on Sunday August 24th.
My husband and I own a popular nudist resort called The Terra Cotta Inn located in Palm Springs, California, the sunniest city in the US. This December, we will have owned it 20 years. To see over 500 photos of our resort and Palm Springs visit http://pinterest.com/terracottainn We have nude vacationers from around the world stay with us. AOL Travel picked us as one of the 10 best nudist resorts in the world and perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.
I have always been a nudist at heart. When I was a little girl, my mom said I was forever ripping my clothes off and running around the house naked. In high school, I wore sexy bikinis, the skimpier the better. I’d lay on my stomach, untie my bikini top and sunbathe. I hate funny tan lines. I thought it was so unfair that guys could be shirtless on the beach and I had to wear a bikini top.
I met my future husband Tom in college. There was a farmer’s pond where the college students would go skinny dipping. One warm summer night, we worked up the courage to try it with friends. I loved the freedom of being naked outside and thought it was lots of fun. That one night of skinny dipping hooked me forever on wanting to be naked as much as possible.
Tom took a photography class in college. One day he came home and said that week’s assignment was glamour photography and would I like to be his nude model. OMG, it was such a cool idea. Like being photographed for Playboy. I let Tom photograph me for his class and he has been shooting me naked ever since. Millions and millions of people worldwide have seen my nude photos. I encourage everyone to be photographed topless or nude.
This brings me to Go Topless Day. On August 26th, 1920, Women’s Equality Day, women won the right to vote in America. Go Topless Day is now on it’s 7th anniversary. Going Topless is all about legal equality. If a man can legally be shirtless, a woman should be able to be shirtless too. It’s only fair. We both have breasts and nipples. Why can men show theirs and women can’t?
Now conservatives, bible thumpers, and prudes all say that it is immoral for women to be topless in public. Children have to be protected from the sight of a woman’s bare breast. Naturally they forget that babies breastfeed on these exact same bare breasts. But is it immoral to let others see you topless or even naked?
Back in the late 1880’s it was considered immoral for a “proper” woman to show a bare ankle in public. Society became “enlightened” so by the 1920’s it was just immoral to show a bare calf (ankles were OK). By the 1940’s ankles and calves were OK, knees were immoral. In the late 1950’s bikinis were immoral, but 2 piece suits were fine. “Morality” is always used as way for politicians and preachers to try to control the general population especially women.
Is going topless immoral? Well guess what. It was also “immoral” for men to go shirtless on the beaches of the US until the mid-1930’s. Men had to wear wool tank tops when they went to the beach as preachers and politicians said women and children had to be protected from the immoral sight of a man’s nipple. Guys finally protested in the 1930’s, thousands were arrested, but they won the right to be shirt free in public. It’s now time women won this exact same right.
Showing off your bare breasts is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s perfectly natural to want to be topless or naked when it’s hot outside. And it’s fun.
So take off your bikini top, or shirt this Aug 24th and celebrate Go Topless Day in the flesh just like me.
Mary Clare
