I am not one to usually go topless in a very public, crowded area. For me to go topless it would take me being somewhere like a nudist beach, with a sparse amount of people, none of them too close by, and wanting to feel the sun, sand, and water on my naked breasts. I wouldn't need other people around me to be topless, but at least expecting it to some degree. I would definitely check for pervs.
I live in Portugal as many of you know and topless women on the beach is very common. It's allowed, not sure if it's allowed off the beach. Nobody really cares, though I'm sure the nicer specimens get ogled at.
Now, to address nudity in chat. I have taken my top off in chat and I can't honestly say exactly why I did it, but I enjoyed it a lot and would probably do it again. For me, that was the first time I exposed myself that way in front of several people who were watching.
I felt very confortable. Everyone else was doing it and it felt very natural. I was enjoying watching others and thought I'd return the pleasure. It also felt very friendly and sexy too. Which seems contradictory but I'm sure others who have been topless in chat know what I mean. It takes a special situation and group of people to make me really want to show my body like that.
From my experience, I'd say it's a good thing.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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