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Proposal Would Allow Topless Beaches For All On Nantucket &
A bylaw amendment allowing women to go topless alongside men on Nantucket beaches will hit the next town hall meeting in May. Haley Cornell'
NANTUCKET, MA — One woman, sick of feeling like women can't do things men want to do, is proposing a bylaw amendment to allow anyone to go topless on Nantucket beaches, the Cape Cod Times first reported.
Dorothy Stover is proposing the "Gender Equality on Beaches" bylaw amendment at the next Nantucket town meeting in May.
Stover claims that "in order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any public or private beach within the Town of Nantucket," the proposal reads under Article 71.
Currently, men are only allowed to take their tops off at all beaches in Massachusetts, and under state law, public exposure of female breasts to one or more persons carries a penalty of up to three years in prison with a $300 fine.
"This is really antiquated and this is inequality," said Stover, 40, in an interview with the Cape Cod Times. "Some men have bigger breasts than I do."
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