A brief history of nipple censorship and why it matters
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With sexual politics as they are right now, will the nip ever be free?
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Maybe America just needs a big blast of boobies: Lina Esco tells Salon about her topless crusade to free the nipple
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Journalism — Emilie Lavinia.
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Free the Nipple: A History of a Hidden Movement
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THE 'CENSORED' TARA: POWERFUL PASSION VS PRUDISH PURITY. Depictions of women in Buddhist art and literature and the sexual objectification, denigration and censorship of women's biology and nakedness – Dakini Translations and
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What the Hays Code Did for Women
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Photoshop the Nipple - Beating Back Censorship Double Standards - Social Songbird
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The Weird, Wild Legal History of Breasts and Nipples
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Free the Nipple, says History
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The Fight to Free the Nipple - The New York Times
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Facebook's Censoring of Women's Bodies is Nipocrisy
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Male or female? Genderless Nipples account challenges Instagram's sexist standards, Instagram
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Fighting for the right for women to show their nipples, is fighting for equality, Opinion
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