Massive support expected as Sweden discovers key to participation woes. We believe this campaign springs from a long-running campaign by men from Dagenham in the building trade who have worked tirelessly to bare their buttocks and desexualise them, succesfully.

"'They're 'just breasts'! This is the rallying cry of a network of women who have launched a campaign for the right to bathe topless at Sweden's swimming pools.'

Outraged by what they regarded as discrimination, a group of women in southern Sweden made a show of solidarity by establishing the Bara Bröst network. (The name translates both as 'Bare Breasts' and 'Just Breasts'.)

"We want our breasts to be as 'normal' and desexualized as men's, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches," spokeswomen Astrid Hellroth och Liv Ambjörnsson told Ottar, a magazine published by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education.

In a preliminary action in the middle of last month, seven members of the Bara Bröst network hopped into a pool in Malmö wearing only bikini bottoms. Before long, they were whistled to the side and asked to leave."

(Via digg Swedish Feminists Launch Campaign For The Rights To Bear Breasts At Pools: .)

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