And after topless?
— Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1984-0828-411A / Settnik, Bernd / CC-BY-SA
Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary, in GoLocal 24.com
Nantucket residents have voted 327-242 for the town to allow anyone – that means women! -- to be topless on the island town’s beaches.
The official language of the bylaw amendment called “Gender Equality on Beaches’’ (politically correct!) says:
“In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless {even men!} on any public or private beach within the Town of Nantucket.”
Given that in the summer Nantucket hosts many rich and well-traveled people who have seen lots of topless beachgoers on, say, the Riviera or in the Hamptons, this may not be that much of a step. But the measure may lure some day trippers to engage in a little perfectly legal voyeurism.
We stay away from Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and Block Island in the summer. Too damn many people, too expensive and too much reliance on unreliable and crowded ferries. Of course, for the fat cats (mostly in finance) who increasingly dominate these luxury islands, there are their own planes.
The town on Nantucket Island when it was still called Sherburne, in 1775
