• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    See how Indiana is red there? I had friends in college in Indiana back in the 90s who stripped to help pay for their schooling and they had to put round band-aids over their nipples. They could bare their breasts, inside a building, but not their nipples.

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      2 months ago

      Blue laws are hell to work around as a performer. Thankfully NYC is pretty lax.

      That said, the silver lining is that nipple pasties are an absolute central part of burlesque now and you can find everything from cheap disposables to custom made works of art

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        2 months ago

        It’s so funny though. Like the nipple suddenly makes it horrible smut but it’s okay with almost the nipple.

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          2 months ago

          Blue laws are a joke. In many states you can’t show underboob

          Also, notice it’s only fem presenting nipples

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            2 months ago

            Man nipples = Go for it anywhere at any time. At the DMV? Show off those nipples!

            Woman nipples = the worst thing you can possibly see in a strip club.

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        2 months ago

        To be honest nipple pasties are HELLA sexy. Just makes it even better when they get taken off later on. But who knows, maybe the reason I think so is because of burlesque popularizing them.