Prof to study why women flashed breasts at NHL hockey fans

[Champ]

CALGARY - A study into why women flashed crowds of Calgary Flames fans during last year's NHL playoffs should shed light on current Canadian attitudes about female nudity, says a Calgary professor.

"There are gender role issues here," said Mary Valentich, of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Social Work.

"These women are doing something unconventional and yet they're using the traditional sexual route to express whatever they're expressing." advertisement

She said Ontario student Gwen Jacobs started the ball rolling in 1991 when she was convicted of indecency for walking bare-breasted down a street in Guelph, Ont. She was protesting the inequality of a law that allowed men to take their shirts off in public and not women.

Five years later the Ontario Appeal Court reversed her conviction.

"It took Gwen Jacobs in Ontario to protest by taking off her shirt on a hot summer day and she had five years of legal troubles," said Valentich.

At a sex research forum last fall, Valentich heard a report on Canadian attitudes towards female toplessness that suggested that while most Canadians were comfortable with women baring their breasts at the beach, they were ill at ease when it was done on the street.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0120topless-study20-ON.html

[Zuni]

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