![]() ![]() Most people who saw them did not pay much attention. They emphasized that what's important was their ability to exercise their right to go topless. While they had attracted a few oglers, the members chose to ignore the stares and picture taking. As well, totally nude activities including sunbathing on private rooftops and visiting spas. The group engaged in a wide variety of topless activities, including reading in public, going to restaurants and plays, cycling around New York, visiting beaches, and having snowball fights. ![]() They had also been allowed to use the roof top deck of the "nude-friendly, gay-friendly, everything-friendly" Colonial House Inn in Manhattan's Chelsea District. The group formerly gathered in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Madison Square on the High Line at Bryant Park and the New York Public Library Main Branch in Sheep Meadow, Cedar Hill, and the Strawberry Fields in Central Park Battery Park and the attached East River Esplanade and Washington Square Park, among other locations. The group actively encouraged new female members to join, inviting "open-minded, free-thinking, body-positive women whose favorite things include reading books and being naked". Some participants came only once while others were regulars. The group had more than 100 individuals take part, but depending on the event, typically 3-15 women and one or two men attended. The group invited any woman (and a small number of men) to join them and had received a generally favorable reception in the media and by the public. The group's blog had reported that there had been no harassment of the participants by the police and very rarely by the public. The primary objective of the group, besides enjoying the sun and book reading, was to create awareness that New York law allows toplessness in public and to change social attitudes to the exposure of women's breasts. The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society was a group of several dozen women and a few men that had, since August 17, 2011, organized regular gatherings around New York City, meeting to read and discuss books in public while topless.
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