> How did the US get that way? Influence of prudish christian sects that preached that people should look modest and cover themselves and that any display of e

> How did the US get that way? Influence of prudish christian sects that preached that people should look modest and cover themselves and that any display of eroticism is a temptation to sin. Add hundreds of years of cultural "refinement" and you end up with a ban on casual nipples. > Why the gender difference? Well classically if a prudish women would find a man working and sweating topless and a bunch of young women enjoying the show giggling, both would be shouted at for indecent behavior and the man would be asked to cover up. It is that "cultural refinement" that created a gap by allowing the sexual objectification of men in cola commercials, while banning female nipples. Most such taboos have fallen in the 60s, but the prudes tried to make a stand on banning the eroticised display of naked female breasts and the current deal is an idiotic compromise.