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[[File:natursutten-rubber-baby-nipple 818 general 7963.jpg|frame|This is [[Not Safe for Work|possibly the most work-safe image]] of a [[Visual Pun|"nipple"]] that we can use here.]]
 
{{quote|''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|The center of the Boob is the source of its power]]. It is so powerful in fact that society does not permit its public display for fear of wide spread anarchy, and [[Your Head Asplode|mass headsplosions]].''|''[[Cracked.com]]'', "[http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/ Boobs]"}}
|''[[Cracked.com]]'', "[http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/ Boobs]"}}
 
Though media can safely display much of the female breast, female nipples - or "female-presenting" nipples, if you came here from [[Tumblr]] - almost guarantee an [[Media Classifications|R rating]] from the MPAA. They might cost you $550,000 if you show them at half-time during the [[Super Bowl]]. The sight of it is so [[Harmful to Minors]], with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085304/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883 their delicate psyches], that you must click a release to see it on the Internet. The United States Supreme Court upheld an ordinance requiring strippers to [http://supreme.justia.com/us/529/277/case.html cover it] under a pastie.
{{quote|''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|The center of the Boob is the source of its power]]. It is so powerful in fact that society does not permit its public display for fear of wide spread anarchy, and [[Your Head Asplode|mass headsplosions]].''|''[[Cracked.com]]'', "[http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/ Boobs]"}}
 
What exposure counts as indecent is [[Our Nudity Is Different|a product of a society's mindset]] more than any underlying human cause. Different cultures certainly have different nudity taboos, and one sometimes gets the feeling in the United States that other countries are laughing at the prudery behind our backs. This works the other way round as well; - in the western world, a woman can show her legs without legal problems, [[Not So Different|but in some other cultures this is as taboo as the nipple is for the US.]]
Though media can safely display much of the female breast, female nipples almost guarantee an [[Media Classifications|R rating]] from the MPAA. They might cost you $550,000 if you show them at half-time during the [[Super Bowl]]. The sight of it is so [[Harmful to Minors]], with [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883 their delicate psyches], that you must click a release to see it on the Internet. The United States Supreme Court upheld an ordinance requiring strippers to [http://supreme.justia.com/us/529/277/case.html cover it] under a pastie.
 
What exposure counts as indecent is [[Our Nudity Is Different|a product of a society's mindset]] more than any underlying human cause. Different cultures certainly have different nudity taboos, and one sometimes gets the feeling in the United States that other countries are laughing at the prudery behind our backs. This works the other way round as well; in the western world, a woman can show her legs without legal problems, [[Not So Different|but in some other cultures this is as taboo as the nipple is for the US.]]
 
When it comes to prepubescent girls, it's a bit complicated. On one hand, since the breasts aren't present and child anatomy is androgynous, topless little girls can be considered non-sexual. On the other hand, since the female nipple is so sexualized, the practice of covering the female nipple from infancy onward will be in play and it can be considered [[lolicon]] bordering on child porn to show a female child with an exposed chest. Needless to say, cultures vary on this view.
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{{examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Miss Mune-Mune from ''[[AbenobashiMagical MahouShopping ShoutengaiArcade Abenobashi]]'' is all over this trope. Several times, one more revealing than the other.
* The original Japanese OP for ''[[Brain Powerd]]'' is all about this, although the series contains very little nudity.
* Anko in ''[[Naruto]]'' wears a fishnet top. Apparently she has no nipples.
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*** Considering Jiraiya wore something similar that clinked as it was removed, it's more likely she wears chainmail.
** [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|Nobody in that series has nipples]]; not even male characters.
* Same deal for ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Due to the incredible amounts of [[Clothing Damage]], this has practically become one of [[Ken Akamatsu]]'s stylistic signatures. Although he has an excuse, as the magazine that published ''Negima'' wouldn't allow nipples to be shown. They're okay now, but it would be weird if everybody suddenly gained nipples halfway through the manga.
* As though celebrating its move to a magazine with presumably laxer censorship guidelines, the first chapter of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' has nipple shots of new character Lily. Note that the [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]] for previous seasons, which were released in another magazine, used [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] all the way.
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]] has no qualms against displaying nipples on most female characters in her series.
** Prominently ''[[Ranma ½]] ''.
** But her male characters don't have nipples.
* Hevn-san from ''[[GetBackers]]'' is a curious case—when she wears a shirt that covers most of her breasts (okay, part of) her nipples are clearly outlined under the cloth...yet when she wears more revealing shirts, the part of her breasts where the nipples were before are now somehow blank.
** The mangaka's notes mention that he was allowed to get away with drawing exposed boobs so long as he didn't include nipples.
* Himari from ''[[Omamori Himari]]'' manages to show nipple before the fifth chapter is over. Then again, you'd expect no less from that series.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' gets rather creative when it comes to not showing nipples, to the point where one begins to wonder if the Major even ''has'' them. [http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k174/shikigamideathglare/vlcsnap-2009-09-26-01h40m06s231.png For example.] (Probably still [[NSFW]].) Confoundedly, they'll show pretty much everything else, and nipples on ''androids'' are A-OK.
** That's because Motoko is a living character in the show. The nipples shown during the construction of androids is ok because they are not animated yet. Think of it like old Greek art sculptures. They don't move or aren't moving yet, so society has no problem with showing it.
** They really stretch the limits in the show, sometimes. In one episode you see a crook being questioned watching porn while answering the questions; you see the reflection of the screen on his sunglasses, which just barely avoids showing the entire act, and does show the female actor's nipples. But since the it's just a vague reflection, it's still OK.
* ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'', being a fairly deep retelling of [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]] masquerading as softcore porn, dips into this ''all the time.''
* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' has no objections to showing female nipples. They're shown at least once every 3 chapters, and in every episode. The series has a LOT of [[Clothing Damage]], so much that in some cases the only thing left on the girl is an almost non-existent scrap of cloth covering the vagina.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' always resorted to using [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]. ''End Of Evangelion'' was the first instance of a nipple drawn, on [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Rei]] no less - it was a horror film not intended for minors. The ''Rebuild'' series however, don't shy away from the matter anymore (since it's shown in theaters): in the two films that came out so far, Rei flashed us no less than four times and even Asuka got a few frames of accidental exposure.
** Asuka was exposed as well in ''End of Evangelion'' when Shinji shook her too hard, but it was offset by the fact [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|that she was comatose.]]
* ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru]]'' has these in every single episode (in the uncensored version).
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the uncensored version of ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]''.
* ''[[Kanokon]]'''s OVA and Omakes
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* Raven Hex, sister of the title character in ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'' usually goes topless except for a pair of pasties with a long spike protruding from each one. She, and ocassionally other similarly-dressed characters, still appears on the cover of the book from time to time, because, hey, her nipples ''are'' covered. (Another character, Boo Cat, actually appears on the cover entirely naked sometimes, but the jack-o-lantern pattern of her fur/skin (guess where the "pupils" are!) makes it not-entirely-obvious that she's naked to someone unfamiliar with the book.)
* ''[[Empowered]]'' is technically [[Ecchi]], but we never see her nipples, thanks to [[Godiva Hair]] and other tropes. Ninjette wears shuriken pasties.
* Danish comic ''[[Valhalla]]'' generally does not shy away from showing female nipples, though sometimes it goes into [[Scenery Censor]] territory. Freya in particular switches back and forth between the two—she gets a few nude scenes in the comic, where she'll on some pages cover up with [[Modesty Towel]]s or [[Modesty Bedsheet]]s, and in others proudly display her naked breasts to the reader—to the point that you can't help but wonder whether she's trying to make some kind of statement about this trope.
* Dark Horse's ''Aliens: Colonial Marines'' i9s a glaring example of this trope. Strategically placed shadows, comically gravity-defying sheets, and other such Austin-Powerisms were used all to avoid showing the female nipple - ''even during gratuitous sex scenes''. It was even jokingly mentioned by a fan in the letters column in a early issue - "It would seem in the future no one has nipples?"
* The French graphic novel ''Pyrénée'' falls into the "a bit complicated" category over its uncensored depiction of a nude, [[The Jungle Book (novel)|Mowgli]]-style girl.
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* Like the [[Kirikou and The Sorceress|Kirikou]] movie, ''[[Roots]]'' and ''Shaka Zulu'' featured African women walking around top-free in a completely desexualized atmosphere. They were also made in 1977 and 1986, respectively.
** ''[[Roots]]'' followed the [[National Geographic Nudity]] rule that women in Africa could be shown topless, but the same women brought to America as slaves had to be shown clothed.
* In its first episode, ''[[Mad Men]]'' features a stripper, who ends up taking her bra off—to reveal pastie-clad breasts.
* In a particularly [[Squick]]y subversion, the second-season episode of ''[[CSI]]'', "Slaves of Las Vegas," goes to great lengths to position a naked female body ''just so'', so that her limbs cover her bits appropriately when she's found buried in a sandbox. Then, when it's time for the autopsy, no attempt is made to hide her nipples or derriere, and then the show one-ups itself by doing [[Squick|a TMI Cam]] ''into the breast via the nipple'' to show the saline implants.
** This episode was broadcast on free-to-air television in Singapore completely uncut. If you know how strict Singapore is about things like this (''[[Playboy]]'' magazine and its website are [[Banned in China|banned]]), then that's especially shocking.
* Related: Jeannie from ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' didn't have a ''navel'', or more accurately, featured a pastie-clad navel. Apparently, navels were pornographic back then.
** Only Barbara Eden's was pornographic. A scene set on the beach shows dozens of young ladies in two-piece bathing suits, navels exposed; Barbara Eden wears a much less revealing one-piece.
** Given the context this may have been a way to emphasize her "magical-ness". As a genie, it would stand to reason that she wouldn't have a navel - [[Genie in a Bottle|having never seen the inside of a womb]].
** Jeannie had seen the inside of a womb because she wasn't born a genie. Still, she might have lost her navel when she was turned into a genie (for refusing to marry a Jinn).
** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' had this problem come up as well. When they finally removed the restriction Roddenberry made a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] with two belly buttons as a response.
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* Humorously, British gardening show ''[[Ground Force]]'' garnered a huge cult following among people with no interest in gardening because its star, red-haired [[Earth Mother]] Charlotte "Charlie" Dimmock steadfastly refused to wear a bra, as she thought it was uncomfortable. Week after week she gardened in a thin t-shirt often with a loose sloppy neck, which made her presentation style rather compelling in the rain or cold conditions. Her cameraman soon learned the optimum angles to screen her from, and an educative time was had by all.
* Long-running British science documentary show ''[[Tomorrows World|Tomorrow's World]]'' tried to predict future applications for cutting-edge science and technology. It ran for twenty-odd years and possibly thousands of inventions, and the most anyone can remember about the science is that it successfully predicted sat-nav fifteen years ahead of time. Well, maybe that and presenter Judith Hann's nipples while she was explaining some scientific advance, whilst standing in a rather cold swimming pool..... for a fourteen year old boy at seven on a Thursday evening, this was like bonus time. Way back in the 1970's, Judith could out-Dimmock Charlie...
* ''[[Blue Peter]]'' presenter Anthea Turner once did a feature about training with Great Britain's high-diving hopefuls. Anthea allegedly has a reputation for being ''difficult'' and rather ''perfectionist'' with backroom staff such as cameramen and sound recorders. On this day, the cameramen took delight in filming her from unflattering angles, such as climbing the ladder to the dive platform in a one-piece bathing costume that was rucking up around her nethers in the classic "camel-toe". She was also filmed shivering in the cold with both visibly erect nipples making a very obvious point about the air temperature.
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' this trope is [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] by Leslie. When Jerry paints a picture of a topless female centaur (with Leslie's face) to put in a museum, a local Christian group is outraged and wants to burn it. Leslie gets Jerry to paint a male topless centaur and gloats that nobody would be offended by that.
* ITV's relatively short-lived answer to the BBC's [[Blue Peter]] was called [[Magpie]]. This magazine show for kids screened around 4:30 twice a week and was co-presented by Susan Stranks, another resolute non-bra-wearer with temperature sensitive nipples and thin tops. Young lads and their fathers, if present, were suitably entranced.
* On ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', costume designer William Ware Theiss became highly creative at wrapping women's chests vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, but lamented that NBC would not let them show the ''underside'' of the female breast. He speculated that they thought a fungus grew there.
 
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* R.E.M.'s "Pop Song 89" music video features three pairs of nipples: those of singer Michael Stipe and those of two female dancers (a third dancer appears to be wearing pasties). This is probably an attempt at subverting the [[Double Standard]]. Significantly, Stipe becomes a backing dancer himself at the end of the video, while the women take turns in the foreground.
** And when the [[Moral Guardians]] complained, R.E.M. stuck black bars over every set of nipples in the video, saying that a nipple was a nipple and they got rid of all of them.
* Duran Duran's [https://web.archive.org/web/20150709104742/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x132zt_duran-duran-girls-on-film-uncensore_music "Girls on Film".] 'Nuff said
** Duran Duran's video for [http://vimeo.com/9976137 "The Chauffeur"] also featured a topless woman.
* The video for [[Radiohead]]'s single "Paranoid Android" featured cartoon nipples which had to be covered up for US release. The band seemed confused that the censors balked at the cartoon nudity but had no trouble at all with the scene in which a man accidentally cuts his own limbs off.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', Slaanesh Daemonette figures used to have nipples, but out of all the GRIMDARK in the setting, this detail was considered a little too mature. Come on, it's the god of [[Squick]]; if anything, they should have shitting dicknipples!
** The [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat50025&prodId=prod1050024 Slaaneshi mount] figure still has exposed breasts with nipples (six, in fact), and the Forge World Keeper of Secrets has exposed breasts with (pierced) nipples as well.
* In the ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' 3.5 Monster Manual, there's a dichotomy: The harpy and the dryad are alien enough to be shown topless with nipples, but the nymph is inexplicably shown with some sort of covering.
 
 
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* Bethesda Softworks found themselves in the middle of a minor controversy when a fan-made mod was released for ''[[Oblivion]]'', which removed the default underwear tops for female characters and revealed their blurry but anatomically correct upper bodies. Probably in response to this, Bethesda delayed the release of modding tools for ''[[Fallout 3]]'' until ''after'' the holiday buying season (which is far from making the game impossible to mod, which is why it's known that, yes, they also removed the "details" from the female body texture.)
** And on the subject of Bethesda games, it seems they tried a little too hard to avert this in ''Fallout 3'': The base character models had both briefs and a white T-shirt for both sexes. One may notice if you take the armor (consisting mostly of scrap metal and leather straps) off a female raider, she's actually wearing more on her upper half now than when she was "fully clothed".
*** Leading to a rather strange situation where you demand a slave give you his clothes, amounting to a jock strap and leather bands attached to a ring and he is annoyed with the PC, even though he leaves wearing more clothing than he was before.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]'', on the other hand, had no problems with showing nipples (pixellated though they may be, it being a 1996 game). Of course, the game also included a (short) [[IKEA Erotica]] sex scene in one of its books...
** In ''[[Skyrim]]'', statues of Dibella (the goddess of art, beauty and sexuality) are nude, with visible nipples and an artfully draped cloth covering the lower region. This one probably got a pass from the ESRB, as it's artistic nudity [[In-Universe]].
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** The trope has also been played straight a few times. Notably, Ultimecia's [[Absolute Cleavage]] and more importantly, Siren is completely naked but strategically placed feather hide her nipples and crotch... though the crotch ones look exactly like pubes.
** There's a more blatant aversion of this trope as Ultimecia's final form showcases completely her breasts, including her nipples. Then again [[Fan Disservice|in this case, you probably don't really want to see them.]]
* [[LAL.A. Noire]] has full frontal female nudity. {{spoiler|Of course, all of the nude women are corpses at the time.}}
* [[Diablo]] had several female corpses that were completely stripped. The Succubi, who became increasingly frequent enemies towards the end were wearing little more besides thongs, and showed quite a few detail. This was mainly averted in the second game, where the corpses had Barbie doll anatomy, and all female enemies were wearing bikinis at least, with the one exception of Andariel, who while having her chest exposed, wore pasties with chains attached to them.
* Iskai in [[Albion]] have four breasts. Many females wear diagonal bras at most that leave two of them exposed. All details are visible, on all sprites and cutscenes.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090619021723/http://www.errantstory.com/comic.php?date=2008-05-08 this] ''[[Errant Story]]'' intermission comic. "Instant PG-13-y-ness."
* Subject of [http://www.octopuspie.com/2007-08-27/039-bad-connotations/ this story] in ''[[Octopus Pie]]''.
* Completely subverted in ''[[The Meek]]'', where the main character's naked upper half is fully visible for the entire first chapter. Despite the fact that it isn't sexualized in the least, people generally agree that her chapter is [[Not Safe for Work]] because of her nipples.
** Ironically, in the fourth chapter when she [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117003009/http://www.meekcomic.com/2012/01/03/ch04-04web/ appears again], her nipples seem to have [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|completely disappeared]].
* Even robots are subject to this, as seen in the first [[Shower Scene|gratuitous shower scene]] of ''[[Freefall]]''. Helix sees [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00203.htm black stripes across Florence's chest due to a PG filter in his vision system].
* ''[[YU+ME: dream]]'' recently featured [https://web.archive.org/web/20120821021231/http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1720 a page] ([[NSFW]]) with an [https://web.archive.org/web/20100131104541/http://www.rosalarian.com/yume/comics/0683-0684sfw.jpg alternate version featuring underwear drawn on.]
* Censored, barely, by flying papers and [[Editorial Synaesthesia|pain stars]] in ''[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb970.html The Whiteboard]''.
** First panel has [[Censor Steam]].
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** It was already averted [http://www.pasteldefender.com/158.html earlier in the comic], so it would have been pointless either way.
* This view is parodied in [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2270#comic this] [[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]] strip.
* Abused ridiculously in this ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' comic ('''NSFW''') [http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/733b888a04a713f18d8bee7f6488c291/49640%20-%20Bonbon%20Lyra%20Octavia%20Soarin'%20Trixie%20applejack%20artist%3Ajohn_joseco%20berry_punch%20big_macintosh%20celestia%20derpy_hooves%20everypony%20fanservice%20fluttershy%20gilda%20gummy%20human%20humanized%20nudity%20photo_finish%20pinkie_pie%20rainbow_dash%20rarity%20spitfire%20twilight_sparkle%20vinyl_scratch.png]{{Dead link}}
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085304/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883 This ''Onion'' article] satirizes the whole Janet Jackson thing and the question raised here beautifully.
* Loreffrey Photography Studios explores this in ''Nipple Non Grata'', a series of photos of topless women with their nipples photoshopped out.
* When [[Tumblr]] [[Think of the Advertisers!|emasculated itself in December 2018 in an ultimately futile attempt to attract advertisers]], one of the most prominent items on the list of banned content was the bizarre phrase "female-presenting nipples", prompting no small amount of mockery and [[Memetic Mutation]].
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The creators of ''[[South Park]]'' decided that showing breasts on TV is ok, as long as they aren't attached to a womans body. The result was the ''Heavy Metal'' parody ''Major Boobage'', where literally ''everything'' was made of breasts or had breasts on it with no censoring. Except, of course, the Hot Chick.
** Subverted if the "woman" in question is an undeveloped child, as evidenced by Wendy Testaburger's uncensored breast implant surgery in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society".
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' was drawn in a style designed by Bruce Timm, who is heavily influenced by 50s pin-up art. Even when the nipples of his female characters are not fully visible under their clothing, their breasts still come to a peak. This is notably toned down in the later DCAU entrants, when compared to Timm's usual comic book cover and interior illustraions.
* A second or two of the top of Callie's nipples in one episode of [[Ugly Americans]] (appropriately lampshaded, of course).
* One episode of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' shows the band watching what is ''obviously'' porn but there's a bar covering up the woman's nipples [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|so it's awwright]].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
''Note: All The Tropes is not a gossip site. Please keep in mind [[All The Tropes:No Lewdness, No Prudishness]] when adding examples to this section.''
 
* [[Lil' Kim]]'s [http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1593341&pid=3136191 infamous "dress" for the 1999 MTV Music Awards], which exposed all of her breast except for a small nipple covering to keep it legal.
* When showing the results of plastic surgery on a transexual[[transgender]] woman on a medical show, the before shots were "male" nipples uncensored, but following breast augmentation the "female" nipples were censored. They showed much of the swell of breast and the only part censored was the nipples which hadn't actually changed. That we had already seen.
* [[wikipedia:Pasties|Pasties]] are breast coverings that work only as nipple censors.
* [http://skepchick.org/2011/05/your-body-is-obscene-if-youre-a-woman-or-look-like-one/ Very strange example.] Andrej Pejic is a male model with a very androgynous, feminine appearance. He is often photographed in female clothes, styled as a women. Recently,{{when}} he appeared on the cover of a magazine, styled as a woman, in which he is shown opening his shirt as though he is bearing his breasts...which, of course, [http://skepchick.org/wp-content/uploads/dossier.jpg are totally absent]. Nevertheless, Barnes & Noble actually refused to display the magazine publicly, and ordered it to either change its cover or agree to be sold in a paper bag, on the grounds that the picture was too reminiscent of a topless woman. Needless to say, B&N has no trouble displaying topless men that are obviously masculine...
* Go to [[Las Vegas]] and collect those escort calling cards they hand out on the Strip. Most feature pictures of completely nude prostitutes staring provocatively at the camera while posing in a highly suggestive fashion, perhaps with one or two [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|"friends"]]—yet their nipples and other unmentionable parts are ''always'' covered by little stars or starbursts. Really, Vegas?
** ''Possibly'' [[Justified Trope|justified]], as those cards might easily find their ways into the hands of a child, which would then get the escort agency brought on charges for "[[Think of the Children|corrupting a minor]]".
* The only part of British broadcast television that retains American-level sensibilities concerning female nudity is the advertising industry. This makes British TV advertising more prudish and conservative in comparison to Germany or France or Spain, but makes it more pragmatic for the advertisers, who can run American TV adverts for shared products with no or little post-production needed. This leads to two notable things:
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*# On the one occasion where an advertiser tried to screen a shower advert in which the woman bared a single nipple (and then only after the watershed) howls of protest about "indecency" caused them to withdraw the advert. This even though the TV programme to either side of the commercial break, after nine pm, would have been likely to show more naked flesh in a sexualised context.
** Bottoms are allowed, however, but even this caused protest from [[Moral Guardians]].
* Seventeen-year-old [[Olivia Hussey]] was forbidden to attend the premiere of [[Romeo and Juliet]] (1968) wherein she played the female lead, because of the nude scene. That's right, she was judged too young to see ''her own'' nipples on screen. <!-- This one was actually true. MOD: No need to say that a Real Life example is Real. -->
 
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