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{{trope}}
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{{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]"}}
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]]'', "[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
▲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.
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
▲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 child [[Pornography/lolicon|lolicon]] to show a female child with an exposed chest. Needless to say, cultures vary on this view.
See also: [[Thong of Shielding]], [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]].
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Miss Mune-Mune from ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]] has no qualms against displaying nipples on most female characters in her series.
** Prominently ''[[Ranma
** But her male characters don't have nipples.
* Hevn-san from ''[[
** 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
** 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
* ''[[To
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the uncensored version of ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]''.
* ''[[
* The final battle of the second ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' film decided to show Yoko and Nia's breasts uncensored in several shots from the Tengen Toppa Ganmen sequence onwards; amusingly, Yoko's clothing ([[Stripperiffic|minimal though it was]]) seems to ''completely disappear'' just for the sequence. Considering how [[Badass]] and [[Hot
* The main character of ''[[Pretty Face]]'' is male, but has to assume a female identity. One chapter revolves around his acquisition of fake breasts. When the fakes are first shown, they're completely uncensored and the nipples are drawn. However, as soon as the (again, male) hero puts them on, they're magically censored and remain such for the rest of the chapter. Apparently, anything ''resembling'' a woman's nipples is verboten.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* 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.)
* ''[[
* 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
* 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.
== Film ==
* Referenced in the [[Eddie Murphy]] film ''[[
* ''Scrooged'' had a Solid Gold Dancer in the [[Show Within a Show]] live Christmas special, whose areolas were "just barely" visible over her neckline-- "And these guys are ''really'' looking!"
* ''Bram Stoker's [[Dracula]]'' has Dracula's brides topless when they molest [[Keanu Reeves|Keanu]]...err...Jonathan Harker. But they get tops on in the broadcast TV version. It is also noticeable that there are five major female characters in this movie, the three brides, Lucy, and Mina. Of these, only Mina doesn't have a topless scene (she does have a transparent nightgown scene, though), incidentally, she is the only one played by an American actress.
* ''[[Avatar (
* The first TV screenings of the war film ''[[Zulu]]'' cheerfully screened the film in its entirity, including the mass wedding sequence near the start where several hundred Zulu warriors dance their way into wedlock with a line of several hundred very exuberantly bouncy Zulu maidens. On the hitherto mentioned [[National Geographic Nudity|African tribeswomen]] principle, this protracted scene of southern African pulchritude was always left in, regardless of the time of day of screening, throughout the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. Yet in the early 2000's, all this abruptly changed and British TV adopted a strictly censored version with all the bouncy toplessness left out. There was no clear reason given for this change of mind on the part of the broadcasters, and it was noticeable that later graphic scenes depicting mass slaughter of Zulu warriors under concentrated British riflepower were left in.
* Double subversion in ''[[Mallrats]]''. Brodie talks T.S. into visiting Ivannah the topless fortune teller for obvious reasons. She duly disrobes, revealing a ''very'' conspicuous third nipple which utterly disgusts Brodie while T.S. becomes fascinated with her fortune-telling
* ''[[Monty Python]]'s [[Life of Brian]]'' played with this nicely when showing Judith the morning after, with her appealing body unclothed except for strands of Bible Hair ([[Godiva Hair]] as worn by Eve) neatly covering her nipples while her shrubbery is fully exposed.
** And this is seconds after [[Male Frontal Nudity]].
* In the ''[[X
* ''[[The Iron Lady]]'' received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA despite a brief clip of topless women in the form of [[Stock Footage]].
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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
* In a particularly [[Squick
** 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
** 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
** 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:
* Parodied in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', when Kitty flashes Michael to make a point, and a censor cloud comes up over her nipples. Then Tobias flashes Michael because...[[The Ditz|he's Tobias]]...and the same censor cloud comes up.
* This is one of the various topics that Bill Maher was talking about when he was defending France from the likes of Conservative American Politicians. When Bill was going over the good parts about what France has over America (let alone in general) he mentions on Nude Beaches are much more accepted in France than in the US and in his words "Because they are not a nation of 6 year olds
* On an episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]],'' Claire is "killed" and wakes up naked on the autopsy table. They have no problem showing her opened ribcage with all her internal organs on display, but as soon as she puts herself back together, cue the camera cutaway until she puts on the [[Modesty Bedsheet]]. [[Hayden Panettiere]] was underage at the time of filming.
* The National Geographic Channel was criticized for this with their show "Taboo". When covering non-European cultures where nudity was socially acceptable, women were shown nude. However, [[Unfortunate Implications|White women were always censored, even in contexts and societies where female nudity was not a taboo]], such as public beaches in certain European nations, European media, and nudist colonies.
* While it doesn't top ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' for sheer [[Squick]], ''[[Sanctuary]]'' is more audaciously spineless, if you'll pardon the oxymoron. It's apparently not okay to show nipples on [[Our Mermaids Are Different|mermaids]], but it's okay to show [[Scenery Gorn|the shredded bodies of hundreds of said mermaids]]. (To be fair, they [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|aren't exactly mammals]]... wait, that just makes it worse.)
* The Scenery Clause is blatantly illustrated in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. It was pushing the limits in later seasons to have [[Right Through His Pants|fully clothed]] risque situations and a [[Modesty Bedsheet]] a quarter inch thick in the later seasons, but three years earlier and they're allowed to have a life-sized, full-color, three-dimensional wall hanging in the Magic Box of the top quarter of a woman, goddess, or demoness with visibly erect nipples, which at points takes up the entire screen for multiple seconds.
* When ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' was first broadcast on ABC, the cast sued to have it run without changes. ABC removed the nude scenes, among other controversial items. The courts said "not this time," but granted that in all ''future'' broadcasts, the cast would have creative control.
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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:
== Music ==
* The cover art of Daniel Lanois's album ''For the Beauty of Wynona'' is a work by photographer Jan Saudek, showing a naked woman holding a knife. It proved too strong for American tastes, so a big "American Edition"
* The left half of the cover of the 1966 album ''Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer'' contains a close-up shot of a near-naked female torso, complete with a necklace and tassled pasties.
== [[Music Videos]] ==
* R.E.M.'s
** 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.
** To be fair, the bloodied stumps were also censored...
* [[Britney Spears]] released two versions of the video for "Gimme More", while both have glimpses of her painted
* The Russian band
* Liars music video for "Plaster Casts of Everything" has two versions. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-r8HWri41s&ob=av2e uncensored version] featuring full frontal nudity of the female kind, and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIFlWiBZp3o censored version] where the [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|breasts are still shown]] but the nipples have been removed and the genitals pixelized
* "Who's Your Daddy," by Benny Benassi, comes in two versions. The Censored version is a series of exploitation film parodies centered around sexy women. The Uncensored version is similar, but pretty much has various tits on full display for the duration.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
** 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
== [[Video Games]] ==
* 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
** 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
** 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
* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games include [[Bikini Bar|strip clubs]] with dancers who never expose anything "indecent". This in a game depicting a wide variety of destructive and violent acts.
** The tops come off in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]''
* In ''[[Saints Row
** Not just on you. Sometimes you can see NPC's streaking through the streets. The same Mosaics show up on them, even as they go cartwheeling through the air after you ran them over.
** All the same is true for ''[[Saints Row the Third]]'', and it's obvious that the developers weren't happy about it. They rebelled by allowing you to wear pasties that you can color to look just like nipples.
* [[The Witcher]] in three of five chapters has an [http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Dryad NPC] you can interact with (and even have sex) that is completely naked, but predictably she is censored in the US release of the game. The official site now has a "Director's Cut" patch that removes all censorship added to the North American release, restoring nipples to NPC (and monster) character models and [[Page Three Stunna|"sex cards"]].
* In the ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' manual, the puppet Gepetto uses in one page of the manual is wearing a shirt light enough so that you can see her nipples. The game was rated T for partial nudity in the US, but this probably isn't the reason.
** There is one outfit for the puppet in the Japanese version that cannot be obtained through normal means in the U.S. that has this costume, presumably because of the above. (Midway basically wrecked the wine cellar dungeon in order to get rid of the sidequest needed to get it.)
* In ''[[Duke Nukem]] 3D'', you could walk up to the strippers, give them some cash, and they'd flash you, revealing extremely pixelated pasties.
* In ''[[Giants: Citizen Kabuto]]'', the sea reaper Delphi was initialy rendered topless with visible nipples in the European release. In a (failed) bid to avoid the M rating from the ESRB, several design changes, including giving Delphi a bikini top, were done in the US version. However, gamers found out that simply deleting a specific file from the game's installation folder removed her top.
* ''[[God of War]]'' was the first mainstream American video game to subvert this trope.
** Which was in turn not only [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] but reverted in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=146 this] [[VG Cats]] strip.
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* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' features a female playable character whom the player can have take a shower. Not only are her breasts on full view, but so is her backside; the only thing denied a viewing is her crotch. Though a man taking a shower in the game's very first scene also obeys these rules, too.
** Later in the game, she is made to [[Striptease]] at gunpoint. A trophy is awarded if you can get her out of the situation without showing nipples.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' plays this straight, and similar to ''Fallout 3'' above, actually covers up some characters more when their clothes are off; Morrigan's default outfit comes with the works; [[Absolute Cleavage]], [[Underboobs]] and [[
* In the arcade game ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)|Gauntlet]] Legends'' there was an easter egg; if you used the blue Valkyrie with the player initials NUD and passcode 069, your character would be nude with black censorbars covering the naughty bits.
* ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' featured a [[Big Bad]] who had nipples during gameplay, but in the higher-definition FMV sequences she reverted to [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]].
* In ''[[The Sims]] 2'', if the censor blur is removed without any other mods installed the women don't have nipples, however men do. Of course this has been corrected in various [[Video Game Perversity Potential|game mods.]]
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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.]]
* [[
* [[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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==
* [[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 ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[
* 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:
== [[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
* 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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** And how. At one point they actually had topless women holding speed limit signs. Their speeding problems were soon replaced with traffic jams...
* The female centaurs in ''[[Fantasia]]'' are shown bathing bare breasted, although they have no nipples. The flower necklaces they wear often don't help either.
** The "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence has several split-second shots of harpies with visible nipples. It's interesting to note that when footage of this segment was used in the [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] show "Fantasmic!", it was carefully edited so as to avoid showing the harpies.
* In
* 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
** 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:
* 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 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.▼
▲* [[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.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasties Pasties] are breast coverings that work only as nipple censors. ▼
▲* When showing the results of plastic surgery on a
* [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, 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 publically, 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...▼
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* 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? ▼
▲* [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
▲* 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
** ''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:
** Bottoms are allowed, however, but even this caused protest from [[Moral Guardians]].
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