There are many ways to protest your cause – letter writing, petitions, marches, sit-ins, strikes and good, old-fashioned throwing rotten fruit at your opponents.

Women in Los Angeles bare their breasts to celebrate National Go Topless Day.

But sometimes, nothing beats taking your clothes off – as with the recent example of American women who stripped off across seven cities in the States, to protest against laws banning them from going topless (seen above).

Here, we pay tribute to some of the finest examples of people stripping off for their cause.

Going topless to fighting for the right to go topless
Like their American counterparts, in 2007, Swedish women launched a campaign called Just Breasts to fight for their right to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools. Scandinavian feminists were outraged when two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm. Sadly for them, they lost their fight.

Stripping for animal rights
PETA are the masters of the entirely gratuitous naked protest – be it persuading a string of celebrities to go naked in protest against the fur industry, or (above) getting Che Guevara’s granddaughter to pose topless (save for some militaristic carrots) in the cause of vegetarianism.

Going naked to save the planet
Daring cyclists shed their clothes and saddled up to cycle through a city naked to highlight the damage caused to the planet by car dependency. Around 700 cyclists in various stages of undress took part in the Naked Bike Ride in Brighton – one of many Naked Bike Rides around the world.

Stripping in favor of prostitution
50 prostitutes threatened to march naked down the streets of El Alto in Bolivia after locals closed down the strip bars. Unsurprisingly the locals, who usually had to pay to get an eyeful of the buxom beauties, did not meet their demands.

Elizabeth Book of Florida
Showing your breasts as a protest in order to get the right show your breasts as a protest
Even more recursive than example one, Elizabeth Book was arrested in Florida for baring her breasts in 2004, under a law that banned acts of indecency in public, including women going topless The law she was protesting against, of course, was the same anti-toplessness law under which she was arrested.
While the Flordia court made no judgement on the rights or wrongs of the law against women showing their breasts, it did decide that if women were showing their breasts as part of a legitimate political protest against laws banning women from showing their breasts, then they were allowed to show their breasts. Got that?

Pirate Party in Germany
Members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a “fleshmob” of people who stripped down to their skivviesto protest the use of the so-called Nacktscanner (naked scanner), Jan. 10, 2010

Naked woman in ‘yoga protest’ at Parliament
A naked woman stopped traffic near the Houses of Parliament, by clambering on to a black cab for a five-minute ‘yoga protest’.

She yelled ‘Troops out of Afghanistan’, as the cabbie tried to shift her and tourists looked on.
Police finally managed to move the woman.

An angry cabbie tries to get the naked yoga protester to stop lying on the roof of his taxi
Witness Carl Backland, 50, said: ‘She jumped on the cab when it stopped at the lights – the driver wasn’t very pleased.’

Since I am hoping someday to retire, I’ve been searching for that “just right” volunteer job. I just want to give back to the community a little something.
I looked around a long time and think I might of found it. It had to be one where I didn’t feel like it was a chore. Something enjoyable. Something a little different from the ordinary day-in, day-out routine.. At last I am truly comfortable being a volunteer. I no longer feel like my talents are being wasted on non-meaning, irrelevant trivialities. I do feel good again . .. . ..

I Found The Perfect Retirement Job

This is a big day for us here at Man Over Board.  So please excuse us for blowing our horn today.

This will be our first day that two milestones will have been achieved. The first has to due with traffic to our blog. We will have broken the 1000 daily page view hurdle for the very first time since this blog was created. Not bad for a blog that is less than two months old.

The second goal is even more important to us.  We have reached our 500th comment from one of our great readers. I wish I could blare music and give out a nice set of brand new car keys to that poster. But that, unfortunately is not going to happen. (Update Sandee from Comedy Plus became our 500th poster)

TO YOUR IMAGINARY NEW CAR

Thank you all so much for being a part of our blog and we hope the future continues to be bright.

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Looks like guys in Florida better watch out. Not sure if it’s the climate or living on a peninsula that grows bugs the size of lobsters, but these are true stories that are coming to you from sunny Florida:

Woman Bites Husband’s Penis

Orlando Woman Didn’t Want to Have Sex

Apparently, just saying “No” wasn’t enough. Charris Bowers of Deltona, Fla., is charged with biting her husband’s penis while performing oral sex.

Charris, 27, and her husband Delou, had come home from a bar late one Friday night in December 2008.

According to the police report, obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, Charris claims she was on the couch when he put his penis in her mouth, and she bit him to get him to pull out.

Delou says he punched her several times before she unclinched her teeth and let his manhood go.

Charris was charged with misdemeanor battery, and was allowed to go home.

Wedding Crasher With a Crowbar

Fla. Woman Faces Aggravated Assault Charge

Lisa Coker, 20, was arrested after allegedly showing up at her ex-boyfriend’s wedding reception with a crowbar and razor blade.

“I don’t take money for sex,” the 26-year-old Leesburg, Fla., resident allegedly told police, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

“I take money for company and the sex is free.”

Sex Toy Assault

Florida Woman Arrested After Poking Boyfriend With Sex Toy

Police say an intoxicated Kimberly Lyn Calvert poked her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy, and he called 911.

The 45 year old Florida woman faces battery charges, according to the St Petersburg Times

Crocodile Tears in Husband Murder Plot

Police say Dalia Dippolito tried to arrange for her husband’s murder — but made the mistake of hiring an undercover cop to do the job. Now she may be crying her way into the Weird News Mug Shot Hall of Shame

Police say she offered $6,000 for her husband’s death, planned an alibi and told the informant that the murder would make her “very happy,” according to the Miami Herald.

After staging the crime scene — even the TV show COPS was on hand to watch — police brought Dippolito to headquarters, where she found her (presumably soon-to-be ex-) husband and the “hitman” waiting for her.

She was charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder and has been placed under house arrest — at her mother’s house.

You can watch the video of her breaking down on learning the news of her husband’s “death” over on YouTube.

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