A Modesty Proposal

I was thinking recently about the strange fact that the US, unusually among industrialized nations, still considers women's* chests to be obscene, such that exposing one to the public is a criminal act.

The fact that an exception is generally made for breast-feeding establishes pretty definitively that that is not that function that renders breasts obscene. Instead, the argument, as I understand it, is that women's breasts--and, in particular, the nipples--are sexual organs in a way men's nipp...