History Main / NippleAndDimed

* On December 3, 2018, {{Website/Tumblr}} announced [[https://staff.tumblr.com/post/180758987165/a-better-more-positive-tumblr#notes a site-wide ban on NSFW content]] that began on December 17. Disregarding the backlash and mass exodus of users that this statement caused, one of the contents which is described as explicit to them is "female-presenting nipples" which quickly became the source of site-wide derision from nearly the entire userbase and the source of millions of memes playing with the terminology and twisting it around (with the most common example being a woman ''displaying'' a photo of a male nipple, which is still, in a literal sense, [[JustForPun female presenting]]). [[https://twitter.com/mishacollins/status/1069822738947178496 Even celebrities like Misha Collins have joined in the joking]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Beefsquatch", [[spoiler: Linda delibately invokes this InUniverse when she flashes her breasts for two minutes straight to get Chuck and Pam's show cancelled]].

* Can lead to bad blood ([[ComicBook/{{Vampirella}} pun semi-intended due to a common victim]]) on Website/EBay when even the slightest trace of nipple gets a censor box...and the buyer feels snookered since he expected something more raunchy. (It doesn't help that Da Rulez are either unclear or inconsistently followed.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "[[IncrediblyLamePun Butt Is It Art?]]", the duo steal nude paintings of women from the local art museum and cut out the "boobs" (as well as the "butts"). Surprisingly for the show's basic cable airing, the nipples on said paintings are uncensored. This occurs again in "Figure Drawing", in which the boys draw crude stick figure doodles of a nude model during a figure drawing class. The stick figures are drawn with unrealistically large breasts and uncensored nipples.

* TVTropes: This very page has gone through countless images, to EditWar levels at times. Images have included an uncensored human breast on the grounds that the shock it would elicit would aptly demonstrate the trope, the same image with the nipple censored, a blue-footed booby for the pun appeal, a rubber nipple from a baby bottle, and several others. The arguments on the discussion page were epic.

* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' featured a fourteen-year-old Brooke Shields[[note]]Though many scenes used a body double.[[/note]] appearing nude. To appease the censors, they actually glued her hair in place to avoid showing any nipples.

* In ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'', the bare breasts of several dancing women at the Victims' Ball are seen.

* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'', the female characters' nipples are either obscured by GodivaHair or SceneryCensor or [[BarbieDollAnatomy simply not drawn]]. The male characters are occasionally (but not consistently) drawn with nipples. However, in the extra pages of volume 9, we see Yamazaki's sketches of ''Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli'' and ''Art/VenusDeMilo'', in which the nipples of the women are very much visible. [[ItsNotPornItsArt Apparently, female nipples become less obscene when they derive from famous and lauded artwork]].

* ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'' has always gotten away with exposed nipples.
* You see nipples everywhere in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', but no genitals.

* ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'''s OVA and Omakes have no problem showing nipples.

* In a single panel of the pilot chapter of Miki Yoshikawa's manga ''Manga/ACoupleOfCuckoos'', the female protagonist is shown as a baby, and her nipples are clearly visible. This is changed in the edited first chapter so that her swaddling clothes are covering her nipples. Apparently, Yoshikawa's editor objected to even a ''baby's'' nipples just because they belonged to a girl.

* ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'' has [[spoiler: it's {{BigBad}} Android 21, who despite being a Majin doesn't get to be topless like Kid Buu or Super Buu. VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse and its sequel also follow this rule for female Majin]].

* Music/LilKim's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021141/http://www.mtv.com/photos/mtv-video-music-awards-1999-highlights/1563697/2506735/photo.jhtml infamous "dress" for the 1999 MTV Music Awards]], which exposed all of her breast except for a small nipple covering to keep it legal. L'il Kim's dress outraged Diana Ross: She JIGGLED Ms Kim's exposed boob and demanded "Just what do you call this?" and walked away in high dudgeon: Ms Kim just stood there open-mouthed for the whole evening; when she could eventually say something, all she could say was, "She jiggled my booby!". Diana Ross has form for grabbing boobs.

** ''WebComic/SpyingWithLana'' routinely portrays almost 100% of women's breasts, with the sole exception of the nipple (except for a few times in silhouette or through tight outfits). Nipples are invariably subject to HandOrObjectUnderwear and SceneryCensor (frequently, the object or scenery is [[GirlOnGirlIsHot another woman's breast smooshed against it]]).

* Music/CarpenterBrut music videos displaying [[{{Gorn}} violent sequences]] and female nudity are almost a CreatorThumbprint, but these clips usually need an edit to match Website/YouTube censorship policies (so they can remain on the platform, even in age-restricted). The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwSm6QgZM8 Hairspray Hurricane]] [[TakeThat gives them a middle-finger]] by applying this trope in a hilarious way: the gory scenes (including the one where a man gets his feet ''crushed by an escalator'') remain unchanged, but the female naked bodies are covered by [[StylisticSuck badly inserted]] [[{{Eagleland}} weapons]].

* In the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', Rebecca Romijn and Creator/JenniferLawrence as Mystique have either no nipples or they are covered by their natural "[[OrganicBra scales]]".

* ''Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe'': The nipples of the woman in the foreground are completely covered by her arm and the shadow it casts. They don't cover her {{sideboobs}}, though.

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* ''Anime/UsagichanDeCue'': Not even slightly. There are four main female characters: Miku, Inaba, Mimika and Koshka, and all four bare their breasts at some point. For those taking inventory, all eight nipples are accountable.

** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Adult Party Cartoon]]'' episode, "[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x04NakedBeachFrenzy Naked Beach Frenzy]]", the [[GagBoobs big breasted]] girl in the beginning takes off her top. It continues with two women taking a shower, tits shown and everything, and Ren & Stimpy are "shower attendants".

* ''Literature/ThisIsScrewedUpButIWasReincarnatedAsAGirlInAnotherWorld'': The manga adaptation customarily uses BarbieDollAnatomy for main character Ren, which is probably because, despite her well-developed figure and [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation addiction]], she's said in the LightNovels to only be eleven years old (this is only implied in the manga). On the other hand, an adult woman who is shown finding Ren's cooking OrgasmicallyDelicious does get her nipples drawn.

What exposure counts as indecent is [[OurNudityIsDifferent 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 people from other regions are laughing at the prudery behind our backs, especially {{Europe|ansAreKinky}}. This works the other way round as well; in the western world, a woman can [[LegFocus show her legs]] without legal problems, [[ValuesDissonance but in some other cultures this is as taboo as the nipple is for the US]] (and it used to be taboo in the Anglosphere too--see the OldTimeyAnkleTaboo).

** Also in "Tarot," the vampire Licorice Dust is often shown wearing live spiders as pasties.

* In a particularly {{Squick}}y subversion, the second-season episode of ''Series/{{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.

* When ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' 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.

* There was an old series called "Beggars and Choosers," about running a network television station. One episode featured this as a subplot, with two characters trying to figure out whether or not an actress' nipple was peaking out the top of her NaughtyNurseOutfit. Ironically, this aired on Showtime, which was still famous at the time for its abundance of softcore skin flicks.

* "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.

* In the Creator/SethMacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, they do a brief joke on the TV Show Entourage. This trope is basically the punchline.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' 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 illustrations.

** In the Adult Party Cartoon episode, ''[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x04NakedBeachFrenzy Naked Beach Frenzy]]'', the [[GagBoobs big breasted]] girl in the beginning takes off her top. It continues with two women taking a shower, tits shown and everything, and Ren & Stimpy are "shower attendants".

** The creators 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "[[IncrediblyLamePun Butt Is It Art?]]", the duo steal nude paintings of women from the local art museum and cut out the "boobs" (as well as the "butts"). Surprisingly for the show's basic cable airing, the nipples on said paintings are uncensored. This occurs again in "Figure Drawing," in which the boys draw crude stick figure doodles of a nude model during a figure drawing class. The stick figures are drawn with unrealistically large breasts and uncensored nipples.

* Similar revisionism on the part of the Creator/{{ITV}} network saw edits to the nudge-nudge double-entendre-laden movie ''Film/CarryOnCamping''. The film opens with sex-starved leery Creator/SidJames and Creator/BernardBresslaw taking their girlfriends to the screening of one of those 1950s nudist movies. Their intent is to soften the girls up to visiting a nudist camp. For most of the period 1975 -- 2010, TV screenings of this film shrugged and allowed the extracts from the nudist film to be broadcast uncensored, on the grounds that this is about as sexually arousing as a cup of cold tea. But in December 2013, ITV abruptly censored out these extracts, leaving the early part of the film somewhat lopsided. You see the character reaction, but not what they are reacting ''to''. When approached to explain, ITV explained that as a family network, they had obligations to a family audience. They did not explain why previously they had let the scenes stand, and felt no such obligation ''then''... The scene where Creator/BarbaraWindsor's bikini top flies off and a nipple is briefly exposed was allowed to stand, though.

* Inverted with Creator/RumikoTakahashi, who has no qualms against displaying nipples on most female characters in her series, prominently ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. It's her ''male'' characters that inexplicably don't have nipples. The manga of ''Manga/InuYasha'' similarly shows Kagome bathing nude in the sixth chapter, though the anime is {{bowdlerized}}. ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' similarly has an early scene where Lum's nipples are glimpsed briefly after Ataru rips off her bikini top. The anime version ran into some trouble with MoralGuardians over this scene, which Creator/MamoruOshii had reportedly refused to censor despite broadcaster [[Creator/FujiTV Fuji TV]]'s requests (Oshii would later deny being asked to censor the scene).
* Same goes to Creator/MasamiKurumada, he has no problem giving his female characters nipples while his male characters don't.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' generally follows the same rules as [[Creator/KentaroYabuki the artist's]] previous work ''To Love Ru'', where nipples are shown in the volumes but not the magazine. However, the serialized version has them airbrushed and/or lightened instead of entirely erased, [[BleepDammit sometimes leaving a surprising amount of detail]].