Painted, near-naked ladies on the prowl for cash in Times Square angering tourists

[Liberal_in_LA]

An out-of-control influx of near-naked women jockeying for tips has turned Times Square into the XXX-Roads of the World — shocking children and incensing legions of tourists and New Yorkers alike.

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“It’s inappropriate,” fumed Odessa Leitch, 38, watching the provocative parade of ladies with her 12-year-son and 3-year-old daughter at her side.

“Oooh,” added her stunned son, Tyler George, “there are little kids around here.”

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Last summer, random Saturday tallies of near-naked women in the area found 21 working between May 24 and Aug. 2. This year, between May 30 and July 14, their numbers nearly doubled to 40 as the line between tasteful nudity and blatant exhibitionism became ever blurrier.


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The competition is getting fierce for the cash of gawking out-of-towners or random passersby. Some of the women are accompanied by male muscle to ensure nobody snags a free photo or sneaks a selfie.

One topless temptress goes so far as to softly caress tourists with a feather to get their attention.

Tourist Sarah Lorei’s eyes went wide Saturday as one of the nearly-nudes sauntered past her and her 4-year-old daughter.

“It is offensive,” said Lorei, 40, of Harrisburg, Pa. “It doesn’t make me feel so angry that I want to leave, but I wasn’t really expecting to see anything like that.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/tourists-annoyed-painted-naked-ladies-times-square-article-1.2327227

[zappaman]

1. Doesn't hold a candle to the Times Square I remember.

[HappyPlace]

7. I lived there before it went all Disney...

I loved the seedy peep show and porn shops, it was like walking through a movie, inside the movie!

[RKP5637]

9. Yep! This looks pretty tame to me!

[MADem]

14. I thought the same thing--I remember when Times Square made Boston's Combat Zone look tony.

Now it's Disney with aggressive nudes...?

What a world we live in!

I wonder if that Naked Cowboy is irritated at people weaseling in on his act....?

[msanthrope]

22. I remember the Times Square of Jimmy Breslin---I preffered the hookers to Disney, too. nt

[herding cats]

49. Everything was always better in the era before I got to experience it!

Fine rub it in some more.

Well, the internet is better now! Well, when it's not rapidly degrading into something nightmarish that is.

Fine, everything sucks now that I'm finally able to experience it. I hope you're all happy, you're all right as far as I can tell.

Excuse me, now I'm just going to slink off and be depressed in that corner over there --->

[MADem]

67. People forget because we survived it, but the crime rate was through the roof back then.

It was sleazy and scary--so you didn't miss as much as you think! Watch Midnight Cowboy and look at a few old photos, you'll get the vibe without getting knifed in the subway!!

[d_r]

68. Internet not better now

Lots of click bait and trolls

[COLGATE4]

74. Me either! What ever happened to the seedy XXX movies, the hookers,

pimps, drug sellers, winos and assorted crazies. This is kid stuff.

[Nye Bevan]

2. As a big Disney fan I actually find this less offensive

than the sorry-looking bunch of Mickeys and Minnies in dirty ill-fitting costumes.

[pintobean]

16. oh my

[MADem]

21. Or "Anti-Semite-Me Elmo"......!!!!!

[nomorenomore08]

65. Love the shot of him getting arrested, in the costume!

[Warren DeMontague]

61. yeah, the knockoff mascots and cartoon characters are downright creepy.

At least half-naked painted lady is just being herself and not ripping off someone else's copyright.

[Cleita]

3. Looks like Carnivale in Rio spilled over to Times Square. eom

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Human bodies, colorfully painted... OH THE HORROR!

[notadmblnd]

25. Even the Naked Cowboy has seen enough.

“There’s so many boobs,” sighed Robert John Burck, you don’t look at them anymore.”

Seems that is as it should be to me

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Well, myself, the human body is beautiful

And we Americans are too puritanical in general.

[notadmblnd]

34. You won't get an argument from me on that

nt

[Logical]

5. I need to personally investigate this to decide if it is offensive! nt

[U4ikLefty]

42. I may need to accompany you on this investigation

for transparency of course.

[Logical]

44. A 2nd opinion would be good! nt

[PeaceNikki]

6. Pppppppppppppfffffffffffft. "Even the Naked Cowboy has seen enough".

I cannot take an article seriously when it includes that sentence.

[TeddyR]

27. Wondering the same

Heading to NY for work tomorrow for a few days so I'll report what I find out.

[countryjake]

10. Maybe somebody should open a little museum there...

showing in detail some before and after pictures of the old Times Square of the 70's versus this new one. That might make some tourists less likely to criticize the present ridiculous circus atmosphere.

Forty years ago it had storefronts with child pornography pics hanging right in their front windows.

[DFW]

11. I want to see them try this in January

When the wind is howling and the wind chill feels like ten below.........

[steve2470]

80. I feel deprived, I was in Times Square in January....

and no ladies!


It was 25 F, snowing and windy, no big deal, right ?

Hope your summer is good, my friend.

[DFW]

83. Only about 16500 miles to go!

Then it's back to the grind.

[LittleBlue]

12. Thread is useless without pics

Also I find it strange that people talk about the children. The adults care far more than the kids.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. grumblegrumble what's become of DU grumblegrumble THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES!

[Lochloosa]

18. KICK THIS POST!

[Stuart G]

19. Now this is something I can agree with

[MADem]

20. PI-CHERS (lol)!!!!!!! Courtesy of those class acts at the NY POST...

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They aren't really naked--they're wearing paint and underwear.

[TeddyR]

28. Are those

Little teeny blurs over the point of the breast?

[countryjake]

36. OMG! You're right!

Aaaaaargh! My eyes! My eyes!

(possibly blinded by the mere shape of a nipple)

(and why anyone felt the need to "Pixelize" that first pic is beyond comprehension)

[MADem]

52. Of course! Because girl-ones have to be fuzzed!!!! It's the POST!

What's weird is that it's not illegal to go topless in NYC. Goose-gander, all that...

[melman]

15. I'm guessing Tyler George wasn't all that upset

[FLPanhandle]

17. Fall and winter are coming

I think the weather will stop this before the authorities.

[MineralMan]

23. Mommy! That girl doesn't have some clothes on!

"You're right. Isn't that interesting? She has paint instead."

"Can we go to McDonald's?"

"OK."

[liberaltrucker]

24. So, I take it these tourists have never been to NOLA during Mardi Gras

[TeddyR]

29. Or NOLA

On any Friday night.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. Or the DU Lounge on jambalaya day.

[Kali]

51. !

[beveeheart]

53. Or to Vegas

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

64. Where in Las Vegas are there living topless women on the strip approaching tourists?

I'm pretty sure I haven't seen that.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

69. Last Feb I saw a pair dressed like 'island girl' characters-- grass skirts and tiny pasties.

[beveeheart]

71. Fremont Street and the Strip

I was just there 3 weeks ago. Saw quite a few topless painted showgirls or wannabes. I don't have any photos of them because they charged you for that. Lots of people didn't seem to have a problem paying them.

[Warpy]

66. OH, hell, they never even noticed how tight some of those jeans are getting

So tight that a model wandered around the city in painted on jeans and nobody noticed.

[Warpy]

30. Obscenity is all those mommies teaching their kids

that women's bodies are disgusting and evil.

Hell, I hated the Disneyfication of Times Square. I remember it when it was tarts and peepshows and it was more interesting. While it needed some cleanup, they cleaned it up too damned far. The not-quite-naked ladies are a tribute to what it's supposed to be, what it has been historically.

It's not like jobs with living wages are that easy to come by.

[cheapdate]

31. Oh noes! Think of the childrens!!! Protect them from the Boobs!

Oh brother. My brother and I used to roam the French Quarter. We survived.

[V0ltairesGh0st]

32. oh bloody hell ....

The I'm offended crowd just can't help themselves.... Your kids aren't stupid, they will see nudity at some point in their life. I swear people act as if their kids are going to turn into prostitutes on the spot. Did she approach you and your kids .....NO ?...ok then walk on and shut your face.

[cloudbase]

35. We were warned about them painted up city women.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

40. With the hitches in their getalongs.

[U4ikLefty]

43. she's about to vamp him! nt

[DawgHouse]

81. Ha ha! You've got quite a hitch in yer get along!

[onehandle]

37. I'm not a prude and I am definitely not a non-fan of 'near-naked women,' but Times Square...

...has become a cess pool of base human activity and a carnival of grifters. The Palins would do well there.

Whenever we go to NYC, we avoid Times Square like the plague.

I blame these two people:

[MADem]

54. Before it got gussied up with franchises and billboards, it was a cesspool of a different sort...!

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/29/spend_an_afternoon_on_42nd_street_in_times_square_in_1978.php

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

38. Arrest all these Time Square grifter assholes for vagrancy.

Treat them like any other aggressive panhandler would be. I'm not saying I liked the old Time Square, but this is not an improvement.

[Reter]

39. Ha, they should take it a step further if anything

Next time they can take their bottoms off too, and paint their vag's.

[Renew Deal]

41. There are usually 1 or 2 girls in front of the Hard Rock.

Most of the tourists I see going by look more bemused than angry. The girls are only wearing thongs with their chests painted. Sometimes their backs are painted too.

[pintobean]

45. Painted Ladies

[Art_from_Ark]

55. And then, there's this

[pipoman]

46. Gentrification will come...

[alcibiades_mystery]

47. Funny story

We were recently in Times Square on a family vacation. Well, we were all over NYC, but we were also in Times Square. In any case, my six year old son saw a couple of these women. They basically had bare breasts painted as American flags. When we got back home he said, very ominously, "I saw something very...weird in Times Square." We knew almost immediately what he was talking about. My wife says, "Was it a woman without her shirt on?" He says, "Yes. Yes! I can't get that vision out of my mind!"

It was very difficult for us to keep from bursting out laughing.

[Liberal_in_LA]

48. lol. poor thing. did you get him into therapy?

[alcibiades_mystery]

50. I'm sure he's been traumatized for life

He may need an emotional support animal companion to get him through the next few rocky years.

[Nye Bevan]

56. Anyone who exposes a child to a woman's unclothed breasts

needs to go to prison.

[Buns_of_Fire]

70. Uh-oh. We know what happens when boys start noticing these things...

[Quackers]

57. Some of the women are accompanied by male muscle

to ensure nobody snags a free photo or sneaks a selfie.


WTF? Snag a free photo? Since when do people think they can force the public to pay for a picture of the public? Does this mean that I can walk around, photo bomb tourist, then have hired muscle shake them down for $20 just because I'm in the photo?

[lumberjack_jeff]

58. "New York City is the place where they say; 'hey babe, talk a walk on the wild side'." nt

[RandySF]

59. So what do the bodyguards do if someone takes a picture from across the street?

that ending badly concerns me more than the nudity.

[bettyellen]

60. the Elmos and fake Obamas try not to let you get pics, but sidle up and try to get you to pose with

them. It's pretty weird. First time I saw a big group I tried to take a picture of them, I guess they assumed I had a friend standing near by? They just clustered around me trying to make a sale.

[Warren DeMontague]

62. I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but those tourists in the pictures don't look angry at all.

[Skittles]

63. I'd get my picture taken with one of those gals

then send it to my conservative neighbor as a Christmas card

[brooklynite]

79. Your neighbor might like it...they're very patriotic

[Skittles]

84. LOL

conservative patriotism is as fake as their christianity

[Attorney in Texas]

72. You should put a SPOILER ALERT in the title. I think this is the plot of NBC's new show "Blindspot"

[seveneyes]

73. Nothing wrong with teats on the street - Just don't give them money

I'm not sure how their "muscle" can prevent you from taking a picture. Any "muscle" that assaults you can be sued into poverty.

[Orsino]

75. We are the job creators. n/t

[valerief]

76. And now, on to REAL problems...

[Kablooie]

77. But they are wearing all America red white and blue stripes! Who could complain about that?

Just good, old fashioned American patriots expressing their love for our country.

[Android3.14]

78. Really? this is what we are using electrons for?

How stupid.

[KamaAina]

82. I was just in midtown a couple of weeks ago

alas, in the Fifties. And with Mom.