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RECENTLY, I SENT MY FIRST EVER TOPLESS SELFIE.

This was no saucy pic, intended for titillation. Its recipient was a  woman I had never met: Emma Low, an artist and ceramicist based in the UK who operates via Instagram as@potyertitsawayluv. A  month later, having parted with $70, I  received delivery of a  small pot featuring an exact replica of my boobs – right down to the four freckles sprinkled across my chest.

Like many women, I have a complicated relationship with my boobs. As a teen, I hated them. They weren’t jaw-droppingly enormous: an E cup. But on my size 8 frame they made me feel too visible. Exposed. Anyone who proclaimed me to have “great tits” (or similar) would incite wrath or

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