guys with their shirts off

I wish they could! But boobs are synonymous with sexuality and some boring old farts many years ago decided that women were for procreation only. In other words, not for men's sexual pleasure. It was probably some old mayor in the mid-west who had a dog-ugly wife and was just jealous. He would walk across to the local saloon and get his rocks off there - before being in the front row of the chapel the following day!