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A wet T-shirt contest is a form of beauty contest in which the participating women wear a white or light-colored T-shirt without a bra, while water is sprayed or poured on them to make their clothing semi-transparent. The water is often cold to induce erect nipples, suggestive of sexual arousal. The participants sometimes remove their T-shirts, appearing topless or even totally naked. Wet T-shirt contests can be considered a form of striptease or erotic dance. The performance is intended to cause sexual arousal among the audience. It is becoming increasingly common for the lady contestants to remove all their clothing and kiss or touch in a sensual way the other participants, and thus, the contest starts to slowly shift away from its original format. Many of these contests are filmed, and then distributed over the internet. Analogous "wet boxer-short contest" with well-endowed young male participants are also held.

The origin of wet T-shirt contests is generally traced back to Jacqueline Bisset's appearance in the film The Deep (1977), in whose opening sequence she was seen swimming underwater and surfacing, wearing a white T-shirt. However, it has been reported that in 1969, Playboy ran a two-page spread of a wet T-shirt contest held at Mammoth Mountain as part of the K2 ski promotional tour, which would make that the first ever