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    French minister defends 'precious' right to sunbathe topless







    A woman sunbathing in Brittany, France. Photograph: Claude Thibault/Alamy
    France’s interior minister has defended the “precious” right to sunbathe topless on beaches, after police asked a group of women to cover up on the southern coast.
    French gendarmes patrolling a beach in Mediterranean seaside town Sainte-Marie-la-Mer last week asked a group of topless sunbathers to cover up in response to a complaint from a family, the local gendarmerie said in a statement on Facebook.
    It acknowledged their actions had been “clumsy” but said the officers only wanted to calm the situation, insisting there had been no official order to ban topless sunbathing in the town.
    But their actions prompted an avalanche of criticism on social media, where users wondered if the practice was now out of bounds.
    “Is Sainte-Marie-la-Mer now Saudi Arabia?” wondered one user, while others slammed a creeping “prudishness” in France.
    “It was wrong that the women were warned about their clothing,” interior minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
    “Freedom is something precious. And it is normal that officials can admit their mistakes.”
    “You will always see me in uniform,” the spokeswoman of the French gendarmerie Maddy Scheurer wrote on Twitter. “But topless sunbathing is allowed on the beach at Sainte-Marie-la-Mer. It was clumsiness by two gendarmes who had the best intentions.”
    Topless sunbathing in France is legally not considered to be sexual exhibitionism although it can be halted by local directives outlawing certain styles of dress.

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    But far from everyone in France takes their tops off on the beach these days and topless sunbathing has become less popular in recent years.
    Surveys show that younger women are increasingly concerned about sexual harassment and body shaming on the beach.
    Less than 20% of French women aged under 50 now sunbathe topless, compared with 28% 10 years ago and 43% in 1984, according to a recent survey by pollster Ifop of over 5,000 Europeans including 1,000 French.
    This makes the French less willing to sunbathe topless than some other Europeans, with almost half of Spanish women saying they sunbathe topless and 34% of Germans.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/25/french-minister-defends-precious-right-to-sunbathe-topless
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    It's legal. There are beaches where it isn't.

    Choose

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    Young ladies should be free to get their tits out whenever they please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Young ladies should be free to get their tits out whenever they please.
    Hmmm... Are you implying only young women?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Hmmm... Are you implying only young women?
    I'm not IMPLYING. High milage saggy granny boobs should be kept tucked away safely out of sight.

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    ^ What about those with moobs . . . asking for a Karen and Tax.

    (jeez, it's a joke, guys . . . pre-empting their coronaries)

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    This thread reminded me of

    https://teakdoor.com/members-only/14...puppies+thread (The Puppies thread.)


    (Bsnub better not look, no grannys)
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    French minister defends 'precious' right to sunbathe topless-french-beaches-optional-jpg

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    I was too distracted by the fact they look really uncomfortable lying on those rocks. Is that what the frogs call a 'beach'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    I was too distracted by the fact they look really uncomfortable lying on those rocks. Is that what the frogs call a 'beach'?
    Thought same but apparently Brittany beaches are a bit uncomfortable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    French minister defends 'precious' right to sunbathe topless-french-beaches-optional-jpg

    Meanwhile in New Zealand ... the locals also took to the beach

    Last edited by panama hat; 26-08-2020 at 04:07 PM. Reason: edit sp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    I was too distracted by the fact they look really uncomfortable lying on those rocks. Is that what the frogs call a 'beach'?
    Why they do not prefer the beaches we know so well:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Why they do not prefer the beaches we know so well:
    Because they're in . . . France, you utter cretin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    I was too distracted by the fact they look really uncomfortable lying on those rocks. Is that what the frogs call a 'beach'?

    Erm, what rocks?

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    Someone needs to explain to them that this is not how you do a lesbian 69 scene.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Erm, what rocks?
    Cleveland?


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