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Fake?
 

This is (most likely) the beach of Salinas / Sa Trinxa at Ibiza, where sights like this are not uncommon. First three pictures the same girl, with her friend. Plus a few more of the same beach.

fakes or real ?
 

don't know for sure, you ?

It IS becoming very rare in France, except on some secluded (and generally private) beaches, like around St Tropez. Slightly less rare in Spain, but even there it's really decreasing, especially among younger women. I've been in Spain twice last year (San Sebastian and around Barcelona), and spotting even only a few topless women at the beach was rather difficult.

About 10 to 15 years ago, it was so common that it was rather rare to spot women who were NOT topless at the beach in these countries...

In the Scandinavian countries it used to be very common for girls and women of all ages to sunbathe topless, today almost none do. Either people go to dedicated nude beaches, or they keep their tops on. This has changed within the last decade or so.

Well, in Spain (or at least the parts I visit) I have not noticed any reduction in the topless count. I've not been to Southern French beaches for some time, so cannot judge those.

What would you attribute this to? Awareness of the modern prevalence of digital cameras and websites like OCC?

Or is it some complex cultural/demographic shift?

guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/22/topless-bathing-france

These are Sa Trinxa, 100% sure as I've been to that beach every year for more than a decade, several times on each trip.

I would say that I've not often seen women as young and beautiful as the examples in those photos, that are nude right at the busy part of Sa Trinxa bar. Maybe once every 5 or so visits you may see one.

Instead the nude ones are more likely to bathe on the quieter section before you reach Sa Trinxa, where there is a stretch that is considered to be a nudist section. If you sit there most folk around you would expect you to be nude as well for etiquette, but even then it's not mandatory. But I always sit at the Sa Trinxa bar itself rather than make it blatantly obvious by sitting right in among the nudes, although as it's Ibiza it's true that most of them probably wouldn't care :D

But I have to say the majority of nudes there are male or old. When you do get young and pretty females like aforementioned, they are usually with their boyfriend/husband. However a couple of times I have seen groups of females all bathing nude together.

Agua Blanca is another beach in Ibiza that has a nude optional section, maybe about 1 in 3 are nude the times I've been. Last year I ended up having a couple and their 2 daughters who looked about 17-19 move next to me. The father and the 2 daughters were nude, the mother wasn't. They were jumping around in the waves nude too. No pics I'm afraid, I can't take camera to the beaches when I'm there on my own like I was on that occasion.

re: topless bathing in Western Europe
 

For those worried that there may be less topless bathers in Western Europe, it's worth remembering that British girls on holiday in Spain and Greece are still bathing topless on the beach in high numbers. So go where they go :D

I can't comment on France or Scandinavia, but there are still plenty girls from European countries going topless in Ibiza. If you take the very busy section of Bora Bora at Playa den Bossa as an example, yes there are probably less topless there on average than there used to be. But if you stroll down the beach in either direction, you will still see plenty. The German girls there are most definitely still going topless in high numbers.

There are also a lot more Eastern Europeans in Ibiza these days, and plenty of them seem to be going topless.