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Originally Posted by Sonera
In Spain the locals often go naked or topless - I suspect its partly a political demonstration of opposition to Francos rule which was really strict catholic and where you could get arrested for walking hand in hand with your fionce.
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I was growing up in France during that post-Franco era. A lot of the toplessness that occurred during that era was from French and other European women who flooded the beaches and went topless and/or nude; since the legality of it had become "fluid." The local Spaniards at that point were not entirely happy about it.
My high-school sweetheart was one of those French women who went down to Spain and got topless on the beach. I think I still have a pic somewhere in my stash. It had become something of a trend.
Ironically, as toplessness fell out of fashion for the French, the new generation of Spanish women, who had grown up seeing topless foreigners on their beaches, started going topless themselves. While I was vacationing along the French/Spanish coast border, topless Spaniards outnumbered the French.