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Originally Posted by Bernard
I think the fashion has changed. We’ve been going to the Dominican Republic for over a decade. In the beginning one woman taking off her top would almost guarantee a ripple effect of 20 to 40% of the women on the beach following. Long time guests told us ten years before that probably 3/4 of the women were topless on the beach, by the pool, and even the pool bar. Last time we went that definitely was not the case. Same beach/pool and same resort. Nobody would make a fuss over a topless woman but nobody joined in either. My wife has been the first to take her’s off but she’d much rather be three or four. She noted how nobody followed her lead, and felt more comfortable on our rooms pool patio than on the beach. We have a trip planned for this spring in part to enjoy the benefits of toplessness before it does become a thing that is frowned upon. The last trip we took was mostly Americans due to COVID and no Europeans or Canadians, so that might be part of it, but only explain part. Also, the age of the average topless woman has gone steadily up. Bare asses in a thong is everywhere on everyone, but a bare boob is rare below the age of 40. Still, I think the trend is clear. Even Las Vegas has cut back on its topless pool access, so much for sin city.
I suspect the pendulum will swing the other way someday in ten or fifteen years, but not anytime soon. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
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I have been in DR 6 times with first being 20 years ago. It was common back than for topless but even than it was closer to about 20% or a little less. It varied heavily depending on the resort and the number of families. I was an adult only resort and there it was at least 50% but if you walked down the beach there was almost none. I agree topless is way down but one thing I noticed this fall in the DR was that most of the guests were from South America. There are very few Europeans. The South Americans tend to keep their tops on and wear very small bottoms. The time I went before it was mostly Russians who also tend to keep their tops on.
There was a pair of older French couple in front of us and they would on occasion go topless. Talking to them, they said the Indonesia is the hot tourist place in Europe. In addition many due to economic/COVID conditions are staying in Europe on vacation.
The one thing I have always noticed is that Americans tend to do what others are doing. If the beach is mostly topless then they tend to go topless. If there are only a few then the tops stay on. You see this a lot in Spain and similar Mediterranean beaches.