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Originally Posted by Erii
I've just done an interesting (to me anyway) little exercise. I've gone through my wife's old photo albums and photos I have and searched for just standard beach shots from Spain, mainly ibiza. The photos had to be of a busy beach in the middle of the day (there really are s lot of photos of sinsets!) That search wasn't that productive so I they trawled flikr for people's holiday snaps from ibiza and whatever busy mainland resorts I could think to search for. All the photos however had to be taken between 1998 and 2003.
I then counted up how many women in the background there were, and how many if them were topless. Then I added up the numbers.
I made sure I didn't include any obviously staged topless shots of people's girlfriends or wives, and i tried to not include any obvious voyeur shots. Just what looked like genuine holiday snaps with women accidentally being snapped topless in the background.
Across all the photos I found that 46% of the women across all the beaches were topless. And that just included the ones topless at the moment the photo was taken. I also included women up walking around, or perhaps just arriving or leaving, of which many more were covered up. How many of these got their norks out when they lay down?.
I need a time machine to go back then! Most women 20 years ago were happy it seems to show off their tits on a Spanish beach. I'm just glad some of these moments have be preserved for posterity.
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At one point I did a similar count from shots of crowded beaches, though date range more like early 90s. The figure I came out with was one third of women topless on average, up to a half on a really hot day, so that's consistent.
I think social media allowing thongs but not breasts has been a big factor. Young women see lots of images of their role models (celebrities and peers) in thongs but not topless. There might also be an element of buttocks being more related to strength and sport whereas breasts are more passive.
That said, I think there are probably still quite a few women who would and do get topless, but they do it in semi-private spaces like a secluded cove, or around a villa pool or on a hired boat, not right in the middle of a public beach.