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Originally Posted by Pacom
Even at the height of the topless era in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was a stroke of luck to go to the beach with female friends and have them go topless. It could happen, but it wasn't the norm. The usual thing was that if you went with female friends, they kept their tops on. The real opportunity was bumping into them by chance when they were already topless, though they would usually cover up.
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I know you said it was just your perception, but not sure quite how accurate this is. The video in the first post of this thread shows a scene from maybe late 90s, early 00s and there are a few women with bikini tops on, but the vast majority are topless. And there a lots of couples there with the girl with her norks out, but also lots of mixed friend groups where the women seem pretty happy to have their baps out in front of clearly their male friends. When I went to Greece early 00s I was there just with my missus (who spent the entire two weeks with her boobs proudly out for all to see) but I saw lots and lots of groups of friends where all the women in the group were topless and it just seemed normal.
When on Santorini we met two Danish couples who were backpacking the islands like we were and both the women were completely at easy having their tits seen by their mates boyfriend. We also met a group of British med students, two women and a chap, and both of the girls sunbathed topless in front of him. And that was all just at our hotel pool!
When we travelled to Ios it was crazier... Pretty much no woman had her top on at the beach and if you know that island it was a big party island back then so lots of mixed groups of brit, Germans etc, and all the girls had their tits out in front of their platonic males friends it seems (in fact I know of mates who travelled there a couple of years before and the girls got them out in front of the boys)
Then about the same time (a couple of years before) before me and wife were together my wife went with a mixed group (she was with another chap at that point), two couples including her, one single woman and two single men, and my wife and the other woman in a couple both spent the two weeks with their tits out in front of the lads that they are both still mates with now (the single woman didn't tbf as there was some history I think with one if the single chaps whereby he was a bit sexually weird with her and she didn't want to let him see her tits, but she did spend the girls holiday a couple of years later with my missus with no top on by all accounts)
Then there's my father in law who has spent countless hols through the 90s with my mother in law topless as per every other woman in their friend group when they go away on group holidays.
So I think it was much more prevalent than you suggest and I know women, my wife being one of them, who were okay to get them out in front of make friends in an effort to not get tanlines (and I am told wet bikini tops are not nice to wear)
So it's such a shame if the happy position for women is to be topless, that modern society seems to have quashed that inhibition... It's not like all the men I described in the above scenarios did not enjoy seeing their femak freinds tits... It's just that it seems it is no longer a thing that just happens