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Originally Posted by FKKFan
I too must echo the last few posts. Toplessness in Germany is way down since the early 00's...wonder if it has to do w/the advent of the camera cell. And as for FKK, membership too is down (Google it auf Deutsch for various news stories); I've noticed various lakes I used to visit have gotten a little "geriatric" in regards to demographics. Last summer I visited both the Englischer Garten and the banks of the Isar and saw very few attractive young women showing full schwaa in public.
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I haven't been to Europe in a while, but last time I went (early 2000s) some people were importing a bit of the American attitude of nudity=exploitation... which I'm sure the Internet doesn't help, sad to say. Europe was overall way more laissez faire in regards to nudity. Certainly a bit less prude than American metropolitan areas. If attitudes have converged towards American metropolitan levels, well, that is way less prude than heartland areas. On the other hand, I've never seen seas of naked people in Europe; anyone who expects that will be disappointed. It just means that you will go on a beach, and there may be topless bathers or naked bathers, and people won't care. Aside from designated nudist colonies, there are only a few places in America that are like that (more "European" places like South Beach). Europe also has some nudity on TV, though it does seem like less than there used to be.
Ironically, I actually consider interest in nudism in America to be going up right now, including interest from a slightly younger age group than has typically been interested in the past. (Instead of retired, you get some interest from the yuppie crowd and the hippie crowd). If Europe is less inclined to nudism than the past, maybe of all things America will pick up the slack.
