Lack of toplessness on beaches

[PYDIMW]

I saw a few topless women in Lanzarote last year. Made sure to keep my phone in my pocket, of course and just enjoyed the view as I was passing through! 😁

[familleplage]

Originally Posted by PYDIMW

I saw a few topless women in Lanzarote last year. Made sure to keep my phone in my pocket, of course and just enjoyed the view as I was passing through! 😁

maybe you saw a friend of mine ? or better said, my lover ? she was there

[PYDIMW]

Haha! That’s brilliant! Well she certainly brightened up my strolls along the coastal path into the town every day if so. So, thank you! 😁

[kel245ed]

I went to three different beaches in France early June. When I was in the south of France in the 1990s I always encountered many topless women, and they were perfectly comfortable on the beach like that. Times have changed.

The good news is, that I saw topless women on all three beaches I visited. About half of the women wear bikinis, and I guess about 1 or 2% are sunbathing topless, mostly women over 40. Also the women over 40 in their bikinis, when they leave the beach they change in public, you might be able to see some bare breasts. They just change, not covering much. Young women come to the beach with their bikinis already under their clothes, and when they leave, they just put on a skirt and a shirt over their wet bathing suits.
I do not have a feeling that this behaviour comes from shame. Practically all young women wear bikinis with tops that cover the full breast, and really, really, small bikini bottoms. They do not bother at all, if you are looking, or even taking a picture. Also interesting is, that when you are in the city center, you see much more cleavage than you will see at the beach. It seems to be just a matter of following fashion.

And I believe that sunbathing with bare breasts, still feels liberating for a lot of women, also the young women. I noticed plenty of women in bathing suits, that loosen the straps of their swimsuits (not just the bikini tops, also the swimsuits) and pull down the swimsuits a bit, and then a bit more, so that you see breasts but just not (or almost) the nipple. I sat next to three – I think – Algerian young women with two fully covered (like in a burkini) and one with a bathing suit. The woman in the bathing suit pulled it down again and again, in a way that she was almost topless. The fully covered women did not seem to care. They were chatting with a lot of laughter. And they pulled up the coverage of their trouser so that their legs would get some sun. I also saw a different woman in burkini with next to her a friend in a really small bikini. Really small, also the top was very small.

In numbers, there are still less women sunbathing topless on a public then there were – even in 2005 for example. But to me it seems to be a matter of fashion. You hear about people discussing fear of being exposed on the internet, or harassed, or influence of Islam. I don’t believe any of that. Women are still comfortable being partly nude, and if more women in their proximity would get topless, they would probably follow suit. Now it is 1% or 2%. For social acceptance of toplessness I guess you would maybe need 15%, not even 20%. If the attention is not on one body, most women do not seem to mind.

I believe it’s not just beach culture that is influencing behaviour. In the 80s and 90s you would see topless women in TV series, advertising (in Europe). And later toplessness would be part of theatre, dance, etc. That trend has reversed. Now (social) media shows you to be exposed, but just not to be topless (no nipples). What you start to see now, is that you read more articles from influencers that it can be healthy to be topfree if you use enough suntan on the sensible spots. And that it should be women’s choice what they wear on the beach. I think if more influencers (women, not men) promote the idea of having freedom to be topless, for one or two years, beach culture might change towards more topless.

A long post perhaps, but my experience in the 90s, has shaped my interest to see topless women, and especially when they don’t mind and everything is casual. That you can read a book on the beach, just looking around a bit, and be happy with the sun, the sand and all those wonderful different breasts that you can see.

[Boqueronplayero]

Just back from Balearic Islands (Ibiza and Menorca), still topless is very common but is going out of fashion a little. Most local young chicks have both pieces and didnt show tits, but was far common in older ones and foreing girls. Of course my friends removed hers tops on almost every beach and also removed bottons on less crowded ones. Its interest how in isolated beach topless is massive, but when get crowded go down. In this kind of beaches, groups of young girls came along... interesting seeing how they stayed with both pieces on until one of them started to sunbathe topless...most of the time sparked by seeing one of our girls doing the same...and spreading to her friends as they see no one was harmed...

[translucent]

Originally Posted by Boqueronplayero

Just back from Balearic Islands (Ibiza and Menorca), still topless is very common but is going out of fashion a little. Most local young chicks have both pieces and didnt show tits, but was far common in older ones and foreing girls. Of course my friends removed hers tops on almost every beach and also removed bottons on less crowded ones. Its interest how in isolated beach topless is massive, but when get crowded go down. In this kind of beaches, groups of young girls came along... interesting seeing how they stayed with both pieces on until one of them started to sunbathe topless...most of the time sparked by seeing one of our girls doing the same...and spreading to her friends as they see no one was harmed...

We just came back from a week on Formentera and that's probably still topless paradise.
Most memorable was a day at Calo des Morts (google for images of the beach). It's a very small beach and we arrived early as our hotel was very close. Great spot in the shade where we could easily spend all day.
First came the the local "older" (35-40) women who went topless without thinking twice about it. But a bit later the instagram-crowd started coming in. Specifically 2 groups of 4 girls, all between 20 and 25.
By the time they arrived, the beach was already pretty full, so they couldn't place their towels together anymore. So they split up a bit.
One of the girls was placing her towel right in front of us, and she had a little nipslip when taking here clothes off. Considering they were Italian (where topless is much less common), I didn't think anything more would happen.

After a while the group of friends went into the water, but the girl in front of me stayed tanning. After a few minutes she decided to remove her top, but the other girls didn't notice. When they came out of the water, it took one of them a while to notice, she shrugged her shoulders and removed her top as well. The 2 others followed shortly after.

In the second group of 4, there was 1 girl who didn't even pack a top. The others all had their bikini already on.
However, when I was in the water, one of them was adjusting her bikini so she wouldn't have tanlines on her shoulders. The bikini kept falling down, and she would constantly flash the entire beach. She didn't seem to mind though (after a while, she just put sunlotion on with here bikini still on, but the both triangles just hanging down and her boobs out). I thought this was very peculiar as why would you not go topless if you don't care about people seeing your boobs. However, this was the queue for the other 2 girls to remove their tops as well. I assume the first one was the "wild one" of the group, and the others first needed to build confidence.

This meant I had 7 young girls and 3 older girls on a beach that maybe fits 40 people. This caused a chain reaction and everyone that entered the beach afterwards, immediatly removed their top. At the end I think about 90-95% of the women were topless or either changed just in public.