Topless No Longer in Vogue (Sorry Seacat!)

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Mon Dieu! Can it be true? The French no longer in love with bare breasts?

"Sexual intercourse began in 1963," the poet Philip Larkin said of the revolution that liberated women and changed the world. And nowhere was that revolution more on display, literally, than on the beaches of the French Riviera, where the first bare breasts appeared just a year later.

Scandale! Some local mayors prohibited it, and the Interior Ministry declared it illegal. But as anyone who has visited a French beach in the last 40 years will know, public opinion was stronger than the bureaucrats' protests. Topless bathing became the norm and France the spiritual home of the monokini. Nearly half a century later, however, the French have fallen out of love with naked breasts on the beach.

Scandale! An Ifop poll last year revealed that 24% of women were perturbed by toplessness on beaches — 37% when you added thong-clad buttocks — and 88% described themselves as pudique (which carries a range of meanings from modest to prudish). Is it a conservative backlash, a reaction to health scares, or simply a dictate of fashion?

Rest of the story here.

I know SeaCat, our resident proponent of the a-la-natural look, will be saddened by this news.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ah tol' yer them cheese eatin' surrender monkeys was degenerate! When they don' think boobs is fashion-a-bobble anymore, they is def'nitely goin' to Hell inna han' baskit.

 

[Handley_Page]

Typical of the Froggies, that.
Export something nice then trap it off.

Write to your Member of Parliament /Representative/ Senator, whatever-you-call-it and protest !

 

[bronzeage]

Mon Dieu! Can it be true? The French no longer in love with bare breasts?

Rest of the story here.

I know SeaCat, our resident proponent of the a-la-natural look, will be saddened by this news.

"Sexual intercourse began in 1963," the poet Philip Larkin said of the revolution that liberated women and changed the world. And nowhere was that revolution more on display, literally, than on the beaches of the French Riviera, where the first bare breasts appeared just a year later.

It may be that the women who first bared their breasts in 1964 are still doing it.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Uh-huh, and that's why the young chickie-poos won't. Generation gap and all that. Sheesh!

 

[R. Richard]

The following is a link to a Sun article on the subject.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3096525/Boyfriends-want-girls-to-cover-up.html

Apparently, 56% of British men don't want their lady topless in public. However, 89% want other ladies topless in public.

Theres a picture in the article, showing a topless lady reclining on the beach. She got a nice set of chabongas, but one of the comments says that she should leave her breasts bare and cover her porko stomach.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

Lol awww bummer. This certainly made me sad...

 

[WRJames]

There was a court decision in New York State almost twenty years ago that made topless legal, but it has never really caught on.

Now, strangely enough, women who look really provocative in a bikini, ones with a lot of cleavage, full breasts, don't look that good topless, at least to my taste. Its a bit overwhelming, and they tend to droop.