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Topless sun bathing

  • 24-05-2010 1:58pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭


    I recently went on my second sun holiday. I had never actually saw any women in public areas sunbathing before these holidays. I have been to Florida for family stuff but had never witnessed it on beaches there. I figured ladies would do it at home in the back garden. While I don't have a problem with it I'd love the logic behind why it's ok when abroad and is it only European women that do it?
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    worthless this pics without is thread.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Wife and I spend a fair time aboard, Nice/Cannes, etc in South France for example.
    Its quite a common thing. I could post holiday snaps (of the beach) but due to our proclivities for things uncovered in our state and our attitudes towards the natural body, I can't for fear of breaking the forum rules.

    6 Billion+ creatures in the world called "humans" - what's the big fuss over!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Would this be a sort of a nudey thing, Father? Down with this sort of thing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Biggins wrote: »
    Wife and I spend a fair time aboad, Nice/Cannes, etc in South France for example.


    Nothing better the being irish in Nice your treated really well bye everyone love the place.... More so i live sitting on a certain road and watching the pretty french ladys walk bye... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, but I'm perfectly happy to do so on a nude beach.

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    kylith wrote: »
    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, but I'm perfectly happy to do so on a nude beach.

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    Dublin 8? nope,it's not me anyway!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    kylith wrote: »
    the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    You've just ruined the ending of the sex ed. book I was reading.
    Thanks.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Nothing better the being irish in Nice your treated really well bye everyone love the place.... More so i live sitting on a certain road and watching the pretty french ladys walk bye... :D

    Love the place ourselves. Especially the old french quarter.
    Hope to retire there.

    Back on topic. We need in some cases to drop our inhibitions and (for some) get over our self-esteem issues.
    Only then can we start to move on in some ways.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I've sunbathed topless while away, and here. Theres a quiet enough beach near where I live that I'd use if I wanted to lie out for a while. Also in my back garden.

    In Ireland people aren't really used to seeing tits on full display on the beach. So going topless is viewed as either a novelty or a 'disgrace'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    worthless this pics without is thread.

    thanks alot YODA !!!

    .... made me think and read it twice !! (two things I dont like doing)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    I really think a lot of people have an idealized version of topless bathing in their heads comprised of Swedish swimsuit models and Adriana Lima.

    Instead, you're far more likely to get something like this.

    I'm glad topless bathing isn't that popular (at least here), it sure as hell ain't what you think it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    kylith wrote: »
    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, but I'm perfectly happy to do so on a nude beach.

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    Think you're puttin the cart before the horse on that one.

    As Doug Stanhope says, "If you want us to stop looking, then take your top off!". We look because its a rareity here. If it were more normal we'd look less.

    To flesh Stanhope's point he says what if women wore gloves constantly? Would you ogle her bare hands?
    Do they have "facey" bars in Muslim countries? ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    I recently went on my second sun holiday. I had never actually saw any women in public areas sunbathing before these holidays. I have been to Florida for family stuff but had never witnessed it on beaches there. I figured ladies would do it at home in the back garden. While I don't have a problem with it I'd love the logic behind why it's ok when abroad and is it only European women that do it?

    What part of Florida did you go to? I used to live in South Beach, and there were topless women everywhere - locals, American tourists, and foreigners.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Biggins wrote: »
    6 Billion+ creatures in the world called "humans" - what's the big fuss over!

    This means Moar Diddies in posh-speak right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    kylith wrote: »
    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, but I'm perfectly happy to do so on a nude beach.

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    get over yourself love!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    kylith wrote: »
    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, .

    Ahh go on. You know well who they'd be, the dirty buggers.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    liah wrote: »
    I really think a lot of people have an idealized version of topless bathing in their heads comprised of Swedish swimsuit models and Adriana Lima.

    Instead, you're far more likely to get something like this.

    I'm glad topless bathing isn't that popular (at least here), it sure as hell ain't what you think it is.


    What's it like in Canada , I'd say you could lose an eye in the colder parts.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    liah wrote: »
    I really think a lot of people have an idealized version of topless bathing in their heads comprised of Swedish swimsuit models and Adriana Lima.

    sums up cannes sunbathing pretty well, i didn't even know topless sunbathing was a big thing over there till i went, some absolute stunners :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    liah wrote: »
    I'm glad topless bathing isn't that popular (at least here), it sure as hell ain't what you think it is.

    Barceloneta beach begs to differ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    kylith wrote: »
    Funnily enough I wouldn't sunbathe topless in my garden because I wouldn't know who'd be perving out windows, but I'm perfectly happy to do so on a nude beach.

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    It's mostly Irish guys around the resorts though. The beaches aren't nude beaches there either. One was but didn't go to it. The girlfriend was fine having her tits on show but not down there. As a straight guy talkin tits are attractive if they are on show in a public place I'd look...not leer but long enough to form an opinion. e.g Dublin girl with fake boobies not so great


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    stovelid wrote: »
    This means Moar Diddies in posh-speak right?
    LOL :pac:

    Take a walk on the pebbled beach of Nice some time.
    That much mammary glands to be seen, its like staring at wallpaper after a while.
    Its like "meh!" and then you see something else just as nice, car, building, place...etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Was out Kayaking from Killiney beach out to Dalkey island on Saturday.. Loads of the nudie men swimming off the rocks there....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Theres a quiet enough beach near where I live that I'd use if I wanted to lie out for a while. Also in my back garden.

    You have a quiet enough beach in your back garden?

    Fckin awsum!! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Abigayle wrote: »
    I've sunbathed topless while away, and here. Theres a quiet enough beach near where I live that I'd use if I wanted to lie out for a while. Also in my back garden.

    In Ireland people aren't really used to seeing tits on full display on the beach. So going topless is viewed as either a novelty or a 'disgrace'.


    Pics or GTFO :)

    I've always wanted to say that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    kylith wrote: »

    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    Unlike, say, Italy and Turkey, and other meccas of male discretion?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Have been on beaches before with my wangers out but wouldn't do it here. I don't think I would if I were where I knew people, I imagine I would feel too self conscious or make them feel the same way too. Can't blame them, tbh :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    liah wrote: »
    Instead, you're far more likely to get something like this.

    God remember seeing her topless for the first time,
    I must have been about six
    the empire strikes back I think it was

    http://fightingcommiesforhealthinsurance.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jabba_hutt-sideshow-l.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    There's a downside to nude beaches: you get the rough with the smooth. I was at one in Denmark (Dronningmølle) back in the mid-90s, and everyone was walking around nude. Some pretty young woman ... and her 60-ish parents. Yeesh ... :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just thought of a comforting fact.. There's about 6-7 billion tits in the world.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    Ruu wrote: »
    Would this be a sort of a nudey thing, Father? Down with this sort of thing!

    Careful now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Funkfield wrote: »
    Think you're puttin the cart before the horse on that one.

    As Doug Stanhope says, "If you want us to stop looking, then take your top off!". We look because its a rareity here. If it were more normal we'd look less.

    To flesh Stanhope's point he says what if women wore gloves constantly? Would you ogle her bare hands?
    Do they have "facey" bars in Muslim countries? ;)
    Oh, I agree with you. I'd like to be able to lie in the park and sunbathe topless, but I'd have to put up with dozens of lads staring, and then I'd be arrested for indecency. As a culture we have an obsession with nudity (I blame the church for preaching that nakedness and sex is dirty and shameful) that's not going to go away until a large portion of the population grow the fuk up and cop themselves on. Of course it won't change until breasts are not a novelty, and that would be best achieved by breasts being everywhere, unfortunately it's still illegal here AFAIK, so it's unlikely to get less perved upon until that changes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I just thought of a comforting fact.. There's about 6-7 billion tits in the world.

    A lot more than that, I would say :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    Biggins wrote: »
    LOL :pac:

    Take a walk on the pebbled beach of Nice some time.
    That much mammary glands to be seen, its like staring at wallpaper after a while.
    Its like "meh!" and then you see something else just as nice, car, building, place...etc.

    Yeah Cannes is unreal for boobs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I just thought of a comforting fact.. There's about 6-7 billion tits in the world.

    And Jason Byrne ( the comedian ):)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Biggins wrote: »
    Love the place ourselves. Especially the old french quarter.
    Hope to retire there.

    The French quarter of a city in France :pac:

    I love this time in May when all the Nordic exchange students flock to the park and let the puppies out for the last few weeks before going home. There's the inevitable fat lass from Hull in the mix but that can't be helped.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Indubitable


    I just thought of a comforting fact.. There's about 6-7 billion tits in the world.

    Tits as in mammary glands or tits as in complete fools?
    I would guess around 7 billion mammary glands and around 4 billion fools


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    More topless sunbathaing for hot birds with good bangers, less going outside for ugly birds.
    Who's with me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    kylith wrote: »
    I can only imagine that the reason that it's ok in Europe and not here is a) we don't get the weather for it and b) Irish lads react to breasts like they're some amazing mystical thing and, unlike European guys, can't keep their bloody mouths shut and accept the fact that the female of the species has mammary glands.

    Well if you just whipped them out a bit more often from underneath your cardigan then all of us Irish lads would see that in all probability they are far from amazing.......hence shattering the myth. Then Irish women could walk around towns naked and not get bothered.

    Write that down.

    :pac:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    punchdrunk wrote: »
    God remember seeing her topless for the first time,
    I must have been about six
    the empire strikes back I think it was

    http://fightingcommiesforhealthinsurance.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jabba_hutt-sideshow-l.jpg

    I was like ...leia....is that you.....damn jabba :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I have sunbathed topless before but wouldn't now as the skin in that area gets damaged very easily. I would do it naked if they ever invented adequate protection from the sun but at the moment all they do is stop you from getting burned.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The French quarter of a city in France :pac:
    The OLD...

    If you know Nice, there is two modern parts to it, either side of the ancient fort on a hill and there is an old section. :p

    See here for a few safe pics of one part: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/album.php?albumid=571


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    WindSock wrote: »
    Have been on beaches before with my wangers out but wouldn't do it here. I don't think I would if I were where I knew people, I imagine I would feel too self conscious or make them feel the same way too. Can't blame them, tbh :cool:
    I'm the same. Have no problem with it on hols but wouldnt dare do it over here in case i met one of my Mams neighbours :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    stovelid wrote: »
    Unlike, say, Italy and Turkey, and other meccas of male discretion?

    I wouldn't pass comment on those lads because I don't know what they're like.

    Does Turkey even have topless beaches, what with it being a Muslim country?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Biggins wrote: »
    The OLD...

    If you know Nice, there is two modern parts to it, either side of the ancient fort on a hill and there is an old section. :p

    See here for a few safe pics of one part: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/album.php?albumid=571

    INVALID BOOBS DETECTED


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    When the weather is good enough, I walk around the back garden bollock naked, with my lad & nuts swinging freely in the breeze. It's very liberating, though sometimes I feel self conscious as I think the plants are staring at me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    kylith wrote: »
    I wouldn't pass comment on those lads because I don't know what they're like.

    You implied that Irish men had less self-control than other European men which I don't think is the case.

    And I don't buy the argument that a more relaxed attitude to public nudity would stop people ogling attractive bodies either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    When the weather is good enough, I walk around the back garden bollock naked, with my lad & nuts swinging freely in the breeze. It's very liberating, though sometimes I feel self conscious as I think the plants are staring at me.


    Their not they are laughing at you:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    When the weather is good enough, I walk around the back garden bollock naked, with my lad & nuts swinging freely in the breeze. It's very liberating, though sometimes I feel self conscious as I think the plants are staring at me.

    It's only sexual harassment if they have stalks?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Biggins wrote: »
    The OLD...

    If you know Nice, there is two modern parts to it, either side of the ancient fort on a hill and there is an old section. :p

    See here for a few safe pics of one part: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/album.php?albumid=571

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    When the weather is good enough, I walk around the back garden bollock naked, with my lad & nuts swinging freely in the breeze. It's very liberating, though sometimes I feel self conscious as I think my parents are staring at me.

    FYP :pac:


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