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Swedish City Legalises Topless Bathing at Public Pools

  • 30-06-2009 02:27AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭


    http://www.inquisitr.com/27519/swedish-city-legalizes-topless-bathingat-public-swimming-pools/
    Sweden’s third largest city has legalized topless bathing…at public swimming pools. The City of Malmö decision after initially being asked to vote on a motion that would force women to cover up after a feminist group started appearing at pools topless. Instead they voted in an amended version that said that “everybody should wear bathing suits,” leaving the door open for topless bathing as long as the woman was wearing a bottom part of a bikini.
    A council spokesman told The Local that “We don’t define what bathing suits men should wear so it doesn’t make much sense to do it for women. And besides, it’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts.
    The leader of the feminist group behind the law said that “It’s a question of equality. I think it’s a problem that women are sexualized in this way. If women are forced to wear a top, shouldn’t men also have to?”


    +1 Sweden. They got it right.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭devereaux17


    oh the swedes, they just love their liberalism dont they????

    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭swingking


    ryanair still fly to Stockholm, right? :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭poms


    go sweden...let it all hang out :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    More turnips on show for the swedes then.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭rororoyourboat


    Makes sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    I can see this law backfiring if it was Ireland.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 bounceball


    thread fails without pics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭gandhi123


    giggidy;)


    /orders flight to Sweden


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Seraphicblue


    you people seem to be forgetting something rather important
    those who use public swiming pools tend to be rather older and larger than your minds are imagining.
    good luck, you'll need it.

    Also,
    Would you like to see Yore Ma at the pool topless?
    I think not. And neither would we.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?

    Who cares ?


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


    you people seem to be forgetting something rather important
    those who use public swiming pools tend to be rather older and larger than your minds are imagining.
    good luck, you'll need it.

    Also,
    Would you like to see Yore Ma at the pool topless?
    I think not. And neither would we.

    Apparently the obesity rate in Sweden is around 9.7%.

    So, that's like.. 8 million of these. And just under a million Mary Harney's.

    The odds are in favour, imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Seraphicblue


    are you willing to take that chance?
    actually, after that pic I am, one ticket to Malmo please


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    it’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    liah wrote: »
    Apparently the obesity rate in Sweden is around 9.7%.

    So, that's like.. 8 million of these. And just under a million Mary Harney's.

    The odds are in favour, imo.

    You are scoring major points today !! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    oh the swedes, they just love their liberalism dont they????

    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?

    Bingo. You don't move to Sweden if you're offended by naked skin.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,581 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    oh the swedes, they just love their liberalism dont they????

    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?
    Who cares ?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    swingking wrote: »
    ryanair still fly to Stockholm, right? :pac:

    Well they fly to Ryanair's version of Stockolm, Nykoping:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Stockholm-Skavsta+Airport,+Nyk%C3%B6ping+Municipality,+Sweden&daddr=stockholm&geocode=&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=58.770425,16.947784&sspn=0.060877,0.222988&ie=UTF8&z=9

    There are regular buses that take about 90 minutes though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?
    Sweden and Denmark are the least religious countries in the world and I'd like to keep it that way.

    Because it means moar boobage! ftw :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Swedish women rarely sun bath topless anyway so this law will make little difference.

    FYI go to the beaches if you wanna see the hotties.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Well it's only fair isn't it. It is blatant discrimination to allow men to walk around topless but to force women to wear tops.

    Strange thing is, it seems to be mostly women who are against this equality. Why though? It's not like we want to force all women to walk around topless, just that those who want to should be given the choice.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topfreedom (not safe for retarded prudes...fffs it's a breast. big deal.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Acacia


    I think that's great. Breasts are perfectly natural, don't see any problem with having them uncovered. Wish they'd bring a similar law here- on hot days, I'd have the ol' top off myself, no problem. But Ireland is too prudish and backward for anything like that to happen.

    I don't get the big hang-up about nudity in general.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Pop's Diner


    i wonder how the massive Muslim population in Malmo feel about this?

    They can think what they like. Sure aren't they, rather than being the voice of morality, the ones making notable additions to statistics when it comes to violent and sexual crime in Sweden (esp in places like Malmo which have high Muslim populaiton)?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    They can think what they like. Sure aren't they, rather than being the voice of morality, the ones making notable additions to statistics when it comes to violent and sexual crime in Sweden (esp in places like Malmo which have high Muslim populaiton)?

    Then you don't know what you are talking about.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    It's good that they do this, all this covering up of bodies etc, leads to insecurities and such. We all have bodies, don't get how poeple can be offended by showing some skin!
    People become afraid to not cover up becuase they are not one of the tiny amount with perfect bodies, just not on!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    K-9 wrote: »
    I can see this law backfiring if it was Ireland.


    no vs ireland..... but close enough in some areas



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Côte d'Azur ftw :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    It's good that they do this, all this covering up of bodies etc, leads to insecurities and such. We all have bodies, don't get how poeple can be offended by showing some skin!
    People become afraid to not cover up becuase they are not one of the tiny amount with perfect bodies, just not on!
    Yes because we all want to see fat ugly women strip off. :rolleyes:
    Sometimes it's better to keep the status quo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    Acacia wrote: »
    I don't get the big hang-up about nudity in general.

    Its the "hang-downs" is the problem!


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