Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 17 Location: East Midlands
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:01 am Post subject:
Concern wrote:
HUbbette wrote:
I live in the US, but travel quite a bit. Many years ago, in the late '70's I spent a school year in France (Montpellier, close to the Med.). Topless women were very common on the beach, and no one thought anything of it, except for the horny American students. I knew it had become culturally ingrained and totally accepted as a norm because I often saw older women topless with their daughters and/or granddaughters together with their families No one every thought anything of it...
Today, when I travel (some 30 years later), it is the same. But it is not only France, this is accepted also in Spain, Italy, Greece and many other countries. For your next vacation, stay close to home and visit the French Caribbean (Martinique or Guadeloupe), and you will see what I'm talking about.
I understand where you are coming from because, having been raised in the USA, I know that our culture is much less tolerant. Just look at our history of the pilgrams and puritans. Instead of having topless beaches, our country tends more towards violence. Just compare the crime rate in the USA to Spain. Maybe that's why you are concerned about sexual predators and your niece.
Anyway, I should'nt rant about politics. Bottom line, if it didn't bother your in-laws, you shouldn't let it bother you. Just remember "when in Rome,..."
Oh, by the way, I'm willing to bet that this was your first time on a Southern European beach?
FINALLY!!! We have one or two posts that makes good sense. Instead of those other "Look, breasts are natural. What's the problem?" posts. Thanks Hubbette for your enlightening post, makes me feel a whole lot better. I was starting to feel like a loony-bin after reading the other replies.
I can understand why you were upset, but as you've probably found out now, it's quite common to see topless females of all ages (including teenagers) on beaches in Europe, in fact it's not rare e.g. in France and Italy, to see them swimming and sunbathing completely nude. Men as well, of course. It's just accepted. Hope this is helpful.
Luv,
Puddy.
with regards to your husband getting turned on by his niece technically your husband could probably have hit that (depending on insest laws in spain) i know where i live (the UK) it would not be illegal for a man to sleep with his brothers daughter (providing she is atleast 16) ..however in spain the age of consent is 14 so depending on the incest laws there he may infact of been able to act on his arrowsal and it would of been legal
truth is a fair amount of guys would have been turned on by that
i remember saying something similar to what i'm about to say now in another recent topic but i am 21 and in the past i have been tempted by girls who look 14/15 before, and marlena is right when she says it is not uncommon to men to be attracted to girls of those age but very few who would admit it. I did come accross an anonomous survey which had been published _ once where a group of random men were asked thier feelings to children who had not hit puberty yet and even i was shocked by how many in that survey admitted attraction, they didn't do one for the older ones (12+) but the numbers who find them attractive is bound to rise the older they get. and I am actually quite surprised your husband admitted to it, I don't think you should be angry with him because of it, atleast he was honest
and i notice you were conerned he was a paedophile. paedophillia is a sexual attraction to prepubescent or peripubescent children. a 14 year old girl has gone past those stages ...unless she has some sort of rare medical condition.
I'm finding it hard to believe any of this, for one simple reason.
I live in southern Spain, in fact the most southerly part.
I know what the weather was like down here this March, and there is no way in a million years that there was a crowded beach, much less people on it topless. If Concern's family did go on the beach, they would have been practically alone, and very uncomfortable in the winds and rain we had down here this year.
In March, the beaches are still a mess because the local authorities don't go and do their annual clear-up until late April, early May. Even now there are very few people on the beach, and the weather is getting a lot warmer as spring sets in.
i am 16 and my sister is 17, and when we go on holiday my sister isnt always sure that she should get her breats out for tanning. however last holiday my sister and i went to the beach and sat in a quiet place out of sight and i persuaded her to take her bikini top off. he large 36 C breats hung down before me, and she asked my to put suntan cream on her as she relaxed.
i got the cream in my hands and started to massage the cream into her breasts moving ym hands all over her nipples.
this excitment gave me an erection, and made my sister wet, so decided to sunbath completely naked and massage cream into eachothers body.
I'm finding it hard to believe any of this, for one simple reason.
I live in southern Spain, in fact the most southerly part.
I know what the weather was like down here this March, and there is no way in a million years that there was a crowded beach, much less people on it topless. If Concern's family did go on the beach, they would have been practically alone, and very uncomfortable in the winds and rain we had down here this year.
In March, the beaches are still a mess because the local authorities don't go and do their annual clear-up until late April, early May. Even now there are very few people on the beach, and the weather is getting a lot warmer as spring sets in.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: Beaches in Spain
elainefr wrote:
I live in southern Spain, in fact the most southerly part.
I know what the weather was like down here this March, and there is no way in a million years that there was a crowded beach, much less people on it topless. If Concern's family did go on the beach, they would have been practically alone, and very uncomfortable in the winds and rain we had down here this year.
In March, the beaches are still a mess because the local authorities don't go and do their annual clear-up until late April, early May. Even now there are very few people on the beach, and the weather is getting a lot warmer as spring sets in.
In Benidorm over the Easter week last month (i.e. March 2008), the sun was shining, although there was a bit of wind at itmes, the beaches were spotless with crowds of people, some women topless(!), and some people were even swimming.
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