On Italian beaches it's not common for women to go topless. And those who do are usually foreigners.
sacré bleu
Hmmm....throngs of muslim men leering at them perhaps?
One reason I have read is that muslims shame-attack women in typical western swimwear on the beaches. There have been several crowd riots over this in Mediterranean resorts.
Quit abusing the news forum.
Laz, your services are required. Lazamataz.....
It's not just Muslims. We are not the first society to go off the rails with regard to sexual license. The pendulum always swings back. The cultural context matters. Since the 1960's, the campaign for sexual license has worked hand in glove with a systematic assault on religious commitment. This is a complicated story, but one important thread is the assertion by the sexual revolutionaries that strictures on sexual behavior were nothing but religious dogma and arbitrary rules, basically mumbo jumbo reflecting primitive, pre-modern tribal norms. With the advent of birth control and widespread abortion, that could all be swept away. You could be free to be promiscuous, without guilt and without consequences.
Except that it hasn't worked out that way.
A lot of young women are coming to realize that spending their late teens, 20's and early 30's being handed around as disposable sex toys isn't the path to a fulfilling adult life. At least some of the smarter young men are figuring out the same thing. There is a lot of wreckage and deep unhappiness on display. It turns out that the psychology of male-female relationships, family formation and long-term fulfillment is a lot more complicated and sophisticated than the revolutionaries figured. Life wasn't perfect in earlier eras, but in many respects it was better than life today, our technology notwithstanding. Sooner or later, we will rediscover that the sexes are complimentary, not identical or hostile; that men and women, in a healthy society, generally like and try to help each other; that hotness doesn't last; and that stable commitments are wonderful things.
Our popular culture isn't just a sewer. It's a lie, and sooner or later, the lie will be exposed.
Rediscovering eternal truths is often painful. Our churches bear a heavy responsibility in their abdication of responsibility for serious religious formation, especially for young adults and most especially regarding sexuality. The Catholics aren't the only ones with a clergy that has gone rogue. We are living now in the midst of a great pagan revival, and pagan sexuality is turning out to be as barren and destructive as it ever was. Christians and Jews must now adjust to the fact that we are no longer the dominant culture. But cultural hostility contains an opportunity. The price of witness may be high, but it is all the more important -- and the tests will be ever more explicit and frequent -- for that reason. And this will strengthen commitment; we are now the counterculture, and we must be as bold as the great corrupters have been when they set out to destroy Judeo-Christian sexual morality.
Bottom line, looking around the developed world, all of the advanced materialistic cultures have become sexually liberated, and all of them are below replacement rate in childbirths. Quite a few countries are facing demographic collapse, which they are masking by importing whatever foreigners are close at hand. The future will belong to those who bother to have children. Modern liberals are increasingly childless, or they settle for a single designer baby just as the biological clock runs out. They are bent on self-extinction. The question is who will produce the babies.
Scared of acid attacks?
Cancer?
Shariah. Hijrah. Jihad.
We all did it back in college in the day, but the population demos have changed since then.
