Posted on 07/29/2006 5:01:00 AM PDT by Feldkurat_Katz
PARIS (Reuters) - Parisian sunbathers will no longer be allowed to go nude or wear g-strings on the capital's artificial beaches and risk a fine if they are caught baring their breasts or buttocks.
City hall has issued a decree banning indecent clothing to preserve the tranquillity of the sandy beaches created on the banks of the River Seine every summer since 2001.
"People must behave according to good standards to maintain tranquillity, security and public order," the decree said, according to Saturday's edition of Le Parisien. "Notably indecent attire (nude sunbathing, g-strings and toplessness etc) is forbidden."
The city police will be enforcing the rules, and anyone caught baring too much flesh risks a 38 euro (26 pounds) fine.
Defending the decree, city hall sports official Pascal Cherki told Le Parisien that indecent clothing "could have led to temptations and dangerous behaviour on the banks of the river."
Topless sunbathing and g-strings are common on real beaches around France in the summer.
The people who sunbathe in the nude, are the people you don't want to see sunbathing in the nude.
It sounds like the real Paris could get arrested if she just walked through this so-called "Paris" city somewhere in Europe. The world's gone crazy . . . |
Did Muslim agitation and threats make this happen. Or too many fat old Frenchies in speedos?
Boy, is that true. Me and a buddy went to a nude beach at the NJ shore a few years back ..What a bone head mistake that was ..YUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK..NEVER again
Or an Alizee rule.
Topless beach photos of her here. Was this taken at the now de-nudeified beach?
http://www.dailyniner.com/melissat1.shtml
I find some of the comments on this thread hilarious. If France is becoming "islamicized" for restricting topless sunbathing and g-strings in Paris, then the U.S. is a theocratic Muslim dictatorship.
Are they looking for volunteers to measure the amount of exposed flesh?
I'd sure hate to see how the measurements are defined.
Shalom.
This is a great link! I'm leaving for Paris on Monday. I'll have to investigate this for myself.
Exactly, its not about morality, its about the fear of unrest, capitulation.
Huh? Are we talking about to different Americas here?
Nude sunbathing in public parks is common in European cities. I've even seen it in Switzerland, which is ordinarily a pretty conservative place.
France's sudden turnabout has to be a capitulation to the you-know-what religion. Perhaps some mullah threatened to blow up the Louvre if he didn't get his way.
Invariably in Europe these days, "tranquillity, security and public order" are code words for "don't give the Muslims an excuse to riot"
Melissa Theuriau.... Just look at her. A fine specimen of EUropean womanhood. Capable of bearing raising loving many healthy children. But will she do so?
I was wondering how much that played into the decision.
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