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.
I observed this phenomenon several times, most notably during a one week period when I was stranded for about a week at the Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan.
After a couple of days, I picked up a postcard with a picture of the Hotel's swimming pool and a barely camouflaged shot of several topless female guests. I sent it to my high school French teacher with a note reminding her that she once told me I would regret every moment that I screwed around in her class. That day, as I sat in a lounge chair in a tropical resort, surrounded by a horde of semi-naked babes, totally unable to attempt to pick any of them up, and recalling my teacher's earlier warning, I was forced to say to myself, "Self ... you know ... she's right."
My teacher prominently displayed the postcard on her classroom bulletin board from the day she received it until the day she retired.
LOL !!!
I'm sorry to hear about your trip. I thought you should know why there are nude beaches at all. They are for us middle aged women to go there with our middle aged husbands to ogle the young naked men who go to nude beaches thinking that hot young ladies actually go to nude beaches in NJ. (Oh, and our husbands always think there will be hot babes there, but there never are).
without pictures of the offending g-strings and ugh....nudity there is no way to ascertain the merits of this new ordinance....
yeah,...i'm thinking that,...uhm, those,..are authentic.
Enjoy!
;o)
There's a lot of scantily clad eyesores on American beaches, too. There are some sizes that bikinis just should not be made in.
I agree, it's a double standard, especially when you see the boys with shaggy hair.
LOL
She won't be there...
It'll be one 300 lb woman and about 40 nude old men running around....
You've GOT to be kidding. According to the Mayor's aide, they were "pushed" to enact the ban because scanty attire may "provoke temptation and dangerous behavior along the bank of a river,". That is aimed directly at the Muslims. The very wording of the ban screams Islamofascist.
Perhaps because decency is so very passe.
susie
I have to admit that was my first thought. However, I wonder if they have had some incidents that have lead to this. Anyone know? (I'm thinking like men harassing women, or even assaults?)
I see them nearly nude on our beaches here in S. FL. ICK!
susie
Proof positive the world is ending. I'm expecting to hear Gabriel blow his horn anyday now.
Do they let the boys wear makeup??! ;)
susie
My thoughts exactly!
susie
Cheese eating surrender monkeys with really big boobs.
You're bad!
Post 78 and 86 are purty racy, too!
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