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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This is the sort of behaviour that is suppressing topless sunbathing in Germany and Scandanavia, where it used to be common. People who think an influx of ultra-conservative men doesn't affect the social climate of the host country are kidding themselves.
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The topless sunbathing that used to be the norm in Northern Europe was/is almost entirely free of sexualization or voyeurism.
Social insouciance towards public nudity is an interesting medium between total misogyny and stigmatization of women's bodies, and the kind of bacchanalian pornographic display that you see at a Florida Spring Break Party.
A society's place on that rough spectrum is probably a good litmus of cultural egalitarianism and liberalism.