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From: greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Beach harassment
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 09:36:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 09:36:09 1986
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It's all so silly!  You folks haven't been to other parts of the world
much have you?  Our European subscribers that are still reading this
(those that haven't laughed themselves to death over how silly
Americans can be!) must be thinking even less of the colonies:

What about topless beaches?  You know, the kind most other, less
puritanical countries have. The kind where a woman goes, removes her
top entirely, and gets a tan, reads a book, swims, whatever.

The times I've approached/been approached by a women on these beaches,
sans breast-covering, there was never the tension we have here.  It was
natural, there was no feeling of "vuneralibilty" or any of that other
stuff.

Funny, 'cause you don't even think "Hey....she's got no top on".  You
just sit and chat, and maybe go out later for a drink, or laugh about
the language difference.

Next time I vacation over there, I'm gonna have a great topic of conversation:
this current silliness.


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[phri rarely makes a guest-account user a spokesperson. Especially not me.]