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From: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP (Raver Dave)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: To tan or not to tan
Message-ID: <520@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 08:57:57 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-helhe.520
Posted: Wed Mar 26 08:57:57 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 04:51:23 EST
Reply-To: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP (Raver Dave)
Organization: U. of Rochester, EE Dept.
Lines: 37


	After travelling in Europe this summer and visiting many beaches full
of beautiful, all-over deeply tanned people, I have to vote No Tan Lines.

	Maybe it had something to do with people's attitudes on the beaches -
they seemed so relaxed, so untroubled with the usual apprehensions and self-
consciousnesses typical of American beaches.  It was not a big deal for people
to go topless or completely nude in Europe - it's just a body!  Here one would
get arrested.

	One thing I saw that really touched me was a father helping his
daughter windsurf.  She wore only a bikini bottom and had a beautiful all-over
tan (and a body that would make Kim Alexis cry). But her father didn't seem at
all phased by his beautiful daughter wearing virtually nothing on a public
beach - he just helped her get back on that windsurfer until she finally
succeeded.

	MY father would have just about died of embarrassment seeing me
topless.  He would never be able to help me windsurf with such a natural
manner as this father had.  It just never occurred to them that she was
*naked* (almost).

	(Not to mention when I tried windsurfing, I drifted out so far I had
to be rescued by an Australian couple in a paddleboat, but that's another
story...)

						noemi
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"On a souvent besoin de plus petit que soi!"
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Dave Carlson

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