{"id":11643,"date":"2014-10-30T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2014-10-30T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T12:09:40","slug":"why-french-women-no-longer-sunbathe-topless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-french-women-no-longer-sunbathe-topless\/","title":{"rendered":"Why French Women No Longer Sunbathe Topless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/103014_1206_WhyFrenchWo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>France has long been known for its custom of topless sunbathing. It&#8217;s not as frequent anymore and Morwenna Ferrier looked into why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concerns about skin cancer have made the activity seem less appealing.<\/li>\n<li>Going topless used to be seen as a sign of class and female liberalization. These days however with mainstream culture increasingly &#8220;pornified&#8221; it seems less innocent.<\/li>\n<li>Sunbathers also have to deal with photos of them being immortalized on the internet through social media.<\/li>\n<li>Breasts have, in some cases, become political statements. The group Femen uses them to attract attention to various causes, and this can make stripping on the beach seem like a political statement.<\/li>\n<li>And then there&#8217;s the lure of traditional romance. One writer notes that covering up &#8220;makes uncovering them for a lover more interesting&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the countries where topless sunbathing is still popular, what French commentators have to say, and why gravity is a significant concern over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/fashion-blog\/2014\/jul\/28\/real-reason-french-women-have-stopped-sunbathing-topless\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/fashion-blog\/2014\/jul\/28\/real-reason-french-women-have-stopped-sunbathing-topless\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has long been known for its custom of topless sunbathing. It&#8217;s not as frequent anymore and Morwenna Ferrier looked into why: Concerns about skin cancer have made the activity seem less appealing. Going topless used to be seen as a sign of class and female liberalization. These days however with mainstream culture increasingly &#8220;pornified&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/103014_1206_WhyFrenchWo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11645,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions\/11645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}