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Would you sunbathe topless?
WOMAN'S OWN
|June 12, 2023
After Christine McGuinness recently teased fans with a cheeky topless photo while on holiday, we ask…
YES
‘It’s the most natural thing in the world’
Natalie Brown, 42, is a writer and lives in Hove, East Sussex, with her husband Rob, 44, and their four children.
This is such a British debate, and you wouldn't find women in Europe, where sunbathing topless is the norm, having the same conversation.
I have always sunbathed topless, both abroad and in the UK, and don't see a problem with it. If men can sit topless on a beach or lie topless around a swimming pool, then why can't women? Why must women's bodies - and breasts - always be sexualised?
This story is from the June 12, 2023 edition of WOMAN'S OWN.
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