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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 21, 2017 14:15:58 GMT
When I lived in a large dense city there was a lot of public sunbathing. One large park lawn was even know as ___ Beach. I never stripped to a bikini, but denitely a top or halter with shorts at the popular area near my house.
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Post by peasapie on Feb 21, 2017 14:34:08 GMT
^^ I was just about to say that in Manhattan it is not uncommon to see a woman or man in a bathing suit sunbathing at places like Central Park or the parks along the Hudson River. It's a schlep to get out of the city and to a beach.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Feb 21, 2017 14:40:12 GMT
When I lived in a large dense city there was a lot of public sunbathing. One large park lawn was even know as ___ Beach. I never stripped to a bikini, but denitely a top or halter with shorts at the popular area near my house. Fair enough, my friend. The fact that I avoid "proper" stripping down to a swimsuit at my own garden wall enclosed pool is entirely my own issue! I have two skylights in my upstairs bathroom, totally private and then some, which will allow me to do the job should I wish to but I still don't tan. QED
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 21, 2017 14:41:44 GMT
I don't think it's that odd. She laying on a blanket in the park. Doesn't seem to out of the ordinary to me. Pretty much my opinion too. Though I am shocked that people still intentionally damage their skin, by sunbaking (much better word than sunbathing). When the weather gets nice I love to go to the park with a book though I would choose to be covered up as to not damage my skin. ETA: No hand slap intended... especially to the Aussies. When we were trying to get sun safety policies, and new uniforms at my daughters school in Cayman, we relied on a lot of research that came from Australia, in order to inform and educate the school on the dangers of the sun. The uniforms were so bad and the sun so strong, and my daughter was so fair, she came home a couple of times sun burnt.. through her school uniform! I know you are all are very aware. Which might explain why it is rarely seen.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 21, 2017 15:23:53 GMT
I wouldn't sunbake/tan anywhere. A very dear friend died of Melanoma at 43. I also live in an area that is at a high altitude that increases the risk of skin cancer. ETA: I call it tanning and have heard "lay out".
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 21, 2017 15:28:59 GMT
Even living on the coast and close to beaches, it wasn't unusual to seeing public tanning in a park back in the day. I don't notice it much anymore and think more of us are fighting over the few shady spots. These days I prefer to be in a chair and under an umbrella when the sun is out. I learned a new expression and have to say I love "sunbake".
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Post by freebird on Feb 21, 2017 16:19:28 GMT
And I will be pissy, nobody should lay out in the sun. Melanoma for the most part can be prevented. Yes, we all know that already, especially in Australia...but that doesn't change what something is called. It's being pissy to claim to Australians don't know the dangers of sun exposure - and to give us a little lecture. I'm sure in general we know more about melanoma than Canadians do. We all know smoking can cause lung cancer too - yet we still call it smoking and not "lung cancering" This isn't a thread about the dangers of lying in the sun - we've had plenty of those in the past. This thread is about lying in a bikini in a public park. this is quite possibly the funniest argument I've read on here in weeks. Aussie meg says "Yeah, we call it sunbaking, what do you guys call it?" Most reply "tanning" "sunbathing" "laying out" @megmc makes a snark (plenty of that around here) about what SHE calls it. "Melanoming". Question asked, question answered. I'm not sure where she was calling aussies idiots or anything. lol. Take a deep breath people. Chill.
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Post by Lindarina on Feb 21, 2017 16:20:31 GMT
It's quite common in the larger cities here, but then again this is Norway. The minute there's a hint of warming sunshine people tend to plunk down sunbathing right away, like iguanas "Forget the beach, Olaf! There's no time to waste! We must bathe in the light of the divine d-vitamin goddess!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 16:25:51 GMT
I don't sunbathe anywhere but it is quite common in Ireland for people to strip off as soon as the sun comes out. I'm not sure anyone uses sunscreen either, we had record temperatures in 2014 and I've never seen so many red people in my life.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 21, 2017 16:36:23 GMT
Even when I've lived in land locked areas, most people would go to a pool. I have lived in several college towns, and when the sun comes out cutoffs and bikinis are pretty common everywhere.
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Post by sueg on Feb 21, 2017 16:38:11 GMT
Even when I've lived in land locked areas, most people would go to a pool. I have lived in several college towns, and when the sun comes out cutoffs and bikinis are pretty common everywhere. Pools here have a limited season, and people are out in the parks much before the season opens and also after it finishes.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 21, 2017 16:55:19 GMT
Even when I've lived in land locked areas, most people would go to a pool. I have lived in several college towns, and when the sun comes out cutoffs and bikinis are pretty common everywhere. Pools here have a limited season, and people are out in the parks much before the season opens and also after it finishes. I'm loving hearing all the international perspectives.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 21, 2017 17:04:33 GMT
--Have not read all the posts, just the first page--
Back in 1992 on my first trip to Switzerland, we were walking in a pretty area of Geneva. The path allowed us to go straight, or behind a few shrubs. We went behind the shrubs, just to see if there were flowers or ?? To our surprise, 4-5 office workers were stripped down and enjoying some sun on their lunch break. IIRC, they had blouses neatly folded beside them.
I'd have NEVER done that in the US....just not part of the culture here.
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Post by scraplette on Feb 21, 2017 17:09:59 GMT
Sunbake - that's a true description.
When I was young and living on Capitol Hill, DC there was a quiet lawn on the side of a famous building we used for sunbathing. It was literally a different century and attitude.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 21, 2017 17:11:42 GMT
Our visit to Munich included a visit to Englisher Garden where members of both sexes were doing nude sunbathing. THAT was mind boggling to us--just over the top. We had read that it happened in that park, but rather taken aback to stroll through a public park and see nude sunbathing.
As an aside, we wondered if the law prohibited both male and female being totally nude on the same blanket. We saw several couples but in each case, one was nude and the other had clothing. Perhaps someone from Munich knows.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 21, 2017 17:14:55 GMT
When I was younger, yes. I lived in the Midwest and water was pretty scarce. A girl had to get her glow on regardless of the water situation. I've been to NYC in Central Park and there can be hundreds of people baking during nice weather days. They aren't anywhere near water. Now I would be much more cautious of the consequences.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 21, 2017 17:19:39 GMT
This makes me recall a fond memory of sunbathing while in college on the grassy hill behind the girl's dorm. We called it Bonner Beach although there wasn't a drop of water in sight. The boys would sit in their windows of the guy's dorm and catcall down to us (nothing offensive; all in fun). We did the same thing in college. Instead of a grassy hill, we would lay out on the astro turf of the putting green outside of our dorm. The boys' dorm was right next to the girls'.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 17:19:51 GMT
We did when we were young. We'd "layout". I'm landlocked in Indiana. Now I don't because I value my skin.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 21, 2017 17:25:39 GMT
We took a boat tour once right past Notre Dam. It was late May and apparently sunbathing was clothing optional in the section we passed. My boys could not figure out why the men wanted to "burn their wees". Years later my son (18 at the time) and I walked past a nude beach in Jamaica. He got an eyeful of what sun does to the "wee" at age 75. I didn't have the heart to mention that it was probably not sun related. More gravity related.
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Post by georgiapea on Feb 21, 2017 17:32:48 GMT
Sunbathing is done where the sun is.
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Post by sueg on Feb 21, 2017 17:44:54 GMT
Our visit to Munich included a visit to Englisher Garden where members of both sexes were doing nude sunbathing. THAT was mind boggling to us--just over the top. We had read that it happened in that park, but rather taken aback to stroll through a public park and see nude sunbathing. As an aside, we wondered if the law prohibited both male and female being totally nude on the same blanket. We saw several couples but in each case, one was nude and the other had clothing. Perhaps someone from Munich knows. I'm in Munich, and the Englischergarten was my first 'exposure' (sorry) to this too. I arrived mid-winter and on one of the early sunny and warm days headed to the gardens to read. I looked up from my book and was a bit shocked! There are specific areas of the gardens where nudity is allowed, and now I just avoid those areas. I don't know whether they are prohibited from being on the same blanket, though I'm not German and don't know all the laws. My experience is that - on the whole - men go nude while women tend only to topless. I do know that actual sex is prohibited - there was a case just this week where a couple were fined for doing that in a park!
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Post by jesq on Feb 21, 2017 19:41:44 GMT
It's very common on college campuses here.
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Post by tracylynn on Feb 21, 2017 19:44:56 GMT
Yes it is. What do you call it? In the US we typically call it sunbathing. Where I am, a girl in a park is a tiny bit unusual. We are hundreds of miles from a proper beach. The lakes around here don't always have a shore line that is conducive to laying out for tanning. And it is too early in the season for the pools to open (which is generally the place people lay out to tan in the summer months) Most people sunbath in their own yards or by a pool. But this time of year someone in a park wouldn't gather much attention from by passing people (other than guys oogling a girl in a bathing suit) This might have already been mentioned down thread, but it's summer down under now, so time of year isn't an issue. OP - No, this would be normal here.
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Post by BoilerUp! on Feb 21, 2017 19:46:04 GMT
..... when you're nowhere near a body of water? There is a lovely park across the road from work with a football/cricket ground and parkland with lots of walking paths. I go for a walk there most days during my lunch break. The other day there was girl (probably in her early 20s) sunbaking in a bikini in the park. We are a good 25 minute drive from the nearest beach. It is not uncommon to see guys sitting in the middle of the football ground sunbaking with their shirts off, but I've never seen a female doing it. Even when I was in my 20s and actually still had a bikini body, there is NO WAY I would sunbake in a park nowhere near water. Weird. I work on a college campus and we see this all the time, so it isn't rare to me.
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Post by hawkeyegal on Feb 21, 2017 20:08:20 GMT
Perfect opportunity to share this lovely photo I took several years ago in Griffith Park. Props to him for being comfortable enough to lay out in a speedo in the middle of LA!
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Post by compwalla on Feb 21, 2017 21:45:35 GMT
When I was in Frankfurt (Germany) the building I worked in was adjacent to a municipal park. Not only did local folks sunbathe in the park during the day away from water, they often did so topless. And for some strange reason, the young soldiers I worked with loved taking lunch in the park when it was nice outside. Hmmm.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 23:10:31 GMT
Perfect opportunity to share this lovely photo I took several years ago in Griffith Park. Props to him for being comfortable enough to lay out in a speedo in the middle of LA! Glad I'm not the only weirdo taking photos of nearly naked people in the park!
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Post by papersilly on Feb 21, 2017 23:28:34 GMT
no. never. i will walk in the sun but i will never just lay there....inviting skin cancer to pick a spot where it wants to start growing and spreading. i did it a few times in hawaii when i was 20 but never again. it's just not that easy to undo the shoe leather.
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Post by gramasue on Feb 22, 2017 0:42:42 GMT
I don't find it odd, really. If she feels comfortable lying on a blanket in a park enjoying the warmth of the sun, then more power to her. Hopefully there aren't any pervy people around who might get the wrong idea. Some people just like to get a head start on their summer tans. I wish I had the nerve to just lie down on the grass and get some rays, but I don't. I also am afraid of the sun, as I'm fair skinned and burn easily. But think how lovely it would be to just lie on a blanket and feel the warmth on your skin, especially after a long cold winter. When I was a kid, our next door neighbour would start in March lying out without a shirt - on the picnic table in his backyard! We could see him our our window and thought it was hilarious. But he always had the best tan.
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Post by hop2 on Feb 22, 2017 1:02:36 GMT
Not too uncommon, but not an all the time thing either. Delta Dawn you bring up fond memories of my sisters and I sun bathing on our back roof ( though with our fair skin baked is more appropriate lol ) I would sit in the corner where there was a sliver of shade. Lol. When we were mid teens my sisters got this idea since it was up on a flat roof in a forest completely enclosed by trees to sunbath topless. I refused. They teased me a bit saying no one can see here at which point I said the Russians with their satellites can see you so now your pictures are printed out in spy bunkers all over Russia. Lol ( and that was pre internet )
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