Women on spanish beaches topless

While younger women in France, Italy and Germany are abandoning topless sunbathing it's not the case in Spain, a new survey of thousands of women across Europe has revealed. The survey by polling agency Ifop for the Vie Healthy website showed that while fewer Frenchwomen are likely to remove their bikini tops these days compared to previous generations, it's a very different scenario in Spain. While only 19 percent of French women under 50 have gone topless the percentage shoots up to 48 percent for Spanish women, putting them top of the podium for Europe. In the UK percentage of topless sunbathers was 19 percent, more than the 15 percent in Italy.

Other nationalities might gawk at topless sunbathing, but the Spaniards are mostly indifferent. What a country, eh? Okay, I realise topless sunbathing is not exclusive to Madrid, but there is where I have most of my experience — right in the city!! Most weekdays I go to the gym in hopes of staving off the effects of my sedentary existence in front of the computer. But my gym also has an grassy, private outdoor sunbathing area just outside the window of the exercise room.

I would never do that. What kind of a woman is this? I wish I had the nerve to do that. I did it.

I was searching for beach resorts near Barcelona and came across a post that suggested that topless beaches are the norm in Spain. Did I misunderstand or not? Should we expect to see women with no tops on at the beach, or is this restricted to certain areas. If so, which ones?