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City allows everyone to go topless in swimming pool - after heated argument

2022-04-29T03:12:00.047Z


City allows everyone to go topless in swimming pool - after heated argument Created: 04/29/2022, 05:02 By: Martina Lippl Topless in the swimming pool - in Göttingen this is possible on certain days. But the trousers must remain on (symbolic photo). © Sven Hoppe/dpa Bare female breasts in the swimming pool caused trouble in Göttingen last summer. Now the city allows topless for everyone. Götti


City allows everyone to go topless in swimming pool - after heated argument

Created: 04/29/2022, 05:02

By: Martina Lippl

Topless in the swimming pool - in Göttingen this is possible on certain days.

But the trousers must remain on (symbolic photo).

© Sven Hoppe/dpa

Bare female breasts in the swimming pool caused trouble in Göttingen last summer.

Now the city allows topless for everyone.

Göttingen – Men are always allowed to splash about in the swimming pool topless.

And women?

The bathing season in Göttingen starts with something new.

All bathers are now allowed this textile freedom.

From May 1st, all bathers without upper body clothing can visit swimming pools in Göttingen - but only on weekends!

Swimming without a bikini top is officially allowed in the swimming pool on Saturday and Sunday.

But the pants have to stay on.

The city's sports committee spoke out in favor of this on Tuesday,

House ban for topless swimming

After an incident in the summer, the topic had been hotly debated for months.

A woman is said to have been thrown out of the Eiswiese bathing paradise in Göttingen in August because she had taken off her bikini top.

The lifeguard knew no mercy and imposed a house ban.

According to the bathing regulations, bare breasts are not allowed.

That made waves: the initiative "Same Breasts for All" and the Göttingen Women's Forum got involved.

Demanded free choice of swimwear.

The aim of the campaign: All genders should be able to show their upper bodies without clothes on an equal footing.

Where men are allowed to show their upper bodies, all people should be allowed to do so.

Outdoor pool allowed but topless for everyone

Apparently that went too far for the city in Lower Saxony.

There is a compromise.

The "veiling requirement" in the public swimming pools in Göttingen has been lifted, but only on Saturday and Sunday.

According to the

Göttinger Tageblatt

, the test phase is scheduled to last until August 31st.

The regulation applies to all swimming pools operated by the Göttingen Sports and Leisure Society, said the spokesman.

In the bathing paradise Eiswiese and also in three outdoor pools in the city.

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In Munich, women have officially been allowed to sunbathe and swim topless on the Isar since 2021.

Sunbathing is allowed in the baths, but swimming is not - at least at the discretion of the lifeguards.

You should leave it at that, said CSU city councilor Alexandra Gassmann: “A regulation is not necessary.

You should trust the local staff.” 

Source: merkur

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