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Teenage boys ‘troubled’ by topless Italian sunbather
The new battle of Anzio: a moaning mum takes on the seductive enemy
The silly season is upon us - and here's the story that makes it official. Police in Italy have interviewed a 26-year-old woman who was sunbathing topless on the beach after a mother complained that her two boys, 12 and 14, were "troubled" by the sight of her rubbing sun lotion onto her breasts. For the record, the breasts were described as "ample" and their owner "very attractive".
The incident occurred at Anzio, until now better known as the site of the notorious World War Two battle in which 4,400 Allied troops, the majority of them Americans, died to make Italy a free country where, one day, young women might enjoy the right to relax topless on the beaches.
Back to the present. The young woman, identified only as 'Luisa' and understood to be a fashion store assistant, was indeed enjoying her right to sunbathe topless.
Just along the beach, however, the two boys could hardly contain themselves when she began rubbing sun cream into her chest. Their mother stopped a police beach patrol and demanded that the woman be told to cover up.
The police talked to 'Luisa', who was furious. Still topless, she remonstrated with the officers, claiming her right to sunbathe without a bikini top on, and insisting she had done no harm. A spokesman for the police in Anzio said later: "We have opened a file on committing an obscene act. From what I heard she was very attractive."
Luisa's lawyer, Gianluca Arrighi, told the Daily Telegraph:
"Something like this happening in 2010 is absurd. The fact a file has been opened is compulsory following the complaint - but I can't imagine any judge in 2010 convicting a woman for sunbathing topless.
"Let's be clear my client is tall, brunette and has an ample breast and is therefore going to naturally be sensuous when she applies cream to her chest.
"This may well have attracted the attention of the women's two sons but it should not lead to my client being convicted." ·
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"Troubled" Sons? (translation THEY LOVED IT!!!) Too bad Mum cannot see the human form for what it is instead of something that is obscene
No wonder the boys were excited Mum has taught then this is â??naughtyâ?? best way to peak their interest is to tell them they should not see this.
Did the mother not know where she was taking her boys? Maybe she should have them castrated?
As a teenager I would have been troubled too! I can't see any father complaining about his poor boys being troubled by the sight of a woman putting on suncream. What is this woman teaching her sons about womens bodies?Best thing to do would be ignore.
Mike; my, oh, my!!! Big news...What has the world come to? "Teenage boys "troubled" by women's boobs?"....Jeez!
allan Kessing is misinformed. It is legal for females to go topless in Oregon and California. It is likely legal in other states as well, but I have lived in these two for many years and am absolutely certain of their laws. I am also relatively sure that most U.S. servicemen would much rather fight for the right of women to bare their breasts than for the right of prudes to complain about seeing beauty.
I doubt the US troops died to make it safe for topless sunbathers as that is still not possible on public beaches anywhere in the Benighted States.
Like some of the other writers here, I also love the Italian outlook on life. I'd bet 10 of whatever coin you choose that the complaining mom is from the American Bible Belt.
And that she was most troubled by her sons' "reaction" to the woman. America, get over yourself. And Viva Italia indeed.
What would Silvio B do with the woman?
I don't see she should be criminalised for giving two lads a bit of a hard time.
it is hard to draw a judgement on this case without more evidence, I hope it will run and run in the courts, it will probably be appealed all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights to Sunbathe topless, viva Italia
I love how the people who have been contacted are so stereotypically Italian about how attractive the woman is. :)