Beaches of negril

[uniquelybrown47]

I've been going to Negril since about 1992. I've always tried to stay on Norman Manley Blvd. I love, love, love the beaches there. For many years I would see women walking down the beaches topless like its nobody's business. When my kids were small I took them and I thought my son was gonna have a problem seeing these women walking down the beach. But to my surprise it didn't even faze him. I guess because there were so many ppl doing it. I even see men walking around with no shorts on. This is the Negril beaches I am used to. Then I didn't go for about 7 years. Now I have been going again for the last 3 years. I don't see anymore of the people walking down the beaches topless. What happened to that? Did people start to get into trouble? I was just wondering if anyone knows.

[Kathy]

What happened? My opinion: the internet... photos, social media, etc. What used to be "nobody's business" is now everybody's business...

[Crusher]

Yeah my wife still sun bathes nude on the beach but she doesn't go around topless its usually back away from the main through fares. Cameras and Facebook make it too easy. Not that she would care but its the principle of the thing.

[Ras Walleye]

How can it be nobody's business if you're walking on a public beach topless or naked. Seems to me that you're making it everyone's business. Sunbathing is one thing but parading your assets up and down the beach is something completely different. I'm no prude but there just aren't that many people that I want to see naked.

[Kathy]

I'm no prude but there just aren't that many people that I want to see naked.

LOL So true.

[uniquelybrown47]

What happened? My opinion: the internet... photos, social media, etc. What used to be "nobody's business" is now everybody's business...

I never really thought about it that way. Yeah, Facebook has just ruined everything,.

[bigga]

Have been going to JA since the late 70's and my take on this question would be that most of the topless strollers where the French and Italians. I have noticed over the years that there are not many coming anymore if any. There use to lots of them but as the years have goin by fewer and fewer at least in Negril. Now thats my take on it and i could be wrong.

[Kathy]

Now thats my take on it and i could be wrong.

and you could be right... I think that's a good point.

[Muzikdoc]

I may be wrong, but I have been told that the locals find it disrespectful.

[jon c.]

But the people imparting the 'it offends the locals' information always seem to be folks who are a bit offended themselves. (Of course, they always take pains to declare that they are not prudes :-).