Intolerant Spain bans certain types of clothing

[Louis VI the Fat]

The thread is about burqa & bikini bans, trying to drive home the point that there exists plenty of clothing legislation and regulation. Not to mention, social norms, which are enforced with even greater zeal than legislation - try to make a career if you insist on wearing your penis sheath. (Which, incidentally, is a religious obligation in some societies)
Well done to Andres.


As for Salou's ban on bikinis,...mwah. What, exactly, do the locals expect? If you build up every little village along the Mediterranean with high-rise hotels, god awful restaurants, and a bar on every streetcorner, then an annual horde of Guiris* will descent on you. There seems little point in subsequently trying to discipline these tourists. In effect, the locals are telling them to come, then demanding they be invisible. Pft.


From the Algarve in Potugal, to the Spanish Costas and Islands, to the utterly despoiled French Mediterranean coast, and all the way around to Turkey, the Med has been given over to mass tourism. Only some stretches in Italy and Greece have been somewhat spared, but this is only owing to their having such a long coastline it is near impossible to build it up completely. If it isn't (foreign) tourists, it's the natives and their second homes along the coast.
It is all in such depressing contrast to the more restraint developments along the Atlantic coasts.



* Guiri - derogative term used in Spain to denote a drunk, loud, obnoxious, sunburned Northern European.