Spanish Beaches: A Unique Experience Personal Empowerment I have always been one to love the beach, especially European beaches. However, this week was my first encounter with a "nude" beach, two nude beaches actually, talk about a culture shock. In America, I believe we hyper-sexualize the female body specifically, but we also slut shame anyone looking remotely scandalous. I absolutely loved that the beaches in Spain allow nudity because I feel as a woman that it is empowering and taking a step forward from the slut-shaming culture that I am used to at home. I know that the concept of public nudity is not modest and doesn't necessarily fit in with Christian traditions, so I am a bit conflicted in that way. Look, I'm A Tourist In terms of a relational context, talking about the beach
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