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Berlin's public pools will now allow topless swimming for everyone, according to city officials. The latest decision was reached after a lady filed a lawsuit after she was kicked out of an open-air pool in the German capital for topless sunbathing.
The woman, whose identity was withheld, petitioned the senate's office of equal treatment to demand that women be given the option to go topless if they so desired.
Officials acknowledged that they had been the targets of discrimination and said that everyone who visits Berlin's pools now has the right to swim topless.
The city's public pool management company, Berliner Baederbetriebe, modified its dress code as a result of the complaint.
In addition to establishing equal rights for all Berliners, whether they identify as male, female, or non-binary, the Baederbetriebe's judgment also provides legal certainty for the Baederbetriebe's workers, according to Doris Liebscher, head of the ombudsperson's office.
The legislation must now be administered consistently, and no more expulsions or house bans should be given, according to Ms. Liebscher.
Adherents to Germany's freikörperkultur, or "free body culture", will likely be satisfied with the outcome.
The nation is known for its permissive stance on nudity for people of all genders. In 2022, several cities, including Göttingen in Lower Saxony and Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia, allowed topless swimming in public pools.
By the end of 2022, the Lower Saxony state capital of Hannover altered its swimming laws to merely require that "primary sex organs" be covered "in the wet area" of municipal pools.
While sauna culture in the Nordic countries has traditionally adopted a casual approach to nudity, there have also been some unexpected developments regarding the exposure of flesh around the continent.
Authorities in Switzerland repealed an 88-year-old order that prohibited women from swimming topless in the Rhone River and Lake Geneva in 2017, Public pools were not included in the amendment, though.
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