>>Maybe my persepctive is different because I’ve spent time on European beaches where many women (including my wife) go topless, and people don’t give it a second thought. American beaches are remarkably covered up, in comparison (with a few notable exceptions, like South Beach). <<
I’ll skip taking Europe as an example. Thanks.
You are free to be parochial. It is a free country, after all. But, having seen three generations of women in a family all at the beach topless, and nobody giving it a second thought, I don't consider it a bad example to consider.
Maybe if we stopped stressing out so much about sex and nudity, things would go easier for us as a society.