Photography on nude/topless beaches

Planning to go to Tenerife soon. Any etiquette issues with taking photos of topless women on the beach? Is it normal to do? Best to ask first?

 

Not without a person's permission. Doing so without it is one of the reasons why you might not find as many women prepared to be topless than say ten years ago.

 

Would it be normal to just walk up and say, "Mind if I take a photo?"

 

My wife, Baby Doll, loved her first time we went to South Beach. She was shy at first, but later was comfortable talking to guys topless. I do not believe any woman would like to have her photograph without permission regardless of the state of dress or undress.

https://i.redd.it/61os4b1957121.png

 

Might be acceptable in Spain, but not in the USA.

 

great pic of her

 

Certainly on some beaches in France, you would be thrown off the beach, possibly quite aggressively

 

It's not acceptable in France or Spain or anywhere I've been. Women don't tend to sunbathe topless or nude in the hope that some guy is going to come along and take photos, with or without asking.

 

There is an unwritten rule on many nudist beaches that you don't photograph anyone without their permission.

Families or couples taking photos of each other might be tolerated in some places, but even then you are probably photographing people in the background unintentionally, so best avoided.

 

Taking photos of other people at a (nudist) beach without consent is probably the best way to test out how your camera can stand being trampled down in the sand or thrown into the sea.
If the original question us really serious, i wonder from where the op gets such a strange impression of customs and conventions in Europe.

 

Definitely not.