Mini bikini in public
Hello.I would like to ask you if you have any experience with wearing the women's micro bikini, which you offer in your shop (see link below), in public swimming pools and wellness in the Czech Republic?
I lost a bet, and now I'm gonna have to buy something like this. I'd hate to wear them and then get fired for not fitting.
Thank you.Regards K. (name has been anonymised to protect the interviewer)
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Summary: The bikinis referred to cover the private parts and leave the back of the body free, which is commonly accepted at swimming pools. This makes expulsion from the swimming pool extremely unlikely. In the Czech Republic, and apparently not even in Western EU countries, this is not an offence and certainly not a criminal offence.
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First of all, thank you for the great article suggestion. We will send you the bikini of your choice for free. If you send a photo from the front (the face can be blacked out) and from the back, where you are clearly visible in the swimsuit, for this article and the product page of the bikini, we will also send a coupon for the purchase of 500 CZK. And now the answer:
First of all, check the swimming pool's visitor regulations. For example, the Podolí Prague swimming stadium refers to good manners, which can be interpreted very strictly and loosely. It is common for women to swim there without a bra or with a bikini with only a strip on their buttocks. The micro bikinis referred to should therefore pass. If a swimming pool was not specified in the bet, a nude beach is a sure bet. Some swimming pools even have separate sections for nudists, which are sometimes not commonly known about. From a hygiene point of view then, there is no difference in swimming without a swimsuit and with a swimsuit, it is the normal clothing made of non-swimming material that is problematic and this is not the case.
If you were to go completely naked, it may be an offence against public order to cause public outrage cf. § 5 (e) of Act No. 251/2016 Coll. of the Czech Republic. on certain offences as amended. But I believe that even if you went to the swimming pool completely naked the public would not be offended, at most a few prudish individuals, which due to their small number cannot be considered "public" and would not fulfill the characteristics of an offence. After all, the fulfilment of the elements of an offence would be questionable even in the case of nudity in a normal public space such as a street, since in Western countries, for example, naked protests, runs or bike rides are common without offending the public.
The bikinis referred to cover intimate areas and leave a loose background, which is commonly accepted at swimming pools, so the facts of the offence cannot be met. The element of fault (neither intent nor negligence) will not be met because you have lived under the assumption, supported by long experience at swimming pools, that no one can be offended by this act at a swimming pool today. It is quite possible that the objective aspect would not be met either - i.e. that wearing the bikini in question at a swimming pool no longer even has the capacity to cause public outrage in Western countries today (see reasoning above).
With regard to wellness, I believe that the situation will be even looser.
It is certainly not a criminal offence. The offence of rioting does not fulfill the conduct in question at all, cf. § 358 of Act No. 40/2009 Coll.. Penal Code as amended.
I am very pleased with your question. As editor of magazinspotrebitele.cz, some of the 2500 queries since 2012 have made me laugh at the legal naivety of the questioners, which is not the case with you. Your legal query is a first for extasica.com, and the first that made me laugh out loud.
Wishing you a pleasant experience JUDr. Ing. Vladimír Koranda, Ph.D., co-founder of extasica.com, editor of magazinspotrebitele.cz
