Just strings attached: Taiwanese Girl fined for βlewdβ swimsuit at the Filipino resort island Boracay
The tourist was fined for wearing nearly non-existent bikini: ‘It was literally a string‘
A Taiwanese tourist was fined 2,500 pesos ($50) for wearing a bikini in Boracay that one police official said was “literally a string”.
The traveler, believed to be in her early 20s, caused a stir on social media with her bold swimwear choices while soaking up the sun on the popular tourist island of Boracay.
“Several residents and tourists took photos of her because of what she was wearing,” Maj. Baylon told the Inquirer. “It was literally nothing except for a tiny string.”
Photographs of the ultra-skimpily-attired tourist went viral on social media, dividing netizens between those who did not see anything wrong with her sartorial choice and those who cried indecent.
On Wednesday (Oct 9), the tourist wore a white string bikini and the next day, she donned a red one with a similar cut.
The social media photos that went viral caught the attention of the The Boracay Inter-Agency Rehabilitation Management Group on Wednesday, which directed the island’s police force to locate the tourist.
Major Jess Baylon, police chief of Malay town which includes Boracay said they tracked down the tourist to a hotel in Station 1. She and her boyfriend, along with a hotel representative, were taken to the police station on Thursday.
The woman, who was forced to put on a dress when she went to the police station, told officers there that she found nothing wrong with her bikini. She considered it “a form of expression and of feeling comfortable with her body”. She also told police that it was what she normally wears back in Taiwan.
As the authorities could not find an ordinance prohibiting the wearing of very skimpy swimsuits, the tourist was given a citation ticket and meted the fine based on a provision of an ordinance prohibiting the taking and display of “lewd” photographs.
The Taiwanese couple were scheduled to leave the island on Friday, but will be required to pay the fine first, according to Maj Baylon.
“We have our own cultural values as Filipinos and Asians. [Tourists] should be able to respect that,” Bernardino told the government-run Philippine News Agency. “There is no dress code. Maybe it is just common sense.”
However,Β Topless Sunbathing, mostly by foreign tourists, was tolerated in Boracay when there were still few tourists and residents on the island – until the early 1990s. A surge in tourist arrivals and residents meant less secluded and private areas for topless sunbathing.
What, topless sunbathing is okay but not wearing string to cover up pussy?
WTF is wrong with the Filipinos?
Fucking morons or motherfucking hypocrites?