Nudity
Depending on where you come from and what you used to, you may be shocked by the amount of nudity that is portrayed in France. Even on billboards as you're driving by you'll see a full frontal picture of a woman's breasts. If you go into a convenience store, all the porn magazines are sitting right out in the opening and you can see a lot more than just breasts on the front page. There is no offence or "suggestions" intended by most of these images; nudity in France is just simply not as big of a deal as in North America. Even outside the Louvre , there are old statues of naked women and there are full frontal naked men statues on the Arc de Triomphe. A woman's body can be seen as an excellent area for artisitc representation, but it also merely a fact of human life. I think this is just as the French see it. If you're travelling with kids and are concerned, just cover their eyes in a...
