Sunbathing Topless: A Woman's Right?

In Italy, where nude sunbathing is usually legal, a 26 year-old woman was reported to the police when her topless sunbathing "disturbed" the 12 and 14 year-old sons of a nearby beachgoer. The mother of the two sons initially asked the topless sunbather, called Luisa by the press, to put her top on, but Luisa refused. The mother then went to the police who filed a report on Luisa. In the United States, this would be a cut and dry issue of public indecency. But in Italy, where it's legal to sunbathe nude on a public beach providing there are no explicit bylaws against it, the case, which occurred in Anzio south of Rome, has created a national debate. We find this fascinating coming from such a puritan culture as the United States, not to mention our Latino/Catholic enclave of the United States. If someone sunbathed topless on South Padre Island, Texas, forget an arrest, there'd be a rape.

But it also brings up interesting questions. Why didn't the mother just move herself and her sons? Why blame the woman for being attractive? A fact that was brought up by both a spokesman for the Anzio police:

The patrol went and took her details and she argued, still topless, that she could so no harm in what she was doing as it was a public beach. We have opened a file on committing an obscene act as we are committed to following the complaint. From what I heard she was very attractive.

And Luisa's own lawyer:

Let's be clear my client is tall, brunette and has an ample breast and is therefore going to naturally be sensuous when she applies cream to her chest.

This may well have attracted the attention of the women's two sons but it should not lead to my client being convicted. She is amazed that she is being condemned for simply sunbathing topless.

What do you guys think? In a culture where sunbathing topless is legal, should a woman be forced to cover up if she's too attractive?

Source: Telegraph