Postcards with pictures of bikini-clad women are seen on display on a postcard stand at a souvenir shop in Marseille, France, August 6, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Laurenson
PARIS (Reuters) - Smutty postcards with pictures of women wearing bikinis are a typical if often maligned feature of French seaside resorts. But in the wake of an anti-sexual harassment movement sweeping France, their days may be numbered.
A French feminist organisation has branded the risque cards "sexist and sometimes pornographic" and launched a campaign to have them removed from newsstands, souvenir shops and tabacs.
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