Women in Berlin will soon be allowed to go topless at the city’s public swimming pools, the Berlin state govt said on Thursday. The new bathing rules allowing everyone to go swimming without covering their torsos followed a ‘discrimination’ complaint by a woman who was not allowed to go topless in a swimming pool in the German capital. The woman had turned to the senate’s ombudsperson’s office for equal treatment to demand that women, like men, can swim topless.