The signs were posted in a swimming pool in Perchtoldsdorf, a market town a short distance from the Austrian capital of Vienna.
One sign shows a man entering the women’s dressing room with the word “STOP!” and “entry is forbidden in non-designated areas” written next to it.
Another sign shows a picture of a young teen in a bikini with three hands nearing to grope her.
It reads “NO!” and explains that “physical contact with other guests is forbidden”.
While the signs feature English, French, and Arabic text, there is no German translation, the sign clearly not being intended for local visitors.
Local citizens and politicians have reacted to the apparent necessity of such signs.
MP Christian Hoebart of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), which opposes immigration, argued that the signs should not be needed in a “civilised society”.
Such stickers with the word "NO!" surrounded by white angel wings were distributed to teen girls.
Hoebart wrote: “Is it once again a submission (by our society) for the mass immigration of completely uneducated and culturally alien people?”
Local citizens wrote to the MP that the swimming pool in Perchtoldsdorf was not the only one with such signs, with one person saying he has also seen them in the mountain town of Gloggnitz.
It is not the first drastic measure reluctantly taken by Europeans to stop sex attacks in swimming pools.
Last year, teenage girls at German swimming pools were given anti-sex attack press-on tattoos with the word “NO” as a warning for would-be-attackers not to harass them. Statistics on the campaign's effectiveness are not yet forthcoming, but at the campaign's launch officials expressed confidence and determination that the new empowering weapon would stop bad intentions in their tracks.
In October a gang of Syrian boys as young as seven were arrested for sexually assaulting young girls at a German swimming pool.
