Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:13 PM
WillyT (44,742 posts)
Public Nudity: Is It Generational, Regional, Religious, Or Something Else...
I mean... I grew up in Northern California in the 1970s, and going to a nude beach was almost a rite of passage. Pirates Cove, Black's Beach, Baker Beach, Paradise Beach, and dozens of others along with many many redwood hottubs...
Part of the sexual revolution was proving that body image didn't matter.
Guess I missed the next couple of memos.
Bonus question: Have YOU ever been to one ?
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:17 PM
randome (11,165 posts)
1. Maybe it's all of those. That's why it's so fraught with dispute.
Never been to a nude beach but I've been nude outdoors on private occasions.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:30 PM
bamademo (1,907 posts)
6. I went topless in right situations when I was under 40...
Out on the river and private pools, etc. But I'm older now and I'm not about to show anyone but by boyfriend my sagging breasts and don't want to see anyone else. JMHO.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:37 PM
BainsBane (7,254 posts)
10. Does skinny dipping count?
If so, yes. And then the bikinis I wore in Brazil were pretty close to being nude.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:42 PM
Warpy (68,004 posts)
12. Quite a few of the townie beaches on Cape Cod
and the big islands were clothing optional.
And yes, I've been to them.
Just imagine the astoundingly ugly DUmmy Warpy, a dead ringer for President von Hindenberg sans facial hair, on a nude beach.
I watched a show on nudists once, only saw one actually good looking woman. All are fat and old.
...but inside is a skinny, good looking woman just dying to get out......Hey, it's what I've been told by the late afternoon TV shows.Me too, apparently I'm beautiful and should buy someone's self help book.
This is why I do not feel that I missed out by NEVER going to a nude beach.
Fact of Life 101: No one who goes nudist will ever be a person you would want to see naked.
Years ago I went on a couple of cruises to St Martin. The cruise directors always mentioned that you could find the nude beach by following the nipple drag marks in the sand.
Ewww! :rofl:
...but inside is a skinny, good looking woman just dying to get out......Hey, it's what I've been told by the late afternoon TV shows.
Why is it that all of the people who want to be naked in public are the ones we never....and I mean NEVER....want to see that way in the first place.
Simple solution: Don't look. Unless you have been taken at gunpoint to the local nude beach, nobody is forcing you to.
I agree with the above statement but unfortunately my job takes me to San Francisco right by where the nudists that protested the city's decision to ban public nudity hang out, corner of Market and Castro. And, even though it's now against city law, they still "let it all hang out" and nothing happens to them....and believe me it's not a pretty picture.
This thread reminds me of a Hannity radio show just a few weeks ago. He was talking about nudist colonies and some nudist had called in talking about it and Hannity was like, "So you just walk around with everything hanging out?" I had to turn it off because I was cracking up so much and I was working. I felt like I was disrupting everyone within a few rows of my desk. I think the nudist that called Hannity was talking about how he was kind of overweight and it just bothered me thinking of some fat guy walking around naked. :rotf:
This is why I do not feel that I missed out by NEVER going to a nude beach.
Fact of Life 101: No one who goes nudist will ever be a person you would want to see naked.
Fact of Life 101: No one who goes nudist will ever be a person you would want to see naked.
I agree with the above statement but unfortunately my job takes me to San Francisco right by where the nudists that protested the city's decision to ban public nudity hang out, corner of Market and Castro. And, even though it's now against city law, they still "let it all hang out" and nothing happens to them....and believe me it's not a pretty picture.Judging from the zombietime photos I have see they are doing more than just letting it all hang out. Disgusting displays at some street fair out there with plenty of children around to witness.
I have to confess I've gone topless a couple of times (in my 30s) on Ocracoke Island and on the French side of St. Martin. Only with my husband though -- if I noticed anyone walking up the beach, I covered up fast. :panic:
Some good looking some not but the worse was the family of fat assed Germans boating on Lake Garda. The whole family was butt naked on their boat. Not a pretty sight.
Early one cold morning back when a portion of Bahia Honda Key was nude, me and friend were snorkeling for crabs(the edible kind). We went past the state park property line on to the private property where the nudist went. We spotted a slightly tan white woman of about 350 pounds lying naked on the beach. Buddy made the comment that she looked like a beached albino whale and wondered if we shouldn't try to get her back in the water. Then we went on our way past and buddy looked back again and there in the shade of her large butt was a skinny very white little old man lying beside her. Buddy said that if he ever got on top of her between her legs that he would be mistaken for an appendectomy scar.
If as a kid skinny dipping in the farm ponds and in the creek that ran thru it counts.....then I'm guilty. :-)
Now days at my age, I want a way to take a bath with my clothes on.
...but inside is a skinny, good looking woman just dying to get out......Hey, it's what I've been told by the late afternoon TV shows.
Sure, they say that, but try going after one of them with a big ol' knife to help 'em escape from the ugly wrapping, and they just run away screaming...
:evillaugh:
The main problem is the same people who went naked on these beaches in the 1960's, when they were in their late teens/early twenties, are STILL going there naked today! :o
The thought of a nude beach and DUmmies just makes me envision a bunch of normal people running out and trying to roll them back into the sea. O-)
In case anyone needs reminded, there's a couple of photographs of the mike_c primitive in his dossier over at that web-site the primitives don't know about, the one that has no connection with conservativecave, showing him buck naked, in the altogether.
These were photographs the mike_c primitive shared with friends of his.
<<<thinks the mike_c primitive should be a little bit more careful about who he considers his friends, and what he shares with them.
No need to thank me.
Re: DUmmies Frolic On Nude Beaches
If I see a thread with the words "DUmmy" and "nude", I really really resist the urge to click on it. :runaway:
Yikes.
Little, that looks like a guy, but blow it up, and it's a woman.
Yikes.
In case anyone needs reminded, there's a couple of photographs of the mike_c primitive in his dossier over at that web-site the primitives don't know about, the one that has no connection with conservativecave, showing him buck naked, in the altogether.
These were photographs the mike_c primitive shared with friends of his.
<<<thinks the mike_c primitive should be a little bit more careful about who he considers his friends, and what he shares with them.
No need to thank me.
I "frolicked" in my younger days. Hippie Hollow. Guadalupe River. Crystal Beach. I hated tan lines plus enjoyed the added thrill of being naughty.
I "frolicked" in my younger days. Hippie Hollow. Guadalupe River. Crystal Beach. I hated tan lines plus enjoyed the added thrill of being naughty. It made for some great evenings with the hubby.
Now? No way! :o (Although hubby just nixed the "no way" and said I just might this May when we go to some place special he has in mind. Uh oh.) :runaway:
:lol: ...oh so true.
That's what's great about us hubby's. WE DON"T CARE. Just get nekkid!
:hyper: