# Nude beaches. Been there? Done that? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871 "2009-09-20T20:15:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/21 "2009-09-23T16:56:47Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I’m always amazed by how quickly one gets desensitized to nudity when everyone is naked. Yep. Funny, the first time I went I got desensitized pretty quickly. A nude body is a nude body is a nude body. When it was time to go, I got on the bus. I saw a rather attractive young lady, and my first thought was “I wonder what she looks like naked.” Huh? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/22 "2009-09-23T17:16:35Z")
My wife and I honeymooned on St. Martin next to a nude beach (I think it was Orient Beach). We took a walk and coming over from the nude beach was a nude man. Jogging. You just don’t want to see that. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/23 "2009-09-23T18:41:23Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > I was only there once. A friend of mine was turned away at the closest entrance to Hippie Hollow for having kids with her (young, like 2 and 4, I think). This was years ago, though. That’s odd. My experiences are at least a decade old. I am sorry that happened to her. The Texas nudity laws are really strange, though. Nudity is only illegal if it offends anyone. If it offends the cop and no one else, you are breaking the law. If you are in your bathroom nude and someone looks in the window and is offended, you are breaking the law. I suppose the other person entering would have been offended, so they could warn them in advance… ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/24 "2009-09-24T03:07:12Z")
In Southern Spain, the beaches are “topless optional.” That is, some women wear their bikini tops and some don’t. The first time I went, I experienced a combination of culture shock and admiration toward all the old ladies going topless. The body/sexual attitudes of elderly Spaniards are very different from their American counterparts. I also went to a hammam (public bath) in Morocco. Again, it was major culture shock. These ladies who cover up, sometimes up to their eyeballs, in public, have no qualms about stripping completely naked in front of other women. ---
**Author:** ![\_cc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19b73/32.png) [@\_cc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_cc)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/25 "2009-09-30T06:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > We returned with bad sunburns in the worst places. Hmm.. I’m suddenly envisioning a burgeoning market for green sunvisors attached to belts. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871/26 "2009-09-30T15:23:45Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > When I moved to San Diego in 1996, I wasn’t aware of that particular beach’s reputation as mostly a nude beach for gay males. For gay males!? It’s the nude beach for everyone in Southern California, being the ONLY legal one south of the Bay Area, AFAIK. The tide of modesty and protect-the-children type values have been beating the nude beach/nudist camp movement into submission for the past thirty years. I was at UCSD from 1975-80, but was much to shy to strip down then! If I had known how rare the opportunity to visit a nude beach would eventually be in my life, I would have gone there several times a week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-beaches-been-there-done-that/510871.md?page=1)