Nude beaches. Been there? Done that?

In My Humble Opinion
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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?

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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.

23

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…

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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.

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Hmm… I’m suddenly envisioning a burgeoning market for green sunvisors attached to belts.

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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.