Any guys here who are nudist?

[Nudistpig]

They're the people who get textiles up in arms, and get nude beaches closed. So yay for that.....

I admit even as a former cruising enthusiast n current nudist it's less the acts (if well out of sight out of mind) but the abhorrent aggressive completely out in the open behavior I see here and other places. We have the full spectrum of public sex happening which is going to cause problems. The only thing worse are the tourists (two dudes three dudes) fully clothed not even in beach wear trying to scope women or take pictures. This can happen multiple times.

 

[hardboy_fll]

The only thing worse are the tourists (two dudes three dudes) fully clothed not even in beach wear trying to scope women or take pictures. This can happen multiple times.

The same thing happens at restricted beaches where they force you to wear clothing of some kind. But saying the word "nude" is sensationalized so when that happens in the context of a nude beach everybody's supposed to wet their pants and get all excited over it. Same thing happens elsewhere and they can't be bothered. Double standard.

 

[hardboy_fll]

They're the people who get textiles up in arms, and get nude beaches closed. So yay for that.....

In reality it's the small-minded, grandstanding politicians who get beaches closed. Anyone else with common sense can see the problem for what it is. They should deal with on the beach the same way they deal with it everywhere else and not fly off the handle.

 

[JimmyMack2015]

I visited a little out-of-the-way nude beach on the California coast -- Pirate's Cove, Avila Beach, off Hwy 101 north of Pismo -- a few years ago and was treated to a spectacle I will not forget for a long time. The beach was in a little bay surrounded by steep hills, and the only way to it was this narrow footpath. Halfway down the footpath split into two and the second path led to a forested area across from the beach. (I was close enough to see the nude people on the beach.) About 1/4 mile on, I got to the forested area and found it full of people, fully clothed. They had high-powered binoculars and cameras with huge telephoto lenses. Those weirdos were there strictly to view and record the nudist. Who are the pervs in this scenario?

Right away I knew what to do. I retraced my steps back to the main path and went down to the beach. Ppl of all ages were there, some to show off their sex. There was an open spot beside an attractive young woman (no shit!) and I asked if I could lie there. I was wearing only cutoffs with nothing under them and had a towel and book. She smiled and said okay. I looked across the bay and saw we were directly in the view of all the camera pervs on the other side.

I made a bit of a show of slowly pulling down my cut-offs and revealing my semi-hard uncut penis. Out of the corner of my eye I saw her looking at it and of course everybody across the bay was looking at it.

Then I lay down on my stomach, propped up on my elbows, and pretended to read. I was close enough to the young woman that we could converse comfortably. Turned out she was from right around there and a regular at the beach. I had a feeling she was looking for adventure.

I'm not exactly a pickup artist but she was hot and lying on my stomach I was hard. After a while we kind of dozed off and I allowed myself to rotate upward a bit on her side so my hard tip was exposed. If she noticed it she didn't say anything. In the afternoon heat my eyes became heavy again and I dozed for a while. When I woke she was gone. Thinking back I felt myself getting aroused again. I did not fight the feeling and got back into my shorts with more than a semi to cram inside. No doubt the photographers across the bay got some good shots.

 

[ItsAll4Kim]

In reality it's the small-minded, grandstanding politicians who get beaches closed. Anyone else with common sense can see the problem for what it is. They should deal with on the beach the same way they deal with it everywhere else and not fly off the handle.

You can't blame politicians when these people give other beachgoers AND politicians ample right to complain. They give nudism a bad name....it's hard enough to get people to understand that nudity doesn't have to automatically imply sex.

 

[Nudistpig]

You can't blame politicians when these people give other beachgoers AND politicians ample right to complain. They give nudism a bad name....it's hard enough to get people to understand that nudity doesn't have to automatically imply sex.

Here in Toronto we're the scapegoats. Never mind cruising on the beach is 50 years old and maybe older. Never mind that textiles have sex openly on the beach (although these really aren't a huge problem legally like they might be elsewhere), it's assumed these folks must be us because suburban people can't parse bodies from sex. The real problem is rampant drug and alcohol consumption, party boats 5 to 20 feet off the beach, and people bringing full on sound systems on top of the party promoters doing weekend long shindigs. I fished a kid in a drug stupor out two summers ago and he was surely drowning and oblivious to it. The conservative councilors will blame us if someone drowns.

 

[ItsAll4Kim]

Here in Toronto we're the scapegoats. Never mind cruising on the beach is 50 years old and maybe older. Never mind that textiles have sex openly on the beach (although these really aren't a huge problem legally like they might be elsewhere), it's assumed these folks must be us because suburban people can't parse bodies from sex. The real problem is rampant drug and alcohol consumption, party boats 5 to 20 feet off the beach, and people bringing full on sound systems on top of the party promoters doing weekend long shindigs. I fished a kid in a drug stupor out two summers ago and he was surely drowning and oblivious to it. The conservative councilors will blame us if someone drowns.

Interesting differences. Here in the US, at least on the northeast beaches, the problem was m/m sex on nude beaches. Even other nudists (especially a sizable number of other gays) attempting to "police" the beaches didn't stop a few from ruining it for everyone. Someone brings their family out for a day of relaxation au natural, but instead have to try to explain what those people are doing back near the dunes. It doesn't take much of that to get a beach closed to nudity. And to be honest, I can't disagree. Sex in public is illegal pretty much everywhere in the US.

 

[hardboy_fll]

You can't blame politicians when these people give other beachgoers AND politicians ample right to complain. They give nudism a bad name....it's hard enough to get people to understand that nudity doesn't have to automatically imply sex.

It is the politicians that we elect who decide to close down nude beaches so I damn well CAN blame them. They are the ones going to the effort, not you, not me, and not those people having sex.

If there's a fatal wreck on the highway do the politicians exclaim "OH! We MUST close down all the highways. PEOPLE ARE DYING!!"?

No. They deal with that specific instance knowing that you get the good and the bad with anything. If a small percentage of people on a nude beach are troublemakers you deal with the troublemakers, you don't throw out the baby with the bath water; to do so is thoughtless.

Besides, if sex is such an awful, terrible thing then why do so many people (by your account) seem to enjoy it?

 

[ItsAll4Kim]

It is the politicians that we elect who decide to close down nude beaches so I damn well CAN blame them. They are the ones going to the effort, not you, not me, and not those people having sex.

If there's a fatal wreck on the highway do the politicians exclaim "OH! We MUST close down all the highways. PEOPLE ARE DYING!!"?

No. They deal with that specific instance knowing that you get the good and the bad with anything. If a small percentage of people on a nude beach are troublemakers you deal with the troublemakers, you don't throw out the baby with the bath water; to do so is thoughtless.

Besides, if sex is such an awful, terrible thing then why do so many people (by your account) seem to enjoy it?

Two points:

1. The US is of course a representative republic, not a democracy. We elect representatives to support our beliefs. To be elected and re-elected, that's what they do. If sufficient numbers complain to them, they act upon it. So blaming them only applies if you can show evidence they've "gone off the ranch" and aren't responding to their constituencies. If the particular problem is public sex on nude beaches, and no such problem exists on textile beaches, then it isn't overkill to close the beach to nudity. It's virtually impossible to identify a potential problem beachgoer before they commit an act. Given that we nudists are an extreme minority, this type of action/reaction is inevitable. It's why many of us nudists try to set good examples, and act as ambassadors for nudism. The reality of public reaction will NOT be changed any time soon.

2. Where'd that "if sex is such an awful terrible thing" straw man come from? Where did I even imply that sex is awful? Sex in public is inappropriate. That isn't an indictment of the act, but of the chosen location.

 

[Komland]

Started around 25. Was living in Germany and nudity in lots of situations was natural.

 

[Nudistpig]

Interesting differences. Here in the US, at least on the northeast beaches, the problem was m/m sex on nude beaches. Even other nudists (especially a sizable number of other gays) attempting to "police" the beaches didn't stop a few from ruining it for everyone. Someone brings their family out for a day of relaxation au natural, but instead have to try to explain what those people are doing back near the dunes. It doesn't take much of that to get a beach closed to nudity. And to be honest, I can't disagree. Sex in public is illegal pretty much everywhere in the US.

Well. Cruising culture is part of gay culture. Many beaches with cruising had it before they were overrun by people. Due to the dangerous nature of the act the areas were deliberately far away from people. Nudists and Naturists often arrived after the gay guys for the same reason and we got nude often so the culture was there already. Public sex is illegal but it happens everywhere and the majority is heterosexual. The arrests are still overwhelmingly gay men. So while I sympathize and know some guys are just out of control exhibitionists, most cruising happens out of sight. European beaches tend not to care. The US has a pretty fucked up way of policing sex and it disenfranchises minorities first. So while I am not in favour of the flagrant stuff I am not going to push for the eradication of a community tradition that is by and large not harmful and probably helpful. We need to regulate a little bit and share.

 

[KurtisT]

I grew up a nudist. Glad I did.

 

[clcarter22]

I started out as a home nudist when I was about 13 or 14. I love being naked and would love to explore social nudism much more!

 

[ItsAll4Kim]

Well. Cruising culture is part of gay culture. Many beaches with cruising had it before they were overrun by people. Due to the dangerous nature of the act the areas were deliberately far away from people. Nudists and Naturists often arrived after the gay guys for the same reason and we got nude often so the culture was there already. Public sex is illegal but it happens everywhere and the majority is heterosexual. The arrests are still overwhelmingly gay men. So while I sympathize and know some guys are just out of control exhibitionists, most cruising happens out of sight. European beaches tend not to care. The US has a pretty fucked up way of policing sex and it disenfranchises minorities first. So while I am not in favour of the flagrant stuff I am not going to push for the eradication of a community tradition that is by and large not harmful and probably helpful. We need to regulate a little bit and share.

It might be part of the culture, but it got nude beaches closed here in the states. So a few spoiled it for everyone.

 

[fratjoc8c]

I became a nudist while in college. I tried it with a friend in the Great Lakes, USA, and it was not a big deal. There was Adam and Eve, unaware of inhibition until they were corrupted by the psychology of the mind, it was not the body that corrupted nature, it was the dissolution of the mind that did. One can overcome the Adam & Eve effect syndrome and live life to the fullest without paranoid and delusion.

 

[jumbo747jet]

Not sure I'd call myself a nudist but I have enjoyed nude beaches ever since I was in my early 20ies. It's mostly been whenever I have traveled to a warmer climate that I have gone to the local nude beach for some all over tanning.
Unlike many "hard core" nudists, I'm not in the habit of going nude around the home and have never visited a actual nudist / naturist resort or club.
While my discovery of nudism began as mostly exhibitionism, it didn't take me long before I started to really enjoy the sense of total freedom of being nude in the sunshine.

 

[deleted879312]

Full time home nudist

 

[Auburn Frat]

Full time home nudist

Same here

 

[chadexx]

European countries have a much more open attitude to naked bodies. Plenty of nude beaches here..

 

[deleted300444]

Me more of an outdoor nudist, camping. pools, residential nudist neighborhoods.