If 61% of UnitedStatians/Americans are overweight, it's just as well there aren't too many nude beaches around here. :)

Nudists don't care. That's why their get-togethers aren't a pretty sight (reputedly).

In Sydney this week a guy was fined for wandering around a popular beach using his mobile phone to take snaps of (female) topless sunbathers. He seemed to think that he'd been the victim of prudery.

I find it interesting that there is so much "religious right" bashing. Why shouldn't people of like mind vote together? After all, that's what the Republicans and Democrats do, as well as the environmentalists, the Socialists, etc. Fundamentalists have a perfect right to organize and boycott and vote--and they are strengthening our democracy by the exercise of THEIR rights. And because there are more of them than in your group---well, that's democracy at work.

No, I am not a member of the religious right. I can't be, I'm an Episcopalian. But I don't knock them or their views, and I certainly think that power (governmental or otherwise) belongs to those who are willing to work for it.

"I wonder if those German boys did too, or any men are they turned on at the beach or don't they bat an eyelash?"

They don´t bat an eyelash. When people are used to seeing naked people it becomes everyday, and is nothing to be noticed. For example in Finland nudity is not usually connected to sex. It is not SEXY, it is just a naked person.

I' just curious.

Have any of you actually been on a nude beach or at a nudist resort?

As a voyeur or participant?

Yes in Goa, India long ago and it was great at that time - the freedom of it all, especially with my girlfriend. There were lots of other Westerners as well but no Indians. There were Indians who came to gawk at the naked Westerners which wasn't a comfortable feeling for my girlfriend - i figured they weren't looking at me. I've also been on Dutch nude beaches just briefly, just to see what they were and they were mainly older folks that were not an enticing sight. In fact beaches of all types bore me stiff!

Author: elina
Date: 12/03/2004, 06:56 am
Message: "I wonder if those German boys did too, or any men are they turned on at the beach or don't they bat an eyelash?"

They don´t bat an eyelash. When people are used to seeing naked people it becomes everyday, and is nothing to be noticed. For example in Finland nudity is not usually connected to sex. It is not SEXY, it is just a naked person.

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Elina, it's not the male eyelash which is known for its batting average. :)

Wonder why there are German and French editions of Playboy?

PalQ, nude beaches bore you "stiff"....hmmm.

Sorry, it is my wacky mood today.

Sue, Your question reminded me of something I observed years ago in French Polynesia. This was back in the day when Club Med was everything it was rumored to be and more, with clothing optional at most of its beaches. I thought it quite humorous to see young men huddled around a Playboy (or the like) when they could cross the street to the beach and get an eyeful of the real thing(s).

Forgive the view of someone who has, perhaps, become a bit jaded over the years, but why isn't this a boring topic by now? I had to laugh at beachbum's description of the Playboy oglers near a nude beach -- sort of makes my point that there's a certain amount of self-imposed fanaticism among Americans (males) who otherwise have a remarkably short attention span. Hey! Is nakedness really such news?

I guess I know I'm old
When I only care
Whether nudists get cold.

BTW: I've enjoyed a couple of clothing optional beaches, joined in the spirit, loved swimming nekkid. But after one or two strutting bald roosters walk by, the novelty...shall we say ... withers.

Actually, a "clothed" beach is much more erotic.

Much of today's swimwear (for women) seems meant to be sexy and seems to attract attention.

A nude beach is just naked.

I have gone topless (when I was 25 and had enough confidence in myself) on a small section of North Miami Beach called Haulover. It was a small section, but well known for it's topless tendancies.

My partner in crime was a visiting friend from Australia. She grew up near Perth, and said she doesn't remember being on a beach where there weren't topless bathers.

I got sunburnt in places that really hurt!!! :D