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Originally Posted by brunettesrule
Hi, PJ. Not sure which beaches you are referring to, but on Gunnison the rangers are on the lookout for sexual activity and you also run the risk of being reported by someone who is not as freewheeling as others. And the consequences for being caught by a ranger are dire and life changing.
People who object to nude beaches in the first place love to cite them as being places where people are having sex, rather than a place to lay out nude. When Lighthouse was closed to nude use, the two reasons cited by the Park Service were the number of people having sex on the beach, and the fact that the view of the nude beach was no longer obscured by the dunes (which were washed away by Hurricane Sandy).
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We have never been to Gunnison, but I wouldn't doubt you. Haulover is definitely the same way, at least to some degree. There are signs warning people there that though nudity is permitted, sex is illegal there which indicates first that there is sex associated with nudity to a point they have to say something about it in the form of metal signs. Yet there are plenty of people there relishing the sexual feelings that accompany the still-unconventional public removal of specific items of clothing.
However, my points have not been that sex should be openly encouraged at the beach in front of minors and the potentially offended, it is the running hypocrisy that nudity is natural but sex is not. This is not unusual. Sexual repression is a hallmark of civilized society, and not without some sensible reasons. Just not all of them are sensible, which is why we are in a much more liberated time in history than other times in the past. There has been progress, for instance, in limiting what we can and can't do in the bedroom (oral sex was considered sodomy and both were illegal in many if not all states in the U.S.).
My point has been that sex is such a natural part of nudism that that societal freaking out about it falls fully into the realm of repression. We see sex used to sell everything with billboards that are alot more sexually charged than a 60-something nude woman with an all-over tan on her sagging tits and ass, yet a guy getting a hardon at the beach ruffles feathers. The real problem is that sexuality can catch like wildfire and turn a beach full of nudists into an orgy (at least to some small degree) like in Cap D'adge, and that scares people because the people who don't like it judge the people who do. Humans are such weird creatures in that they turn the act that brought each and every living being into existence into a forbidden experience. We might just as well be ashamed of living on a planet that rotates on an axis.
It is a sad fact that those who don't want to be inconvenienced by complaints by the gratefully repressed reinforce the idea that sex is unnatural. Many people learn about sex from seeing barnyard animals, pets or wild animals (including insects) mating. When was the last time you saw law enforcement descending on the owners of dogs who got it on? People will break them up to avoid embarrassment among themselves, though some will treat it humorously, but no one gets arrested for letting nature take its course with the pets in the front yard. Again, I am not lobbying for a libertine society, just saying it's a drag we can't be a little freer in the more secluded areas of the beach, away from the eyes of minors and prudes.
And again, while I have no experience of Gunnison in any regard, my wife and I have had
discreet sex on every nude beach we have been on, as well as some clothed beaches. In over thirty years of doing this we have been accosted by angry nudists maybe once or twice, and mostly, we found out, it was because they felt left out. On some beaches sexual activity is either tolerated or encouraged, and those of course are our favorites.
I think of it as how it was at outdoor concerts when joints would be passed out in the open even though it was highly illegal then... the point was not to impose the practice on anyone else, but to cut through the hypocrisy and allow people to do what they wanted (as long as they don't impose it on anyone else.)
My advice is if you are in a place (grocery store, church, public beach like Gunnison) where you can expect to be accosted for blatant sexual activity, proceed with the same caution you would when exceeding the posted speed limit (which could get you arrested or killed).
And then think about the connection of nudity and sex and why a site such as this, much of which is primarily aimed at stimulating sexuality originating from simple nudity, is so richly supplied by its members...