Some of the nude beaches in the US are just ignored by the government. For many years, there was a nude beach in the New York borough of Queens. It was on Neponsit at Beach 43rd Street. I don't know if it's still nude. But I'm sure there's still a nude beach on Sandy Hook on the north end of the New Jersey coast. It's ignored. Kind of an unspoken truce between the nature lovers and the government. And these aren't just topless beaches, they're nude beaches. I remember visiting a friend in Queens when my kids were toddlers. He lived right off the beach on the ocean side of the island. We walked down the beach a ways, and he told me that if we went any further, it was a nude beach. Since my kids had grown up in a household where nudity wasn't a big deal, they never even noticed the unclad folks. And that's the way it should be. But unfortunately, our society fixates on the details of the human body. Paul On Sep 3, 2006, at 2:36 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> Rhode Island used to have Moonstone beach. The local authorities > tried > for years to get it shut down. It took the federal authorities > declaring it a nesting area for an endangered species, the Piping > Plover > to do it. It's funny I've seen Piping Plovers, nesting, on a lot of > Rhode Island Beaches, I think Piping Plovers like people, (humans tend > to keep other predators away), yet the authorities haven't shut > down any > of the other beaches. > > A somewhat biased but more or less truthful account can be found here. > > http://www.sunclad.com/pilgrim/moonstone.asp > > Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Bob Shell wrote: >> >> >> >>> You won't see this on USA beaches. Except for a very few nude >>> beaches, nudity or even just plain topless women is banned. Thong >>> and >>> T-back swimsuits are also banned on many beaches. I've witnessed >>> culture clash many times in Florida when European tourists tried to >>> act normally and were harassed. This is how you promote tourism? >>> >>> >> >> They should go to Brattleboro, Vermont: >> http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060825-092642-8628r >> >> >> > > > -- > Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. > > --Albert Einstein > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
