It’s a Tuesday morning, the infinite blue sky of Byron Bay has opened up and the six naturists – four men, two women – have stripped down to their birthday suits for a quick dip in the buff.
This section of beach – an 800-metre stretch along the vast coastline – forms the only legal clothing-optional beach in the shire. Among those taking advantage of the opportunity to be out in the open is Duncan James, vice-president of Northern Rivers Naturists, who is something of an evangelist for “embracing the beach as Mother Nature intended.”
“Many of the beach users have described the clothing-optional beach as their happy place, a place where they can disconnect from modern day stresses, a place they can feel at one with nature,” he says.
There is, however, a metaphorical cloud on the horizon. On Sunday, Tyagarah is set to be stripped of its status as an official clothing-optional beach.
“I guess these values aren’t shared by New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service [NPWS], who are hell-bent on closing one of Byron’s last alternative community hubs and experiences,” James says.
This thread must be mind-blowing for Americans.
We have nude beaches just not as common.
But you knew that already
You have nude public beaches like in Europe? Where?
I don’t know why you continue to pretend like you don’t know. I mean you got your 6 upvotes by lying, what purpose does it serve to continue to lie? Weird. Are you hoping for another upvote or something? It’s a week old comment, that isn’t likely.
https://amazingworld.travel/nude-beaches-usa/
Anyway have fun with your karma farming.
Never lied. Also, you don’t seem like a very pleasant person. Lighten up.
Nah you lied the alternative was that you were giving your opinion on a subject you didn’t know about.
Didn’t lie. Just pointed out that many Americans are prudes. The truth is not a lie.
Second lie.
Not really, were used to good things getting banned.
Its a cultural thing, in Japan and Europe its the opposite, nudity is considered less extreme than violence
Japan seems to have picked up more American-like attitudes about nudity over the decades. Older anime had a lot more ecchi nudity than current stuff, including anime that was meant for a younger crowd.
For example (NSFW link): https://animebathscenewiki.com/index.php?title=Mobile_Suit_Gundam/Episode_22
I may be making assumptions about a whole culture based on one aspect of it, though.
Judging from the screenshots, it seems to be completely non-sexualized. You could hardly get aroused by looking at the woman’s body there.
I wish I could find a video–this scene is on the DVD version–but it’s definitely ecchi (lighthearted sexual humor). It’s pretty obvious in the dialog. Basically, one of the boys remarks how the older teenage girl has boobs and the younger girl doesn’t.
I understand that the subject of the OP is community space specifically for shedding judgement and all that, but
That URL is very suspect, even knowing that not all anime is made for kids
OG Gundam was totally made for kids. It’s cheesy as fuck, but it also had nude ecchi scenes. And yeah, it’s not the sort of site I would normally link, but it’s the most comprehensive one for showing the point in this case.
Admit it, you zoomed.
Recently, some solid gold asshole tried to close one of the two nude beaches in our city by getting a playground installed on it (the nude beach is in the wealthy part of town, nestled between $6.2m dollar homes in a neighborhood that only recently become staggeringly wealthy. The beach itself is tiny, but heavily used.
Luckily, hundreds and hundreds of people showed up at the tiny community center, all in favor of protecting the nude beach. People were packed in, and a line stretched out deep into the lobby and out the main doors. They keep trying to close it, but people love it too much. Realistically, the city needs more nude beaches, not less. Beach goer cars line the neighborhood for blocks, and the park and bike racks are always completely full.
Some rich asshole named Stuart Sloan, owner of University Village, tried low key getting rid of our nude beach here in Seattle. He talked directly with the mayor to get a children’s park right next to the beach and offered to pay for it which would likely mean police would crack down on nudity there. Thankfully the community gathered together to tell him to fuck off.
Lets all buy the property next to Stuarts house, tear down any existing building, and build a glass house…for nude parties!
There is one near there for sale for only $2.7 million. The other one near there is less affordable at $6.2 million. That one does have a pool though so hanging dong easier to do.
Haven’t heard “hang dong” in awhile. Upvoted and may your dong hang freely.
I don’t hang dong… I place dong on a fleshy cushion where it pleasantly sits in its turtleneck among a field of tall grass.
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Having a pool doesn’t make it easier to hang dong, just marginally more plausible.
Is this the case of Byron becoming fashionable, hippies being gentrifuged out by rising prices and replaced by Liberal voters who wanted their slice of heaven to be more conservative and family-friendly?
Family friendly?
Are you for real? Nudist campings are family campings in yurop. Went to a nekid beach last week and it was filled with families. As it is every time we go.
It’s not the nakedness that seems to be the issue. It’s your hyper sexualised mindset and culture.
Someone needs to explain to me why nudity is considered not ‘family-friendly’ but watching movies/playing video games with massive amounts of bloodshed and death is considered fine and dandy for kids.
Because of the American Puritannical values, which dictate what the credit companies and advertisers are willing to do business with and the cultural zeitgeist along with it.
The Puritans were some of the earliest British colonists in the US, and were either thrown out of England for attempting a coup to replace the king with a puppet to force their more extremist form of Christianity on the country, or left by their own choice because they felt that the Church of England was too liberal. They were basically a bunch of prudes who believed that the human body and sex were shameful and disgusting.
This has led to the dichotomy where advertisers want nothing to do with sex/nudity, except when it comes to implied sex in advertisements. Because sex is bad, but it also sells, which is good.
I’m pretty sure those games and movies are age-restricted.
I know lots of kids were/are playing those without parental supervision. Those same parents had/have existential fits if their child sees a penis or breasts in a movie.
Just because their parents are bad parents doesn’t mean there are regulations and restrictions… at the end of the day parents need to parent and so many are unwilling to do so.
I will mention I have no problem with nude beaches or public toplessness of both genders, religious prudishness has no place in the modern world
PG-13 and rated T for teen, respectively
I’m ok with people without clothes on at the beach, but I really don’t want to see a line of people tanning their assholes, so can we at least keep that to a minimum?
I have never heard of anyone actually doing that.
I’ve gone to nude beaches countless times and never seen this, lmao.
It’s like a normal beach with a clothing nerf. Most people are reading, chatting with friends, or swimming with beach balls and floaties.
I would just turn my head or move further down the beach.
shrugs
I just wouldn’t want to have to explain such a thing to a toddler.
Then go to a different fucking beach, you idiot. You’re doing the equivalent of walking into a sushi restaurant and complaining it has too much fish. 99%+ of beaches require clothing, go to them.
Comment I already made:
I’d say that really depends on context. Nudity at a beach? Sure. But I also think that there should be clothed-only areas as an option as well. Give everyone what they want. This is obviously not the way to do it since that was how it already was.
I’m certainly not suggesting people get arrested for child abuse or anything.
So apparently I’m an idiot who agrees with you. What does that make you?
Who said violence was good for kids? If I were a parent I wouldn’t let my kid play those games. Not until they’re 14…unless they’re a stupid kid. Then 18.
These prudes would be terrified of San Francisco, whole city is clothing optional. No one ever really does it cause it’s too cold though saw a couple out today for pride. Sucks there banning it in a place that would actually be comfortable to do it.
San Francisco is not actually clothing optional. Full nudity is mostly illegal. You have to cover the genitals
Not sure if you mean -
[It] sucks there, banning it in a place that would actually be comfortable to do it.
Or
You’re just too lazy to learn how to be coherent for the rest of us
“[It] sucks they’re banning…”
Probably autocorrect or something like that, it’s not that hard to figure out.
Did you think you were being witty? Cause you’re just an asshole.
Regressive’s like maga claim to be all about personal freedom but in truth they don’t want others to have any freedom they don’t approve of. Tolerance is not something they possess. Never listen to what regressives say just watch what those perverts do.
I really need to start using the term “regressives”. It is so accurate!
Regressives want the personal freedom to harass hurt and kill who they want. That’s what they’re talking about. They feel the walls finally around them saying they can’t. So they lash out, at anything.
They are dangerous feral animals
Someone on the Internet put it nicely as “there must be outgroups the law binds but does not protect, and in groups the law protects but does not bind”. That’s all there is it to it. My people good and can do what they want, your people suck.
Stripped down to this basic level, you can see it’s a pretty vile worldview.
I thought walking around naked was part of Australian culture.
They worded conservative creep perfectly to be completely misleading
Misleading yet entirely accurate
Weirdly it was only on reading your comment that I saw the ambiguity. I quite like it.
Sorry to read that. How dare you sun yourself as nature intended. /s
