"We are seeing a large influx of folks coming in that have no interest in getting naked or enjoying the beach."
Now, the sister sports of nude sunbathing and surfing rarely, if ever, come into conflict. Surfers generally ply our trade in the waters, often colder or dangerous and have no care for what happens on the sand. Nude sunbathers ply theirs on the beach, exposing gentle bits to the warm rays of the sun. The two groups form a sort of yin-yang representing a wonderful balance of opposites. Nude sunbathers and surfers can be witnessed peacefully sharing the same environment at Blacks, in San Diego, or the coastline of France. A balm for this polarized age.
Surfers, then, are providing allyship for a group of nude sunbathers in Canada’s Vancouver who are complaining about “hordes of perverted men in street clothing” descending upon their once bucolic sands.
Wreck Beach has long been a favorite. Sometimes called “The Topless Teahupo’o,” nude sunbathers have been “pulling it” since 1989. Large logs provide both backrests and wind stops for the naked except, now, the city is removing them opening up sight lines and generally causing mayhem.
While the city is citing safety, its lifeguards being unable to spot those in need of assistance, others are saying bigger issues than mass drownings must be considered.
“We are seeing a large influx of folks coming in that have no interest in getting naked or enjoying the beach,” the chair of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society Stephen Biduk told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, adding, “They’re just coming down to look at people, to look at naked bodies, and that’s becoming a bigger concern.”
Mary Jean Dunsdon, who enjoys participating in nude sunbathing, is furious about the whole situation, boldly declaring, “I know that Wreck Beach is a tourist destination, but I am not a tourist attraction. I am not the Eiffel Tower.”
A petition has been circulated in order to stop log removal. It lists the key concerns including:
Increased Intimidation: Herds of men in city clothing are coming to the beach, intimidating visitors, and filming women and children. This is directly correlated to the open sight lines and the monitoring metro claims it needs. Metro Vancouver’s response of “trying to educate them” is insufficient. We need more safe spaces and a reduction in voyeuristic behavior. Correcting the mistake of removing the larger logs and safe spaces is a simple and effective answer.
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I go there quite regularly and it’s not that bad. Even the Indian guys everyone rags on about aren’t overtly filming people, it happens, maybe, but rarely and honestly people should be a little more brave and politely approach such individuals and tell then how they feel. Most such people are not psychos, they just pervs who have difficulties being social. Point is if you let them know you’re not comfortable with being filmed there’s a good chance they will adjust their behavior and think more deeply about how they are affecting others.
On a different note, people should also realize that being filmed of photographed is basically the same as being viewed and yes, a picture lasts longer, thats kinda the point, but social media site don’t allow posts of nude people anyway so the chance that you’re gonna be “seen online” by a coworker or family member is really just an old-school fear not rooted in common sense. Most people are taking pics and videos for themselves and will never share them with anyone else — many of those people also want to maintain a working ego within society like everyone and wouldn’t want to make others think they’re freaks so the whole “oh no what if my Pic goes online” fear is pretty unfounded.
I say, let people get their eye full if that’s what satisfies them. Basically just ley people be themselves as long as they’re not being malicious. The creepy camera types are so few in number anyway you really have to look to find them… I don’t think it’s worth worrying about!
Just enjoy yourself and if you’re do manage to get caught in an uncomfortable situation and you’re scared to confront someone ask someone else for a help in approaching them, there is power in numbers!
Wah wah… let’s see some tiddies
I live in Vancouver. I’ve never gone there but I have a friend who used to and said he quit because it’s been ‘taken over’ by 🇮🇳 men creeping on women. Some men will leer at women no matter what we wear, but I said no a couple years ago when a friend asked me if I wanted to go there with her and a couple other people, because I worried about the men there. Sounds like I made the right choice.
Import the third world…
INDIANS
Dragged my arse down to Les Culs Nus on a hot day and I had no surf shorts, water had been balmy too so I just surfed nude. Way too hot for a wetty.
Everyone was stoked and thought it was a ripper, well all except for one Aussie touro who must have been a closest bumhole fingerer.
xox
I have just put my boardshorts on my head. But one time they fell off into the water while I was surfing. To get home I had to walk up a long staircase up a cliff, between some condo patios, down some residential streets, across a highway, past other residences, across some railroad tracks, up another hill, up some stairs and across the 2nd floor open walkway to my apartment.
So I did what I had to do. I made a deal with God never to surf naked again unless it were legal.
Immediately, my boardshorts floated to the surface near me.
There is a God, I guess.
Nah! You could have gotten around nude with a legal reason!!!!
Xox
“We are seeing a large influx of folks coming in that have no interest in getting naked or enjoying the beach,”
Well… apparently they ARE enjoying the beach.
I often walk my dog on the beach, but always bring a plastic bag to remove large logs.
you would think that if these Wreck Beach regulars cared so much about the beach, they would remove their own large logs.
Can’t tell if this is some weird troll or joke, but the logs in question are huge, and would need to be removed with machinery.. They are also deliberately placed and arranged thoughtfully on the beach to break it up into sections, provide privacy, and seating. We don’t want them removed, they are a feature of the beach
Let me spell it out for you….
It’s a joke. Logs being slang for dog shit. Plastic bags to remove the logs. Controversial logs being removed from beach.
But I agree, let’s just let sleeping logs lie.
you didn’t realize that you entered the Beach Grit zone where nothing is what you think it is.
it was just a joke, so relax and go back to showing everyone your nuts.
That being a double entendre….and also a joke.
🤙
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Isn’t that a pic of the human motor boat from the sponge bob movie?
comic strips are welcome…fwd EOS~ or to negs…or both. WSL since 1973…
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Pitching tents at the beach. I’m all in for a good scamper.
dress codes are for the underappreciated, so sadly
Get Carter and get him now.
“and filming women and children”
who the fuck takes a child to a nude beach though?
Canada*
Depends on the environment. If this one had relative privacy, moms might take little kids to play in the water.
People hear “nude” and think it’s Club Hedonism, but there are some environments where people might be naked but it’s not at all like that. Hot springs in the Sierra and PNW for example.
I have to assume the beach in BC is similar to PNW hot springs culture, or was, when there were logs to make it hard to just stare at people across the beach.
Russian gal here…join us in st petersburg for a sauna with the boyz…
Norwegan gal…join me for a threesome with the swedish sunscreen models…
Tim: Elysian Gardens?
Siri: “Who leads the National League in stolen bases?”
Rennasiance is alive and well…
Siri: “Why don’t greek statues have biggger johnsons?”
Tik-Toc video: “I’m baitin’ on the beach…”
At a remote PNW hot spring, any level of perverted activity is not accepted. And some people have guns in their packs.
OTOH at some, certainly not all, nude beaches, it can be more like a gay orgy.
It’s really situational.
situational comedy across the spectrum…watched woodstock 99 and as far as female nudity goes, only saw one gal who was definitely a 10; which is as rare as wave scores in Surf City, ElSal…one is what ? 4-5 hundred in total rides? so you’re a nudist?
European thing