Your Nude Opportunity

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  GSNPhil

  Oct 26, 2016

  [quote]If you have something similar in your city(according to the article), or somewhere nearby, would you ...
  [/quote]I find articles like that to be depressing. And authors like that to be narrow minded and backwards. And 99% of the people who comment underneath it, even worse. Why do they think that ALL beaches must be alike (and textile)?
  
  Anyhow, I'll go with "a".
  Having said that, I don't have a good strategy to deal with some idiot trying to harass and intimidate people with a camera. I know what I'd be tempted to do but I don't think it's legal (or civil).
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Oct 28, 2016

  
  
  [quote]...authors like that ... And 99% of the people who comment...[/quote] Setting your feelings regarding the author and the comments others made, how many of us(WA state residents excluded) can say that we have something like this in our city?
  
  [quote]Why do they think that ALL beaches must be alike (and textile)?[/quote] Well, it'sNOT a beach.
  
  It's a park in the middle of Seattle where anyone can be nude without fear of citation or arrest. This is not a hypothetical scenario. It's real.
  
  What would you do?
  
  
  

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  GSNPhil

  Oct 28, 2016

  [quote] Well, it's NOT a beach. It's a park in the middle of Seattle where anyone can be nude without fear of citation or arrest. This is not a hypothetical scenario. It's real. What would you do?
  [/quote]Ok, it's a park.
  And the author of the article is very much opposed to the nudity there. He's recommending that others of the same mindset go out and walk around taking pictures of the nudists, for no other purpose than to run nudists out of the area. He seems to think that's a good solution to his "nudist problem".
  
  If you're asking "what would I do" about bands of textiles intentionally harassing nudists with cameras, frankly, I don't know. But if someone else has a workable strategy, other than violent confrontation, I would like to hear it.
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Nov 4, 2016

  Thanks for your answer GSNPhil [quote]Anyhow, I'll go with "a".[/quote]
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Nov 4, 2016

  
  Do you further nudism by taking advantage of this opportunity?
  --OR--
  Does it hurt/set back nudism?
  
  
  

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  Curt

  Dec 4, 2016

  I go all the time to Denny Blaine Park when the weather is warm and hang out naked on the beach. I don't care if people take my picture, I have pictures posted here. On a sunny day the beach is packed with nudists and it's not only nude beach in the city. I don't think very many people care that much if they are photographed, we live in a new era where privacy is a thing of the past. Young people grew up online, I don't think it worries them that someone might take picture while naked on the beach anymore than it would bother most people to be photographed in a bathing suit.

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  Bob

  Dec 5, 2016

  I live in Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. So that puts me about 3,000 miles from Seattle. Out of curiosity I used Google Earth to check out Denny Blaine Park. It appears to be very small with a tiny beach area., not much room to spread out. (I hope the picture makes it into this post.)
  
  Bob
  
  
  [Edit: 12/06/2016 10:00 PM EST] You should be able to see the picture by clicking on the link.

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• ME

  Member

  Dec 8, 2016

  I'd go with Option A too.. .
  
  I lived in the Seattle area during the late 1980's and 90's. Compared to attitudes in other parts of the US, I find openness to nudity refreshing in the Pacific NW. Back then the Arboretum was the place for nude sunning and even hiking along the secluded trails that skirted a residential neighborhood. Also heard of nude activity, at the time, in Seward Park but never got to check it out. It's great, though, that Washington and Oregon have no laws prohibiting nudity [em]per se[/em] (although some local town ordinances do).. .
  
  If I remember correctly, Seattle may have been the first city in the US (perhaps along with a few others in Vermont, plus San Francisco) to have a Naked Bike Ride. Thanks, too, to several active members of The Naturists--Mark Storey, Daniel Johnson [em]et al[/em]., nudity has been a featured part of the Fremont Solstice Parade for years.. .
  
  I now live near NYC, where I'm from originally, and attitudes here are provincial at best. Though New York sees itself as quite free thinking and open, there is a closed minded attitude towards nudity. The Naked Bike Ride hasn't really taken hold here. There are several beaches on Long Island where nudity was "tolerated" but has been forbidden since Superstorm Sandy several years ago, under the pretext that dunes were washed away in the storm and nudists are now visible--gimme' a break!

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Dec 13, 2016

  [quote]I go all the time to Denny Blaine Park ...another nude beach just south of Denny Blaine named Howell Park ...[/quote] Lucky you ... am very jealous
  From your response, that would be "A".
  
  [quote]... I find openness to nudity refreshing in the Pacific NW ...[/quote] There's a post in WNBR Seattle twitter feed that you don't need to wait for World Naked Bike Ride to ride your bike nude.

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Dec 13, 2016

  Bob,
  Thanks for the Google Earth image. It places the park in the right perspective (location and size).

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Jan 9, 2017

  I see it.

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• ME

  Member

  Jan 10, 2017

  The camera problem is easy...pose for them ask them to join you for a selfi pic. I find talking to textiles freaks them out.

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