"Nude Beach" and "Nudist beach" redirect here. For the Bob's Burgers episode, see Nude Beach (Bob's Burgers). For the fictional guerrilla fighter group "Nudist Beach", see Kill la Kill.
Family in Abricó Beach, Brazil
A nude beach, sometimes called a clothing-optional or free beach, is a beach where users are at liberty to be nude. Nude beaches usually have mixed bathing. Such beaches are usually on public lands, and any member of the public is allowed to use the facilities without membership in any movement or subscription to any personal belief. The use of the beach facilities is normally anonymous. Unlike a naturist resort or facility, there is normally no membership or vetting requirement for the use of a nude beach. The use of nude beach facilities is usually casual, not requiring pre-booking. Nude beaches may be official (legally sanctioned), unofficial (tolerated by residents and law enforcement), or illegal.
The number of nude beaches in some countries is relatively low, and they are generally located some distance away from the city. Access is at times more difficult than at a regular beach and the facilities at these beaches tend to be very basic with a few notable exceptions. In other countries, like Denmark, most beaches are clothing-optional. Nude swimming is one of the most common forms of nudity in public. A nude beach should not be confused with a topless beach (or top-free beach), where upper body clothing is not required for women or men, although a swimming costume covering the genital area is required for both men and women. A nude beach should be considered as a clothes-free beach.
Nude beaches tend to be separate or isolated physically from non-nude bathing areas. In other instances people maintain a comfortable space between beach users. Signage is often used to warn unfamiliar beach users about the specially designated areas on the beach. This accommodates people who are not comfortable with nudity, as well as nude beach users who do not like to be watched by clothed individuals, particularly those engaged in voyeurism.
A nudebeach, sometimes called a clothing-optional or free beach, is a beach where users are at liberty to be nude. Nudebeaches usually have mixed bathing...
isolated places known mainly to locals through officially designated nudebeaches and parks, and on to public spaces and buildings in some jurisdictions...
Nude recreation consists of recreational activities which some people engage in while nude. Historically, the ancient Olympic Games were nude events....
popularity in the 1960s–1970s of public "nudebeaches" in the United States, acceptance is declining, confining American nude swimming generally to private locations...
for nude pictures of celebrities taken unaware – for example, when they are bathing topless or nude at what the subject thought was a secluded beach, or...
normally forbidden. Nude bathing on beaches is illegal in Anguilla. Captain's Bay is a secluded beach where people do bathe in the nude (illegally). Hawksbill...
understood norms. Designating a beach or other recreational area as "clothing optional" is recognizing that being nude for swimming and sunbathing is not...
Community Standards. Bathing and sunbathing in the nude (including topless) is legal on Danish beaches. Nudity and toplessness in other public outdoor places...
The northern 0.4-mile (0.6 km) of the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) shoreline is a nudebeach officially recognized and approved by the government of Miami-Dade County...
nature. Erotic photography is often distinguished from nude photography, which contains nude subjects not necessarily in an erotic situation, and pornographic...
recreation. This list includes topfree beaches, clothing-optional beaches (or nudebeaches) and some resorts. Topfree beaches allow women to sunbathe without...
German naturists on a nudebeach. Germans, who are extremely low in cultural context, maintain public propriety on a nudebeach by not wearing adornments...
unaware—for example, when they are bathing topless or nude at what the subject thought was a secluded beach, or taken before the individual was well known....
Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography...
of any form of sexuality have been controversial, and in the case of most nude scenes, had to be justified as part of the story. Nudity in film should be...
area with nude fishers and their families. Smelt fishing is typically prohibited from the middle of June to the middle of August. Acadia Beach is short...
Physical Well-Being" for The Nudist, an American magazine, in 1938; it showed nude women practising yoga, accompanied by a text on attention to the breath....
boasts being the only legal nudebeach in Mexico, but is often likened to a town stuck in the 1960s. With the entire beach being clothing optional, it...
northern section of Baker Beach is "frequented by clothing-optional sunbathers," and as such it is considered a nudebeach. The 160 acres (65 ha) property...
legend, there was no nude bathing en masse on the part of the United States Army garrison that led to the formation of the nudebeach. It was the discovery...
some male deities were nude. Later, portrait statues of the rich, including Roman imperial families, were given idealized nude bodies; by now this included...
first and only legal public nudebeach and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The beach is popular with foreign tourists...
legal nudebeach. Access to the legal nude section is from the right side of the car park which is approximately 500 meters from the start of the nude beach...
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