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San Francisco Tests its Limits on Public Nudism

‘No shoes, no shirt, no service’ is a sign you see in a lot of US stores. In San Francisco, restaurateurs might soon have to add ‘no pants’ to the list, as a row flares over nudism in the vibrant heart of the city’s gay community.

On a sunny September day, Woody Miller strolls through the district, known as Castro. He’s tall and fit, with a long grey beard and heavy silver nose ring – and wearing nothing more than sneakers, a baseball cap and a watch.

‘I go naked on a nice day because I like the feel of the sun and the air on my skin,’ says Mr Miller, 55, who is one of the city’s growing number of public nudists, popularly known as Naked Guys.

‘There’s nothing obscene about the human body,’ he adds. ‘The belief that there is is something that’s taught. It’s just another form of prejudice.’ Home to the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro – where sex shops coexist with trendy cafes and bars – is still one of the most free-thinking neighbourhoods in this famously liberal city.
2011.09.28 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Anya Naked At A Public Playground

Take a look at the free nude pictures of this amazing 18-year old stripping and posing naked at a public playground. Great nudist pictures and free!
2010.03.29 / no responses / Category: Nudist Pictures
A Beautiful Woman Hitch-Hiking Naked

It’s a popular subject for nude photography. But you will never see it in real life. Sad, but true. And we understand women’s reasons for this. Quite right. But at Body in Mind we are all about letting our imaginations work overtime when it comes to female beauty and it seems to make a lot of sense to us to make photos and videos of precisely the kinds of situations involving beautiful women that you might otherwise never see – a world in which men are on their best behaviour and women are perfectly free to use their beauty as they see fit. What would such a world look like? Well if you’re Nikkala Stott and you’re stranded in the desert it would look exactly like our latest “beauty video” by DBell called “a Little Hitch”.
2010.02.09 / no responses / Category: Nudist Movies
Love Is In The Air Along S.F.’s Market Street

Thousands of people dressed in neon wigs, sparkly butterfly wings, tutus – or occasionally nothing at all – and danced, hula hooped and hugged their way down San Francisco’s Market Street on Saturday for the city’s sixth annual celebration of love.

Based on Berlin’s Love Parade, San Francisco’s LoveFest was renamed this year to LovEvolution to avoid legal action from the promoters of the Love Festival in Los Angeles who had trademarked their name. But potential lawsuits – or the dire economy or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – didn’t appear to be on anybody’s mind.

“It’s people coming together, having fun, dancing their asses off and just forgetting the world’s troubles for a day,” said Sterling Alexander, who danced wearing silver devil horns affixed to his bald head and red, feathery wings.

Also celebrating were several people dressed as hot dogs, a man in a furry pink outfit walking on stilts, a girl giving out free hugs and bare-chested men offering free kisses.

The event shut down Market Street between Second Street and Civic Center and was expected to draw 10,000 revelers. Shoppers and tourists on the busy thoroughfare looked downright perplexed, several stopped to ask what the 20-plus floats blaring electronic music as scantily clad people gyrated on them were all about. The naked man covered in gold body paint and carrying a red bow and arrow proved particularly worthy of double-takes.

Megan Lehrer, 18, and her friends had traveled from Discovery Bay for the event and looked like extras from the movie “Flashdance” in headbands and ripped T-shirts.

“It’s cracking – it’s fun!” she said. “It’s about peace and love.”
2009.10.08 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Clothes Were Off At San Onofre Nudist Rally

Joelle Budzynowski wants to preserve what she calls her “Eden before the apple.”

“The water is like 70 degrees and the sun feels warm on my nude body,” the 47-year-old said, wearing nothing but a straw hat. “The wind plays in my hair. The sea rocks me. Some of my happiest moments are here.”

The nudist rally comes nearly a week after officials started enforcing a ban on nudity. For more than a year, the state Department of Parks and Recreation said they would start citing nude sunbathers after Labor Day weekend at the traditionally clothing-optional beach.

The state’s move came after more than a year of legal wrangling and an appellate court ruling in its favor. The nudists have appealed to the state’s Supreme Court, asking the court for a hearing.

More than a hundred nudist gathered on the beach Sunday with signs denouncing the state’s crackdown on public nudity at Trail 6.

When asked whether the protest may make an impact, the group’s leader answered.

“It shows the Parks Department that we’re not willing to go away,” said Allen Baylis, who is a Huntington Beach attorney.

Veronica Carlson, who enjoyed the beach with her husband, 3-year-old twins and 18-month old, said she sees nothing wrong with nudity at Trail 6.

She said her children are not fazed by the naked body.

“You’re born that way. There’s nothing wrong with it,” the 35-year-old Lake Forest woman said.

Carlson said she goes nude at the beach but keeps her children’s clothes on because she’s afraid of the sun’s toll on their sensitive skin.

“I think it’s small-minded,” she said of the nudity ban. “It doesn’t hurt anyone and if it’s something you don’t want to see, don’t come here. There are 4 miles of beach. … If we get a ticket, we get a ticket. We’ll fight it.”

State rangers didn’t issue any citations last Tuesday – the first day of enforcement. While state parks spokesman Roy Stearns said officials have the authority to cite nudists at the 1,000-foot stretch of beach, some of the nudists at the beach Sunday said they hadn’t heard of a ticket being issued all week.

The nudists’ attorney Elva P. Kopacz contends the state would violate California law by issuing citations. She said a Superior Court ruling that sides with the naturists will stand until the state’s Supreme Court decides to hear an appeal.

Stearns disagreed. The state Attorney General’s office says rangers are within their rights to start writing citations, according to Stearns.

Still, he said, park rangers will attempt to seek voluntary compliance before handing out citations at the beach.
2009.09.21 / no responses / Category: Nudist News