Vermont nudists anger clothes-wearing residents

[edbermac]

WESTMORE, Vt. — From the beach of Lake Willoughby's Southwest Cove, the sheer cliffs of Mount Pisgah tower over the deep, frigid water. Across the narrows, Mount Hor's peak completes the look of a Scandinavian fjord.

In the summertime, the beach offers a different view: naked sunbathers. Southwest Cove is one of the most famous nude beaches in the country, but there's a move under way to make people put their suits back on. For decades, people have come to visit the beach, which is listed in nudist guides and on Web sites. All are welcome, naked or not, while cameras without permission and sexual behavior are forbidden.

The beach is on public land that isn't visible from the highway. The state _ which has no laws banning public nudity _ advises visitors with a sign at a trail head leading to the beach that warns "be advised, you may encounter nude bathers." But some Westmore residents want to be able to use the beach without having to worry they or their kids will confront a naked person. They're pushing the town to pass an anti-nudity ordinance.

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Bob Drew, a summer resident who lives in Knoxville, Tenn., and is president of the 350-family Westmore Association, said the group's 11-member board was split 6-5 in favor of the nudity ordinance.

"We all have our personal feelings about it. I just don't go down there," said Drew, 75, "Most of them are fat old men like me. Who wants to see them?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/17/vermont-nudist-beach-thre_n_107530.html

[Parche]

1. He Has A Big Wood

:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Love Bug]

2. "Most of them are fat old men like me. Who wants to see them?"

See, that's the problem. Few would be complaining if the nudists were comely young women, so their objections are really just bullshit.

[JoDog]

3. That's the Murphy's law

of nude beaches...there's no one there you actually WANT to look at.

[Carnea]

7. Nom there objections are legitimate. It would be bullshit if they were against nudity

that would be wrong... They are against ugly that is a whole different matter.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. It's the old Helen Lovejoy argument...

Will somebody *please* think of the children?


When will people in this country get over their hang-ups on the human body? Not everyone who enjoys getting a full body tan is a friggen pervert. I'd personally never have the self-confidence to go out nude like that...and I kind of respect people who are that free

[LeftinOH]

5. The photo explains precisely why people might be angered..

for shit's sake.. cover that mess up!

[DS1]

6. Isn't that the guy from CHiPS?

No, the other, more talented, one.