RE:Need some advice

What is a nude beachI thought nude means no clothes so why do I go to pirates cobe nude beach in Pismo Beach CA and see clothes?My opinion I think when assigned as a nude beach legally, it's actually meant to be a clothing-optional beach. Precisely because no one, not the gov't or authority, is enforcing it as a mandatory-nude beach. Furthermore, the beaches & surroundings are not enclosed or barricaded, unless they are private land.So far, the many legal nude beaches I've been to in Australia and New Zealand are all clothing-optional.If there is any mandatory-nude beaches, I would surely like to know. Thank you.

I heard that on the nude section of Orient beach, you can walk clothed, but if you stop and sit or go in the water, you must be nude.
Also, many clothing optional resorts are nude mandatory in the pool and the area immediately surrounding it.

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RE:Need some advice

I call it a nude beach if I can go there naked. In reality they are nearly all Clothes Optional. So we get a mix of nudes and clothed. Even where swimwear is banned it is hard to enforce, as on Torn beach in Spain for example. The one place where I have seen it enforced (by nude beach goers) was on the swingers' end of the beach at Cap d'Agde. That was when 4 young men in shorts attempted to watch the naked sex.

Go to the long nude beach at Maspalomas and you will see all three. Those bathing and sunbathing are all nude. But there is a constant parade of clothed people walking along the water's edge. And the dunes behind the beach have areas frequented by swingers and by gays.

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