Leap 4 Love

" . . . the Oasis, the area's only natural beach"--What area? How are you defining "natural"? The Oasis would be much different without the human-made breakwater. I don't see how it's more "natural" than Trail 4 or 5 beaches, or Acadia Beach, for instance.
6: The map is missing Ulksen, Point Grey, the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver city limits, the extent of the "clothing-optional" beach (see p. 54.3.6), Jurassic Park, a compass rose, and the map artist's name. The words "Tower Beach" should be between the towers. No place here is named "Main Beach"; rather, "the main beach" (not a proper name) is merely a description of where most people go. The scale should show 500 metres, too, or more. Each of the phrases "100 m" and "500 ft" should be spaced as 2 words.

(This paragraph added 2008 September 5:) Musqueam Reserve is not shown, though there are the words with an arrow; the word "reserve" should be capitalised. The "Trolley bus loop" has been closed for years. The contour lines should be labelled in m (not just mentioned in the legend). A marsh area is labelled "Marsh aka Scary Grass": should add 3 periods to make it "a.k.a."; also "Marsh" is not its proper name, so it should be in lower case ("marsh"). Other similar problems with common nouns being capitalised on this map.

   Between 6 and 7?: Organising a book's contents non-chronologically can be valid. However, to ease the resulting confusion, the readers need a couple of pages of chronology. Such a listing of dates can list also the specific pages in this book where the events are mentioned.
   7: About the weather in August and the rest of the year, I hope your readers around the world (who have never been to BC and are deciding when to visit) realise how much you're exaggerating for effect.
   7.4.2: The middle of June is in the spring.
   8.1.1: "adjacent to . . . Spanish Banks" should be "to the west of . . . Spanish Banks West Beach". The banks themselves ("Spanish Banks") are sand banks under the water quite a way from shore. You can see a bit of them at low tide. Those banks are not the same as the beach named after Spanish Banks. That error is repeated throughout the book, such as pp. 10.3.3, 10.3.6, 60.2.4, and probably 30.0.4.
   10.1.1: "You drove . . . ."--No, I never have.
   10.2.1: "just past Trail Six"--What direction of travel?
   10.3.3: "from the end of Spanish Banks" (which end?) should be "from west of the westernmost concession stand at Spanish Banks West Beach" (unless I was told wrong). Sure, the reader probably can figure it out from the context, but why make her struggle and waste time?
   10.3.6:   "is located just past Spanish Banks"-- Redundant word "located" (and pp. 69.1.5, 70.3.3, and 82.5.3). Also, which direction is "past"? Also, "Spanish Banks" is the wrong name (see p. 8.1.1 above).
   10.5.6: "the Joyce Skytrain Station"--Delete "the". The newcomer won't know if she is to board or alight from the train here. And you never say whether to go east or west on the east-west avenues. No, it's not obvious to all newcomers, not even all literate newcomers. You don't show a map for that.
   11.1.3: "no way around the hill." No, you yourself say that you can walk around on the beach or come by boat, and that Acadia Beach is an option.
   11.1.4: "along 16th"--Which direction? And tell the newbies and Surreyites that it's an avenue. "short and exceedingly sharp"--Angles are sharp; hills are steep.
   11.1.5: "Alma"--Tell the newbies it's a street.
   11.2.1,3: "take 10th . . . 8th" avenues.
   12.0.6: "Gravel grounds bicycle tires"--I read that phrase 2 or 3 times before I understood "grounds".
   12.2.3: "unless you look."--Well, who wouldn't look, a blind person? You seem to be saying that you can see the beach from there if you do look. I think you can, but only after all the leaves have fallen.
   12.2.5: "not the sort of place people stumble upon." Quite a few people claim to have walked around unawares from Spanish Banks West Beach and have been offended by nudity at Acadia Beach or Tower Beach. On a slow day they might not see a nudist until they get to Trail 6.
   12.2.7: "into which a human being could easily disappear"--gratuitous gruesomeness. Makes the reader really wonder about you!
   13.1.9: The unneeded detail about the "sketched paths" will only encourage needless damage to the plants there.
   13.3.end: "always tied here"--Not always.
   15.2.2: "as best they can" should be "as well as they can" or "the best they can".
   17.1.10: "equally valid"--No, much more valid.
   17: The gawkers don't include very many hetero females. I think their main motivation for not stripping is fear, as I told you, but you mention it not here. Fear of attack, of being gawked at, of being judged, of being different. Maybe invite them to an indoor nude swim, which is (or feels) safer (You do later, on page ___ . Thanks!).
   17.2.10 and 86.3: "bucktails"--I never heard that one. I told you "cottontails", which you mention not. Did you mix them up in your head?
   17.3.1: One or more musical sections.
   18.0.4 and 86.2.1: "only by men" and "Men-only"--I really doubt if they'd mind you (or any female) joining the game. There's much sexism in the world, but I doubt that it's here. They'd welcome you playing, I think, especially if you, donated a prize, as they do. Did you or any female try? Let's not imagine sexism where it doesn't exist. That's an unfair slur against the beach-goers. Or are you saying that men are more likely to consider a beer to be something of value to be sought in a game, since we are the stupider, drunker sex? (True, on average.)
   18.1.2: "cans of soda"--They could be forgone to improve health.
   18.1.4,5: "always . . . permanent"--No, not on deserted days.
   18.1.8: "dreadful"--Many find those colourful beach sheets attractive. If you want to criticise, maybe you could start with the junk food (page 18.1.2 above and 18.1.9 below, etc.).
   18.1.9: "hot dogs (real and ersatz)"--Makes veggie dogs sound kind of bad.
   21.0.7: "admit . . . no ill effects"--One can't "admit" a falsehood.
   21.3.2 and many other similar instances: "hundreds of feet"--We've been metric in Canada for 3 decades. Or did I get your book's US edition by mistake?
   22.0.2: "they . . . pass you going the other way"--They walk north only?
   23.2.3: " `stache"--Use an apostrophe (’), not an opening single quotation mark (`).
   23.3.6 to 9: "closest you'll find . . . segregates itself"--Actually, much less segregated than the musicians, skimmers, and nude Nazis you previously mentioned.
   23.3.end: "unofficial latrine"--Untrue. That implies grass-roots approval. I'd say "is a place inconsiderate boors piss when no one notices." Or simply omit it as not essential.
   24.1.1 to 4: "Past the breakwater . . . other side . . . direction you've been walking"--Every 5 or 6 pages, why not remind the confused newcomer which direction your literary tour is headed?
   24.3: Unless it was human interference which caused the collapse!
   24.4: How'd you get back to the breakwater? You were just describing the Oasis. Are you sure you were "too late"?!
   24.5.1: "tip"--Which end is that? See also 87.9.1.
   26.end: "behind the breakwater"--Where "behind" is depends on where you start. Neither side is obviously "behind".
   27.2.1: "except the nudist."--And the always-naked "primitive" people who, if any still exist, are being exterminated and assimilated by imperialism. And the ancestors of us all.
   27.end: "not a precursor to sex."--Then where'd they get those kids? In this chapter (2) you make us sound a little more anti-sex than we are. Didn't we talk about this? Though some deny it, you can be a true nudist even if you have sexual thoughts while socially nude. The point is that we just don't equate the 2 conditions. We want to attract everyone to nudism, so we refrain from being sexual when it might repel people. It's more for that practical reason than that we all believe that open sexuality is inherently wrong. We certainly recognise that everyone has the right to refuse sex and sexual harassment, whether in a burqa, bikini, or bare. Equating nudity and sex is a patriarchal excuse for rape. Part of the fallen Eve myth.
   28 (second to last line): "evident distaste."--More likely weariness.
   30.0.4: "in the direction of Spanish Banks"--As the crow flies or around the point on the beach? Starting from where? You haven't said your beach location for several pages.
   33.5.1: "that trip down the trail"--Which trip? Which trail?
   36.0.5: "gingersnaps"--2 words.
   36.2.2: "fit in with the let-it-be beach ethos"--your pro-dope opinion, apparently. I concede, though, that alcohol causes more disruption on average, per user, on the beach.
   36.2.3: "sourced"--Couldn't remember the word "picked"?
   36.3.3: "1983"--Typo. You meant 1893?
   36.4.3: "was the next"--Nothing in the intervening 2 decades?
   36: Many regulars, including in the WBPS, condone the crack-downs, even some who drink at the beach but who recognise that without some limits, things would get way out-of-hand.
   37.0.4: "onlookers . . . their use of excessive force". A pronoun generally refers to the previous noun.
   37.2.4: "still known as the Pharmacy."--to a few indiscreet blabbermouths, maybe, but almost everyone has better public-relations sense. See also Glossary.
   37.2.8: "and the drumming had started."--Is drumming a gateway to hard drugs or vice versa?
   38.0 last sentence: "drug dealers . . . are far less visible". It's that vanishing creme they've been rubbing all over themselves.
   38.1.4: "Surrey tattooed-pit-bull set"--Do the dogs obligingly shave themselves so we can admire their tattoos?
   38.1.6: "German horror dogs"--Did you tell Dennis that pit-bulls are English?
   38.2: The skim-boarders claim they need textiles to save their bums when they wipe out onto the rough sand, but they (almost all male) are scared to disrobe when they are not skimming, too.
   38.4: "The night people"--More specifically, the night boozers. Sober people are pretty considerate at night.
   39.2.1: "Victimless crime may be the norm"--You haven't made a very good case that boozing on the beach is victimless.
   40.3.5, 54.1.3, and 54.3.1 to 3: "the park board"--At first mention you did not state who they are, though you do in the second: the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation a.k.a. the Vancouver park board. You don't say until p. 60.2.1 & 2 that (according to the European invaders) until 1989 the board had been the governing authority of the beach. You could also add that the board had that authority in spite of the university coast never being within the Vancouver city limits. However, UBC and the beach have always been Vancouver in the public mind and for postal addresses.
   41.1.4: "hovercraft, which is on hand"--To the naive reader this falsely makes the hovercraft sound close. They're a few km away in another municipality, Richmond.
   45.1.1,2: The Musqueam didn't have any swimming costumes, and they'd go nude at other times, too, as I told you. Therefore, in this paragraph, why not credit them as the first proto-nudists? (You hint about it later: p. 46.1.5 to 8.)
   45.3.1: "the cliff top"--Why not specify that you're back to Wreck Beach?
   46.3.7: ". . . ends in a delta, that is, fresh water disperses . . ."--Irrelevant: fresh water mixes with salt water at the mouth of every river, whether there is a delta or not.
   46.3.9; "parallel to the river's mouth"--Lines can be parallel. To which line in the mouth are you referring?
   47.2.7 and 49.0.3: "Day, told a reporter" and "Day told the Straight". Didn't those articles come out under my by-line, Mr. Natural, rather than as printed quotes, and didn't they lack my real name? There was no one else reporting it as far as I remember.
   47.2.8 and 49.1.1: "he had not yet been to the beach" and "visited . . . for the first time". I told you that I did not go nude to the nude-in, not that I had not been there at all before the nude-in. I attended the nude-in anonymously in my college jock-strap! Newly in Canada, I was afraid of being busted to the US Army if I went nude. However, I certainly went there before the nude-in while deciding whether or not to switch the venue--in order to get the opinion of the people there. I wasn't a COMPLETE incompetent about it.
   48.1.6: "on the third weekend of August"--I told you specifically Sunday, August 23, 1970. That date is in the articles you have. You're making it hard for someone to celebrate the anniversary.
   49.1.3: "2,000 protesters"--I'm absolutely sure that I told you 3,000. I'm quite unhappy about this error.
   49.2.1: "one beachgoer who opted to plead guilty"--I remember 6 pleading guilty.
   49.4.8: "indecency"--Should be "indecent act". Then on page 84.1.3 you call it "indecent exposure", the USAmerican term. Both are wrong, but you're not even consistent.
   50.0.3+: "Attorney General" is a common noun and adjective (without capital letters) unless the official's personal name follows.
   50: Here would be a good place to mention that no one has been charged with nudity at Wreck in the 37 years since.
   50.1.1: "The Defence Fund" should be Free Beach Defence Fund. You have the clipping.
   52.0.3; 67.0.3; & 75.1.4: "dredgate" is spelt "dredgeate" (3 E's) in most results by Google: www.caspianenvironment.org/scripts/diction.pl?word=d

Trap 3: Clad Conflict

Wearing clothes and seeing clothed people subtly alienates and isolates you psychologically. Clothing for fear or to try to raise your status creates more of the problem meant to be overcome.

Clothing gives a false sense of security from attack and scorn, but hinders true social harmony and intimacy, including sexual pleasure. Western culture fears the power of loving sex. Therefore, affection is severely reduced, especially for young adults.

Elaboration:

1. Clothing and adornment for unloving purposes, that is, for "modesty", "decency", imagined safety, social dominance, bragging, conformity, alienation, another's taste, fraud, concealing weapons, anonymity, or to hide behind.

2. Unloving clothing restrictions: dress codes which mandate certain attire and hairstyles or which restrict the revealing of skin or hair. Also unloving is requiring clothing based on whether one is male or female. Such restrictions can be effected by laws, customs, threats, or other social (?) strictures enforcement.

3. Clothes and body care which are physically unhealthy or dangerous, including tight or snug clothing, pointed-toe shoes, high heels, bras, dangerous chemical cosmetics, pesticide-grown cotton, chemical gels in nappies (diapers), and most cosmetic surgery.

4. Unloving sex restrictions, such as prudery, sexual ignorance, sexual dysfunction, involuntary chastity, and throw-away sex partners.

5. Fake Love, such as prostitutes, strippers, and porn.

6. Clothes which inhibit breastfeeding by hiding the breasts. (See Part 1.)

Lies against Leap 3

"Sex is just for reproduction."

Sexual acts should be an attempt to express love between 2 people. The more mature they are, the likelier their success. That love-bond is the most important aspect of sex, not the possibility of producing a baby. That is why human beings have sex even when there is no chance for a woman to get pregnant. Few other animals besides us do that, though our closest relatives do, such as Bonobo chimpanzees.

Therefore, gay sex is just as functional as sex among elderly or otherwise infertile heterosexuals. Either way, sex can create or reinforce bonds of love which help the individuals and help society as a whole.

"Rampant nudity and sex are harmful and immoral."

Is unloving sex therefore immoral or evil? Not necessarily. If it is an ATTEMPT at loving sex, and unforced, it is probably good practice for the real thing. As bear cubs practice "play fighting" and "play sex", so do humans. It's all for good if the individuals then learn to be successful.

Suppressing sex among adolescents is unnecessary torture. We let them "play fight" with instruction and supervision, such as football and wrestling. So why not similarly teach them safer sex? If you parents would remember how miserable most of you were for most of your teen years, you might overcome your cruel reluctance for your teenagers to pursue happiness. Do you think they don't notice the hypocrisy of you urging abstinence when you don't practice it yourself? Let them learn love and sex and they might forget all about getting stoned and driving fast and gang fights, etc.

People raised in the nude with healthy attitudes toward sex are better off emotionally.

"Sexuality must be hidden by clothing."

. . .

"Tolerating nudity will lead to public sex acts."

Social nudity is feared in part because people think it will lead to sex acts in public. Almost all private nudist sites prohibit open sex acts. They occur at some public nude beaches, but usually well away from the crowds. The people there can engage each other democratically to be either restrictive or tolerant, whatever they want. In your home, of course, you can do that even easier.

Why can nudity be arousing?

   Unfortunately, many of us get no closer to a life of Nude-peace than buying synthetic images or fantasy stories of that imagined life. After making real-life nudity rare, expensive, and/or stressful, society fetishises it. That is, mere nudity can be sexually exciting. That would not be enough to arouse someone very much who was raised with Nude-peace.  For the latter, as for animals, other conditions are needed, especially an interested partner.
   If you begin to practice Nude-peace, you might at first react as a fetishist. But as you become accustomed to non-sexual activities in the nude, you will begin to see nudity as natural and good and pleasant beyond its sexual aspect. For most people, that happens to a great extent in the first 3 minutes at a proper nudist resort or beach.
   Don't worry, you will still be able to function sexually.

End of article 1: "Leap 3 is Nude-peace".

Article 2. Below is the text of a pamphlet I published in BC> Vancouver, 1983 April 11. It was an unofficial prelude to the city's massive, official Walk for Peace. The march began in Vancouver> Kitsilano Beach Park, 1983 April 23.

NUDE WAVE

TO SPLASH 30 000 PEACE BUMS

STRIP OFF YOUR CLASS, SEX ROLE, MATERIALISM, AND SHAME!

Peacestreak! Disarm yourself!

The world's mounting, urgent mania for peace marches will escalate in Vancouver on [1983] April 23.

The Nudepeace Society is impatient with the usual marching and speeches. The time is ripe for more shocking strategic action!

We will turn the annual disarmament stroll, the Walk for Peace, into a prankish display of the primal urge to throw down our armament, to strip ourselves naked of all uniforms, military and civilian. Truce!

This is the natural reaction to authorities suppressing whole-body freedom. They convert the resulting human insecurities into macho militarism and timid civilian complicity.

Imagine catching Reagan and Andropov with their pants down! [The leaders of the USA and the USSR at the time.]

Undress for success!

The march begins at noon at Kitsilano Beach. We will then begin voluntary full and partial disrobing. It will spread like a "nude wave" throughout the legions. Gawkers who object may press their channel selectors.

To show your gentle, newborn-baby innocence, gather in the centre of the assembling marchers. Note the Nudepeace signs. No one will be ridiculed for going nude or not.

Reclaim your body!

Reclaim peace!

Body paints and Hallowe'en masks could be photogenic. Bag your clothes. If cold, maybe wear clear plastic.

Public mood ready

On March 28 the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver let a Doukhobor woman strip and remain nude in court for two days because she believed in being in the purest state. That has been happening in BC for years.

Wreck Beach [also known as Ulksen Beach, near Vancouver] has maintained nude rights since 1970 among an estimated 800 000 attendees.

Arrests or charges on April 23 are improbable. We'll fill the streets. (Maximum sentence is three years.)

Clothes cause war.

Nude is peace.

Some may think we'll distract from the peace movement with a scandalous, cheap, irrelevant gimmick. But we proclaim that nude rights are necessary for lasting peace.

Nudism:

-- unifies humanity into one loving family by removing our symbols of nationality, class, sex rule, wealth, prudery, shame, and paranoia.

-- calms aggressive feelings.

-- cures missionaries' fetishes, such as that tropical natives must cover their "indecency" with grass skirts. Colonization is war.

-- frees us from sexist, demeaning, teasing, costumes used to pervert sexual tastes, which add a sadistic element to war.

-- frees us from material greed expressed in competitive or expensive fashion. War is caused by greed, envy, and business suits.

-- feels scrumptiously free. Our straitjackets constrict our bodies and feelings, which leads to hostility and war.

-- drives out sexist porno. Sexism conditions us for international oppression.

-- outstrips the sick media which psych us into feeling we're ugly or abnormal looking, making us hide compulsively in our disguises. Imperialists prey on that slave mentality.

Nude urge persists

Nudity keeps popping up in history to show protest, celebration, or communion, often in springtime.

-- The ancient Greeks always had a truce for their nude Olympics.

-- Bible characters rent their clothing in sorrow.

-- Some witches' rites were nude.

-- Russians right after the Revolution frolicked nude by lakes and streams.

-- Throughout history, people have gone to streams, ponds, or oceans in the spring. We wash off the winter's grime, soak the sun's nourishing rays, and revive our spirits. Swimsuits are a recent desecration of this ancient rite.

-- Doukhobors have paraded nude in BC for several generations to protest war and government authority.

-- Modern nudist clubs for all ages started in the 1920s.

-- Nude beaches arose in the 1960s.

-- John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jim Morrison, and Grace Slick revolted publicly against war and anti-exposure laws. Recent local bands, such as East Van Halen and D.O.A., have, too.

-- Woodstock skinnydipped, as local BC country faires still do.

-- Funsters streaked the '70s.

-- Mothers nursed in public.

-- In the '80s, women asserted their equal right to go shirtless [now called "topfree"], including at Vancouver's Trout Lake. Europe is way ahead on this.

-- Youth in Suisse and Deutschland marched nude last summer.

-- Native prisoners are demanding their sweat lodges. (They are traditionally nude.)

-- Modern negotiators reach understandings easier in a sauna, a form of sweat lodge.

-- In New Delhi on April 6, 1 000 government workers angrily demonstrated in their underwear against itchy uniforms. Some communities in India still live nude.

THRILLS AND CHILLS!

DARING BARING!

STREAKING!

TRANSPARENT CLOTHES!

FLASHING!

IMITATION NUDITY!

POLAR BEARS!

NUDE COSTUMES!

STARKERS!

MOONING!

NAKED ANIMALS!

Nude, not nuke!

Our demonstration will transform peace-making methods around the globe.

Our spokesperson is the one who first called for nudity at Wreck Beach, Vancouver, for the mass "Nude-In" of 1970 August 23. That established it as one of the world's leading nude beaches.

(Also attend the [1983] July 2 Wreck Beach celebration.)

-- The Nudepeace Society -- Korky Day, 1983-4-11.

Below are the flier's illustrations and captions. Those parts written by me are underlined.

1. One frame of a Robert Crumb cartoon. An angry police says, "STREAKING WENT OUT WITH WATERBEDS AND WATERGATE . . . NOW WHAT'S YOUR STORY, MISTER!?" A naked Mr. Natural replies, "GOIN' TO KITS BEACH, APR. 23! LA LA LA!!"

2. Photograph of high-fashion clothed couple dancing with caption: "BEFORE: Dressed to kill." Photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono standing nude (from their record album cover "Two Virgins", I think) with caption: "AFTER: Give peace a prance."

3. "Doukhobors worship Mounties", sarcastic caption on a photograph of police harassing kneeling nude protesters, probably early 1960s, from Simma Holt's 1960s book Terror in the Name of God.

4. One frame of a Gilbert Shelton cartoon showing an undercover "narc" thinking he's dead and gone to heaven. He is disrobing, dropping his gun, and saying, "WELL, IF I'M IN PEACE I CERTAINLY WON'T NEED THIS PISTOL OR ALL THESE CLOTHES." Caption: "STRIP THE STATE!"

5. One frame of a Lee Marrs cartoon showing a miserable woman chained to a chair and forced to listen to the early 1960s hit song "ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE POLKA DOT BIKINI".

6. "QUESTION CLOTHING!" Photograph of "The Furbelows" (get it?) of Alice Beberman from Nude and Natural magazine from the Naturist Society. (See Other Web sites, upper left of your screen.)

7. Caption "Play for peace." E. Velez's photograph of a nude man and baby at Riis Park beach, NY, from Nude and Natural magazine (see # 6 above).

8. Caption "Cross your heart, hope to survive! BARETOP EQUALITY!" on photograph of topfree (bare-chested) women protesters in USA: California: downtown Santa Cruz, holding sign saying "cross your heart support network". Photograph by Clytia Fuller, from Nude and Natural magazine (see # 6 above).

9. One frame of an Aline Kaminsky cartoon "SHE'S FORGOTTEN HER STRUGGLES IN THE CITY". Nude woman in the wilderness says, "I FEEL SO HEALTHY". Caption, "I'D RATHER BE NUDE!"

10. Photograph by Michael Kienitz of nude demonstrators in USA: Wisconsin: Madison. Picket signs say, "WE WILL NOT BE CLOTHED-IN", "NUDE IS NOT CRUDE!", AND "NUDITY NOT = OBSCENITY". From Nude and Natural magazine (see # 6 above). Caption, "Keep your laws off my body".

-- The Nudepeace Society --

My comment today, 2005: I'm pleased at how well this holds up over 20 years later, and how it predicted what was to occur more frequently, starting in the 2000s. Unfortunately, it didn't happen as fast as we had urged then. That day I was arrested. I sued the City of Vancouver for false arrest (with lawyer Stan Guenther), and we won.

3. Mistaken, bad excuses for rejecting various aspects of Nude-peace

Revised 2004 July 25.

1. I'm ugly.

2. I'm attractive.

3. I'm fat.

4. I'm thin.

5. I'm afraid of being harrassed.

6. I'd get too sexually excited.

7. It would be too sexually frustrating.

8. It would ruin real sex.

9. Wait till I get in shape.

10. God would disapprove.

11. I'll save it for my sex partner.

12. I don't have anything to prove.

13. I'm not a show-off.

14. I'm no slut.

15. I'm no pervert.

16. It's bad for children.

17. I want to view only attractive people nude.

18. I want to see only women nude.

19. I want to see only men nude.

20. It would be a betrayal of my fidelity to my sex partner.

21. They're a bunch of kooks.

22. They include too many men in proportion to women.

23. Psychiatrists say it's sick.

24. It will make my breasts sag.

25. My career would suffer.

26. Sunlight is bad on skin.

27. I don't have time.

28. I was raised clothed--and I'm all right.

29. The risks of death, injury, and arrested development from clothing, modesty, and chastity are negligible.

30. I can't get over my embarrassment over nudity.
31. It's too sexual.

32. It's not sexual enough.

33. My family doesn't want to.

34. My family isn't supportive.

35. I'm not very healthy.

36. My boobs are too small.
37. My boobs are too big.

38. My penis is too small.
39. My penis is too big.
40. I don't want to make my child into a pervert.

41. I don't want to make my boy gay.

42. I don't want to make my girl into a lesbian.

43. It doesn't come naturally to me.

44. My sex partner wants my body just for himself.

45. My sex partner wants my body just for herself.

46. It's too primitive and animal-like.

47. Women should be liberated now.

48. Why give men a free look?

49. My breasts get too heavy.

50. I had a cesarean.

51. It's not part of my culture.

52. I'm more of an intellectual.

53. Love can be expressed just as well in other ways.

54. Let's not go to extremes.

55. I don't remember any trauma growing up about being kept clothed.

56. That's just how the unfortunates have to live in the Third World.

57. I don't want my child interfering with my sex life.

58. No one showed me how.

59. The human species is evolving away from all that.

60. Too much of a good thing will spoil a person.

61. I'm doing fine without it.

62. My spouse is doing fine without it.

63. My child is doing fine without it.

64. I'd rather go to bars and taverns.

65. I'd rather use drugs.

66. I'd rather eat sick food without worrying so much about how I look.

67. I can't afford to eat healthy food.

68. But the experts say my child will be better off without it.

69. It's disgusting.

70. I get so much conflicting advice.

71. I look up to the people in the rich countries who are more modern than us in poor countries.

72. It's not glamorous.

73. I'm a professional.

74. I'll just live how everyone else does.

75. It's boring.

76. There's no nudity on decent shows, like Sesame Street.

77. Seeing nudity makes my spouse too horny.

78. Seeing me nude makes people jealous.

79. It gives me nasty thoughts.

80. I'm too depressed.

81. I'm too angry.

82. That was just a fad.

83. I like to figure things out for myself.

84. The Bible doesn't say I should.

85. My religion doesn't say I should.

86. God didn't tell me I should.

87. I don't want to be in any naked cult.

88. I can't get comfortable nude.

89. The trend now is too much nudity and sex.

90. The trend now is not enough nudity and sex.

91. No people around here died from clothing.

92. No people around here died from chastity.

93. Don't blow this all out of proportion.

94. You just want to use me.

95. What if you're wrong?

96. I'm politically correct.

97. I'm politically incorrect.

98. I don't want to turn into a lesbian.

99. I don't want to turn gay.

100. It would be too sexually stimulating for my child.

101. Other children would tease my child.

102. I'm more reserved.

103. Don't get so fixated on one thing.

104. It's like prostitution and pornography.

105. Aren't all these modern fashions great?

106. I might lose custody of my child.

107. Don't try to guilt me.

108. Humans get along just fine without nudity.

109. A person can get along just fine without sex for long periods.

110. I'm no witch.
111. You just like to criticize me and think you're superior.

112. It's a cold, hard world and we'd better get used to it.

113. I'm confused.

114. I'd rather play it cautious.

115. I don't want people to think that I consider myself superior to them.

116. God will lead me in the right way.

117. Nudists are a sick, dirty-minded bunch.

118. Nudism is just a White, middle-class thing in this country.

119. I know better.

120. Quit pressuring me, and let me be free to decide.

121. I'm not the hippie type.

122. It's child abuse.

123. The social pressure against nudity is too much.
124. People look better clothed.

125. I want to be able to tell who's rich by their clothing.
126. I want to show my wealth by my clothing.
127. I want to be able to tell who's in which social category by their clothing.
128. I want to show my social category by my clothing.
129. I'm no atheist.
130. I just don't want to.

End of article

"Mistaken, bad excuses for rejecting various aspects of Nude-peace".

4. Here at Ulksen Beach
        22nd Anniversary Inspiration! [1992]
       Prude or rude--to clued and nude!

A flyer for handing out at Ulksen Beach. Revised 2005 April 12.

   I thank Halkomelem Nation for letting me live here in their country. I'm a poor war refugee from the USA, of Eurasian ancestry.
   For thousands of years the indigenes, such as Halkomelem Nation and other First Nations, lived in relative harmony with this land, plants, animals, sand, water, wind, and sun. Then Europeans invaded--destroying and oppressing. Their new name for this beach is "Wreck Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada". This point of land is called "Ulksen" in the language of the people of Halkomelem, a language also called Coast Salish.
   Europeans brought their social classes and status. In their view, your social standing is determined by wealth, stealth, appearance, etc. Instead of appreciating everyBODY, they follow fashion in clothes, body shape, skin colour, etc. Since no one matches their ideals, everyone tands to feel inadequate.
   Instead of wearing clothes for protection from nature, for warmth, and for art, the newcomers wear them more for shame, vanity, social status, and imagined protection from each other. Many religions reinforce that. "Western Civilisation" makes a fetish of hiding genitals, buttocks, and female chests. They really don't like their bodies or themselves! They transfer these hang-ups to their young and to some indigenes.
   But a rising tide has begun to reverse the brainwashing. Until 1970, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been intimidating some of the few nudists (or "naturists") here at Ulksen Beach. Then I called a "Nude-In" here at the beach for 1970 August 23--a happy protest celebration. About 3 000 people came, showing enough political support to re-establish nude rights. We maintain freedom to be nude be BEING nude.
   Over the years, we have also worked to prevent beach roads, development, tree-cutting, pollution, etc. Without dedicated nudists, I think these efforts would fail. (They're now led by a Metis woman.)
   However, since not everyone acts respectfully at this beach, some others stay away. I say to forward, careless, or rude people: Do you really want your comments or actions to deter people from coming here? And deter them from feeling comfortable enough to try nakedness?
   Here you can refresh yourself with a deep breath outside the cold-hearted city. Try it! Please--
   -- enjoy natural food (check ingredients).
   -- groove on your natural headspace (without alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, or other drugs).
   -- socialize naturally (with peace and respect), which is actually easier without clothes.
   -- seize the precious, liberating opportunity to relax, frolic, or swim naturally--innocently and voluntarily nude!
   Send contributions for indigene land recognition to Musqueam Government, 6370 Salish Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6N 2C6.

End of article "Here at Ulksen Beach".

5. Hair codes are evil--as are dress codes

Revised 2004 May 6.

   Since the 1960s, I have felt that my long hair makes me, as a man, somewhat of a "voluntary woman"--not sexually, but politically. A little later I heard us hippies described as "voluntary niggers". Actually, by having long hair, I am showing solidarity with both women and Blacks (and indigenes, the homeless, and, by extension, all oppressed people).
   People frequently since 1964 have asked me why I want to make it hard on myself. I could get a haircut, put on a suit and pass for White!
   I remember reading that during World War 2 (somewhere, maybe Nederlanden or Danmark) the Gentiles put on Stars of David to show solidarity with Jews who were being rounded up and killed. It was as if to say, "If you're going to single them out, we are going to defy you and to make it hard for you and to try to protect them." I feel similarly.
   Also, I think that by having long hair I am honouring non-White and female culture. If a male of indigini blood grew long hair and wore it traditionally to honour his indigenous heritage, what would you think? That he should act White?
   Nevertheless, I think that such a man, if he kept his long hair, would be more respected and his ideas more respected on a deeper level in people, even if on the conscious or impulsive level they reviled him. Unreasonable or involuntary conformity is seen to include an element of cowardice.
   And even when people do conform, it still doesn't protect them from discrimination. Women trying to conform to all the male standards still get held back in their careers. Even being a Christian minister didn't stop Martin King from being assassinated.
   We hippies and other Greens have helped many movements, even if some cannot bring themselves to admit it. I think most people in "Canada" are more open-minded than USAmericans. The former have the attitude that each person, even a hippie, has some positive things to contribute, and so should be listened to.

End of article "Hair codes are evil".

6. A dress code vs. dress codes

Revised 2005 April 6.

France decided to ban most religious adornment in public schools in early 2004. So far, the ban is being accepted pretty well, as far as I've heard.

   I've been against dress codes generally, but this one baffled me for a while.
   I finally concluded that France's new dress code is an imperfect but practical attempt to protect children from their parents' dress codes. Those parents' codes include veils and headscarves worn by Moslem females, supposedly to protect them from being treated like whores and sluts (and worse) by extreme sexists. So this new ban is, I hope, a dress code in support of children's rights and female rights.
   What if a young person really wants to express their own religious beliefs in their dress? I know that some of them will feel that way and will think that the government dress code is a violation of their religious rights.

I believe and hope, however, that the vast majority will feel relieved that the ban exists. Also, I hope that this law relieves Moslem parents of some of the pressure from their more extreme co-religionists to indocrinate their kids into participating in a form of female slavery.

The burka in Afghanistan is a more extreme version of the headscarf. It covers the whole body, with a little screen to hide her eyes. Would the defenders of headscarves defend the burka, too?

For another comparison, consider that some young women might want to be sexually mutilated according to an African and Middle Eastern custom. Do loving adults allow that, even if that is what a girl wants? Certainly not. While headscarves are not as serious and are not permanent, I believe that they similarly scar women emotionally--and males who witness them. I certainly feel sorry every time I see a woman covered like a piece of chattel being hoarded. Do Mostlem men wear veils so that others don't get sexually attracted to them?

7. Prostitution is fake love!

Claimed to be immoral, exploitive, tolerable, or liberated.

Revised 2004 September 18.

Prostitution is viewed differently by libertarians, by old-style abolitionists (mostly religious), and by those claiming that prostitution is exploitation. All 3 groups include some solid feminist thinkers.

My view is somewhat different from all of those.

Prostitution is the marketing of a love substitute. Those who don't understand that point should realize that sex and love are simply biological methods of creating bonds among people which enable us to efficiently socialize and thus enhance the survival of our species. Prostitution is an attempt to short-circuit (or cheat) that natural system. Thus it detracts from the survival of humanity.

With good working conditions for sex trade workers enforced by a government and/or by a labour union, etc., prostitution would not be so "exploitive" in the usual sense of the word. It would be more like selling beer and tobacco in a government-regulated pub. (Selling those things is bad for society, too.)

Improving conditions for whores is admirable, including the slowing of the spread of diseases to the general public. However, regulated, legalised prostitution still leaves us with its unnatural, harmful basic function.

Furthermore, we can seldom successfully abolish something which is so deeply ingrained if we use just punishment. Of course, it is the sign of an entrenched patriarchy like ours that prostitutes are punished much more than their customers.

I agree with the prostitution abolitionists, though, in their long-range goal. However, I want prostitution ended mainly by curing its causes. Besides, no other way works, other than totalitarianism.

One cause of prostituion, but not the only one, is poverty. Another is low self-esteem by prostitutes AND by their customers. Many in both groups won't admit that.

Another cause is our dog-eat-dog society (which means heartless, greedy, and capitalist) in which people don't love each other.

Other causes are sexual assault, violence, family break-down, tobacco, alcohol, other drope, unemployment, poor working conditions in competing careers, generally poor career opportunities, the high cost of education, etc.

The deeper analysis I'm trying to show in this book is that all of the above "causes" are themselves mostly caused by the 4 Traps. Most would be cured by the 4 Leaps: Breast-right, Joy-earned, Nude-peace, and Philocracy.

Paid sex is a sorry substitute for loving sex. So I want to change society through-and-through to make the world loving, which will, almost as a side effect, end the market for sex.

In the meantime, we must, of course, make sex work much safer and healthier. But please keep firmly in mind the goal of replacing it with total love. That is necessary and possible.

Similar to prostitution, watching strippers and viewing pornography are almost always substitutes for loving sex with a real person. See the article below.

End of article "Prostitution is fake love".

8.  How pornography (and erotica) can be like dope

Revised 2004 September 19.

   It took me decades to analyse people's use of the "writings of harlots" (porn). It doesn't take a degree in psychology or theology to understand it.
   Most people have one of 3 opinions: they think that it's a sin against God, that it degrades women (and others), or that some of it, at least, is great.
   First of all, there's no God.
   Some "porn" terribly degrades people as sex objects and some doesn't. (The latter is sometimes called erotica.)
   Many (especially males) think it's great to masturbate to. But I think that every one of them knows, usually consciously, that it's a sad substitute for a real, loving sex partner.
   So what's wrong with using a substitute--with loving your centrefold? Mostly, you're just wasting time and energy that should be used to connect with a real person, that's all.
   It's not necessarily degrading to women, directly. It is indirectly, though, because the porn-lover is neglecting at that moment to love a real person (which in many cases would be a woman) by accepting substitutes for them.
   What humanity desperately needs in order to save ourselves is more of those inter-personal connections, more real person-to-person, skin-to-skin love!
   It's true that jerking off to pictures won't harm your physical health, as almost all drope will. Nevertheless, masturbation is still trying to get the reward (pleasure) without falling in love for real. That's like what people do with dope: they try to get the reward without doing something real and beneficial to earn it.
   Many animals maturbate. You could say it's natural for us to do so, too. And it is--somewhat.
   Compare elephants. They get drunk after they raid human alcohol stills in Bharat. However, alcohol is not good for the elephants any more than it's good for us.
   Masturbation is something almost everyone tries. It's harmless when considered in isolation. Importantly, it's counter-productive to try to stop it directly. But we can try to make a society with better, more available alternatives.
   But I recommend that you realize that your desire for a real human is good, but not something you should try to divert or forget by using substitutes. It's common to get "hooked" on porn in the sense that you find that it's easy. And it's so hard to establish good, sexy relationships! Hard it is, yes, but worth doing nonetheless. The substitute gets you nowhere, though, just like dope.
   Teenagers and prisoners masturbate a lot because society cruelly denies them their rights and opportunities for love and sex. That creates a lot of immediate backlash from teens, plus life-long resentment and hang-ups. And prisoners are not rehabilitated by enforced celibacy, either. Teens and prisoners often feel a kinship in that shared oppression.
   When someone is extremely sexually repressed, they are bound to feel some negative emotions. Irrational though it is to do so, many will direct their anger toward women, especially women who don't defend themselves as well. That's cowardly to pick on them, of course. It's less guilt-inducing to merely imagine you're sexually assaulting or taking advantage of someone. Hence many choose pornography which lets the viewer imagine they are mistreating or exploiting others.
   You might say, "Well, that's better than mistreating a real person!" True, it is. However, we as a society can do much better than merely to allow such diversion of anger. We can and must PREVENT the anger in the first place. Then there's no need to find outlets for that anger which we hope are harmless. As I discuss in Part I, the roots of most of that anger are in early infancy.
   Since prostitution and pornography are fake love, and love is a pleasure, fake love can also be considered "unearned joy" and thus part of Trap 2, Fake Fun. However, I think it fits a bit better in this category.

End of article "How pornography (and erotica) can be like dope".