Suitless in Seattle: Nude beach

[Randy]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37387281/ns/us_news/



SEATTLE - Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is asking residents what the city needs, and many are warming to the idea of a nude beach.



A clothing-optional beach is in third place Thursday in an online vote on the mayor's website. Far ahead in first and second are expanding light rail and legalizing marijuana, but about 870 people favor going bare in the air.



The thought of shedding duds in the often rainy and cloudy city may give some people goose bumps. But a small number of the suitless in Seattle brave the shores of Lake Washington and secluded but chillier spots on Puget Sound. And in June, there's the Fremont neighborhood's Solstice Parade, where unclad bicyclists with abundant body paint are the norm — rain or shine.

 

[Evil Eye]

it's cold but they want to be nude?

 

[DrLeftover]

The only thing that surprises me about this is that they don't already have an official one.



As progressive as the town tries to be, who would'a thunk that they didn't?

 

[Jazzy]

In the state where I live there is no ordinance against public nudity. What I find funny, however, is that it's against the law to get undressed in public.

 

[Temerit]

There are probably 20 days out of the year in Seattle where I could be nude on the beach and not get hypothermia. Let alone go in the water.

 

[Nebulous]

You can go nude on a couple beaches in SF around here.. But I wouldn't. Its too cold and I dont want strangers seeing me naked.

Ive seen a few other people doing it before and its not a pretty sight.