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Thanks!!
Monday, July 24th 2006 at 11:31 pm
The site looks great - oh, hang on, I\’m just a test user puppet for the webmaster… All comments welcome!!
Sunday, August 20th 2006 at 8:22 pm
You have done a wonderful job updating this site.
(Edit by Webmaster): Thanks Sue, we appreciate all feedback, particularly the positive ones!!
Tuesday, September 5th 2006 at 3:25 pm
“It is Naturism
NATURE FIDS ITS OWN BALANCE
The Body is an inert Thing made of the five Elements
The body is only an inert thing; it is nothing more than seven buckets of water, the iron from four 2-inch nails, the phosphorous from 1,100 match sticks, the carbon contained in four pencils and two pieces of soap. When you put all these things together with a few other assorted substances, it becomes a body. So, the body just consists of this inert matter-
One very negative commentator writes: “The alleged improvement in health, physical or mental, is founded on no evident fact but is simply a gratuitous supposition, or at most is based on far fetched analogies with life among certain primitive people.” Fortunately there is ample evidence based not on suppositions but on valid empirical studies confirming that under proper conditions nudity is a desirable aid to good mental and physical health. In contrast, here in the U.S., body image confusion, sexual overstimulation and commercialization of nudity has reached an absolute height.
For years, the health insurance organization of Sweden has sent patients to Dalmatia, prescribing nude sunbathing and relaxation in the mild waters of the Adriatic for skin and other illnesses. We are often aware of the effort of practicing nudists to care for their bodily health. We know that we find every possible body type and form and we are no longer under the dangerous illusion that everyone can conform to the nude examples of ‘Playboy’ and ‘Playgirl’. Seeing the great variety of bodily characteristics, we no longer worry so much about “positive” or “negative” attributes of our bodies, and we learn to accept both our own image and the images others present. We see those with scars of injuries and surgeries and other disabilities and “imperfections” who participate in nudist activities without any self-consciousness.
Victoria currently has 4 legal clothing optional beaches, and a number of unofficial locations. If you want the beaches to stay legal, you need to use them!! More information will be posted here shortly, including some maps and some pics!
Stop Press!! 3 of the 4 legal Clothing Optional Victorian beaches are currently under threat!! Read other posts on this site for more information, then contact the FBA, this site, or the ANF to lend your support!!
Lots of background reading is available in the archives, or check the “Stop Press” category link to get started.
We’ve now added a letters page with some examples of letters written to the various parties involved in the attack on our beaches. There’s also an addresses page, with contact details so you can take part and support the cause!! If you use the beaches (or even if you don’t!), we urge you to show your support and write a letter!!
The Beaches
The four legal beaches in Victoria are Southside and Pt Impossible (down Torquay/Geelong way); Campbells Cove (near Werribee), and Sunnyside (near Mt Eliza). Information provided by a number of sources, including the Free Beach Association.
Sunday, September 10th 2006 at 5:59 pm
Keep up the good work guys. By the way, I heard a rumour that Cr Humphreys and some of the other councillors who voted to revoke the legal status of Pt Impossible have invested money in a company wanting to build a hotel complex at White’s beach. This would be a definate conflict of interest for them and highly impropper. Can you look into this?
Anita
Sunday, October 1st 2006 at 2:28 pm
I have been a nudist for over 25 years. My beach of choice is Sunnyside Beach at Mt.Martha. I have made many friends socially and I have never found people to be offensive in plain view, most often this occurs in bushy areas which are mostly marked as \”off limits\” by the local land preservation office and not part of the allocated nudist beach. Banning nude beaches will not stop perverts from frequenting these areas. I have seen seen a few weirdos parading around over the years, but usually they are are approached by the true nudists and asked to move out of the area, never to be seen again.
To diminish the freedom that we have as a society by having a few egocentric councillors feeding their egos and planning financial gain by collaborating with developers makes me wonder why journalists do not investigate the issues further to find out the transparency of these so-called allegations ( Cr Humphreys) that these beaches offend the community in general.
If the government is interested in the real truth then ask the nudists themselves and give them a fair and democratic hearing. Do we live in a Democracy or Not?
Daniel
(Edit by Webmaster): Thanks for the comment Daniel, you make a number of excellent (and accurate!!) points about the situation the nudist community appears to have been lumped with as a result of a process gone awry. We\’re hoping our efforts and the community outcry in the form of letters and emails will be enough to convince the office of the Minister for Planning to right the ship and get it back on a more reasonable and collaborative course!!
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006 at 2:53 pm
Dear fbanavic, thanks for this great website. Your work is greatly appreciated in trying to keep the nudist lifestyle alive and well. I personally cannot wait for the warmer weather so I can spend the day at Southside and feel revitalised again.
Many thanks, Craig.
(Edit by Webmaster): Thanks for your comments Craig, we do appreciate knowing that people are reading the site and do support the efforts the community is making to try and save the beaches. If you are able, send a letter off to the Planning Minister letting them know you are a beach user and don\’t support revocation of clothing optional status (contact details can be found on the Addresses page)
Saturday, July 7th 2007 at 2:58 pm
Great website.
Hope more naturists, and others, find it, get involved and use it.
Thanks for looking after it.
Thursday, July 3rd 2008 at 9:42 pm
Love the website as it helps keep me informed about what is happening.
I must ask why you still use the name Southside? Originally the clothing optional beach was at Pt Addis before being relocated around the point to Southside (off the top of my head, perhaps 15 years ago). Not that I changed beaches! The decision was later reversed. To arrive at Southside now, there is no indication that there is a nude beach in the vacinity and visitors would have to walk the length of the beach and around the point before discovering any clothing optional sign.
Whereas to advise people to drive down Pt Addis Rd off the Great Ocean Rd and park near the beach access on the left, there is actually signage by Parks Victoria showing where the clothing optional area is, which is visible from the lookout and an easy 500m walk.
Its my pick of the nude beaches in Victoria and my girlfriend & I would love to see us gain a bit of extra beach meterage (like all of it!) and a few more families and couples and younger people to say g’day to and less of the clothed people at the fottom of the stairs to the beach.
Would love to see the website get some more feedback and forum too