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Evan Nicks's avatar

Full disclosure: If you got this post in your inbox last night, it was honestly an accident! It was planned for Monday morning. I was still editing it and accidentally published it instead of saving and backing out. It was surprisingly only the first time that has happened in my time editing this newsletter. I try to be careful. Alas, it's live. My apologies for any confusion caused.

I have continued making minor copyedits, so the online version is the most recent, not the one in your inbox. I encourage you to read the full article.

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Seejay's avatar

Little Beach is one of my favorite places on the planet. I was there in 2006 and 2009 before any of this ridiculousness started. An issue that surprises me here, given the decades of nude use, is that the harassment by officials was initiated toward nudists and not toward the Sunday sunset activities. We were there and a whole different group shows up. It was awkward and felt like an invasion as the nude folks were pushed out and the revelers moved in. We were trying to remain in the reverie of the day and hoped to keep enjoying ourselves, but being repeatedly asked if we wanted to buy drugs made us think we should probably get out of there. It left a bad taste and made us wonder if there would be trouble there.

Still, for nude use, you really have to want to be there to even get to the beach. It’s not an easy walk. So the parks department is intentionally harassing folks who otherwise are well out of sight unless you purposely make an effort to see them.

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