“It is a problem which appears to be getting worse,” a police spokesman told the Telegraph. “People appear to get a perverse pleasure out of this behaviour.”Perverse? Hardly. It's just people expressing their normal sexual urges.
I confess to losing my virginity in the front seat of a car parked in a secluded but public area. I also had sex in a car at a drive-in movie, in the middle of an open field, and on the balcony of an apartment building. I nearly had sex in a brightly-lit apartment building hallway once, but my partner and I chickened out when we thought we heard someone on the stairway.
I never considered this a perversion. At no time were we trying to be seen, but the slight chance of being caught was a definite turn-on.
In Woody Allen's movie "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex", Louise Lasser's character cannot achieve orgasm unless she has sex in a public place. The scene is funny because her predicament is founded in real life.
In Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love and Lust, tourism professors Thomas G. Bauer and Bob McKercher describe the relationship between travel and intimacy.It's not by accident that someone named a concoction with peach schnapps and vodka "Sex on the Beach".
Although the words “sex tourism” have become synonymous with prostitution, the authors argue that “the vast majority of people who engage in sex when they travel do so with their regular partners. …
“Sometimes sex or the prospect of sexual encounters at the destination or along the way plays a central role in the decision to travel,” the book states.
The problem is that having sex in a public place can get you arrested.
Michelle Palmer, the 36-year-old British woman arrested in Dubai after being caught having sex with a man on Jumeirah Beach, has reportedly been charged with having sex outside marriage, indecent behaviour in public and being drunk in public, and faces up to six years in jail.When we were teenagers in the early 70s, there was always the possibility that a police car could have pulled up behind us while we were in the throes of ecstasy, but we were never fearful of arrest. Chances are the cop would have shined his flashlight into the car, and asked us to take it somewhere else.
In the case of the Vimy war memorial, Alain Robillard and Jackie Boldoduc were charged after posting an Internet video of their erotic encounter at the historic landmark.
The law has great difficulty in differentiating between normal sexual activity, and perversion. People are going to have sex, they are going to take pictures and video, and they are going to do it just about anywhere. In a seemingly growing conservative environment, the trend is to further criminalize people for normal sexual activity.
It should be noted that excessive public displays of sexuality are prohibited at nudist resorts, primarily because of the family atmosphere, but nudists generally enjoy a healthier sex life due to the fact that they are less self-conscious about their bodies. Nudists are not anti-sex. [205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism .pdf file]
Nobody is advocating public sex on Main Street USA, but if two people are loving each other, and are making some effort at being discreet, then the law should do nothing more than to ask them to cover up and move along.
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I, too, have had sex in public places in the past. The fact that it is a common practice, however, does not make it legal or appropriate. Had we been caught, we should have been punished. The fine should be stiff enough to keep you from doing it regularly. 6 years in prison is extreme, but a couple of hundred dollars and your name in the local police blotter would certainly do the trick.
Public sex is the single biggest threat to nude beaches. And there is no doubt that nude beaches attract more than their fair share of people seeking sex in public. If the incidence of sex in supermarket frozen food isles equal that of nude beaches, it might be a different story. It is in all of our best interest to discourage this behavior for the common good.
Red, I'm not advocating public sex out in the open. Note that I mention that people need to use discretion. I agree that open sex on nude beaches is a threat, such as found in this article: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/07/07/Mass_beach_sex_riles_some/UPI-55801215458100/
'Much of the open sex involves gays but heterosexual copulation also has been reported along the pristine national shore. Last year, a New Jersey family came upon couples and a large group of men having "sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open" among the dunes, the Cape Cod Times reported last week.'
Take note that police have issued 132 tickets in the last year, but no arrests were reported.
Contrast that with San Onofre beach in California, which is losing its clothing-optional status based based upon a single complaint from one park ranger.
Yes, absolutely, public sex like what is occuring in the Cape Cod Seashore should be discouraged, and fined as you suggest.
I don't know if sex on nude beaches exceeds such incidents elsewhere. I'll bet that nearly everyone has had sex outdoors, in a car, or in a place where the chances of being caught are elevated. I'll bet that even Disney World has had its fair share of sexual incidents. Who can resist Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
First, the near-trivial: You mean "discreet", not "discrete". Both are correctly-spelled words so a spell check won't help you here, but they do not mean the same thing.
Second: Nudiarist, I'm with you.
Red: "Public sex is the single biggest threat to nude beaches." I would say, rather, that the uninformed perception that public nudity = public sex is the single biggest threat to nude beaches.
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