NPR Profiles Gunnison Beach

Wonderful, wonderful story on NPR today about clothing-optional Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, with audio.

On a recent weekend day, about half the people on the beach are nude, one quarter are topless, and the rest are wearing bathing suits, shorts and beach wraps. But the thing that's most striking is how easy it is to strike up a conversation.

"When you are not wearing clothes, you have nothing to show everybody how much you make and what you do for a living," (Dale) Distasio says. "The Nike sneakers are off. The $300 earrings got left at home, and it's a terrific equalizer."

The story strikes all the right chords, it's light-hearted, it's respectful, and it proves that nudity at the beach is really no big deal.

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