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RANT/RAVE: Week of Oct. 6

Wrecked Beach Re: “Naked Truth,” Rant/Rave, Sept.1, 2016.
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Wrecked Beach

Re: “Naked Truth,” Rant/Rave, Sept.1, 2016.

I've been to Wreck Beach many times, and I enjoy walking the entire length due to the nearly unspoiled nature of the beach that reminds me of what most of Vancouver beaches may have resembled before Europeans made contact with natives and carved up paradise for their homes, marinas and other uses for a “superior, civilized white” culture. Wreck Beach is one of the few beaches where I've seen seals and otters come out of the water without an immediate fear of the people watching them in their natural habitat. 

No, I don't strip naked and I don't even care to look at those who do because like I told one stuck-up old university-educated politically-aggressive cow who sits on some committee or board of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society, “She's as far from being a Vogue model as humanly possible and she ain't worth taking a peek at anyway.”

Wreck Beach is “clothing optional.” No bylaw that I'm aware of has ever prosecuted anyone for keeping their clothes on, nor am I aware that anyone has been arrested and jailed for taking it all off unless they engaged in some lewd sexual activity or violated a minor or anyone who wasn't consensual with the contact he/she had received.

As for people “keeping off your beach,” let me remind you from what I've been informed of many times, is that Wreck Beach is unceded native land. It doesn't belong to you anymore than it belongs to me. I can't stake a claim and build my dream home or mine for gold on Wreck Beach any more than you can and although the Canadian government may have worked out some agreement with the local native bands that prevents development of the area, if members of the local Musqueam band wanted to come by and tell you and I to “keep off their beach,” they may be to only people who have the legally recognized right to do so. 

As long as Wreck Beach is there and accessible for hikers and other people to enjoy I'll continue to walk by and take in the sounds of sites of unspoiled nature and I couldn't give a flying f--k if every modelling agency sent their best looking models to strip down and shake their tits and asses and private parts for everyone to see. I'm not looking and if I want to get off on some naked bodies there's countless better looking ones on the Internet that I can look at to my complete satisfaction. 

–Leslie Benisz

 

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