Wardens on patrol at Dorset nudist beach (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Wardens on patrol at Dorset nudist beach
7:00am Wednesday 1st July 2009 in
A FAMOUS nudist beach where a string of sexual offences have been reported is being targeted to make it safer.
Three new community wardens were due to begin patrolling Studland’s beaches today.
Police have teamed up with the National Trust and Studland Beach Users Action Group to get the scheme off the ground in time for the summer.
The wardens have been trained by Dorset Police and the National Trust and will patrol throughout July and August, offering help to beach users in addition to police patrols and beach rangers.
Safer Neighbourhood Sergeant Des Connor said: “Studland has welcomed naturists for more than 90 years and continues to do so within an area designated as an official UK naturist beach.
“However, from time to time, we receive reports of sexual misconduct or activity that threatens to bring naturism into disrepute.”
He said between summer 2005 and summer 2008 nine sexual offences were recorded in Studland.
The wardens – who will wear bright yellow T-shirts – will also be a point of contact for problems such as littering, unauthorised fires and barbecues, dog fouling and illegal parking.
They will be handing out surveys to visitors on how the area can be improved.
Sgt Connor added: “We will not tolerate any unlawful behaviour and ask that all residents and visitors to the area respect the naturists and the freedom in which they wish to enjoy life.
“This new venture will reduce any opportunity for anti-social behaviour and provide even more high-visibility reassurance to all beach users that Studland is a safe place to be with their families."
Emma Wright, visitor and services manager with the National Trust, said: “The new community wardens will work in partnership with our existing staff, but will be able to achieve greater interaction with visitors by being on foot.”
Comments(46)
BIGTONE
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7:58am Wed 1 Jul 09
:O)
sniffer
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8:31am Wed 1 Jul 09
peter hurt
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10:31am Wed 1 Jul 09
overthehills
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10:37am Wed 1 Jul 09
magicmonkey
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11:20am Wed 1 Jul 09
overthehills wrote:hahahahaha funniest post on here for a long time!
I remember more years ago than I care to admit, when "mounted" policemen were on patrol at Shell Bay/ Studland on the lookout for shenanigans in the dunes. I was quietly sunbathing on my own (no meer-catting) and the only danger was when plod's nag nearly trod on my head as he trotted over the dunes. And it's been "eyes out to sea" there since Adam was a lad!
Brilliant
Barry Attrics
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11:27am Wed 1 Jul 09
Could the wardens hand out leaflets containing diet and exercise advice to the clinically obese nudists? I think this would be a useful additional function.
grumpy om
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12:35pm Wed 1 Jul 09
KLH
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1:40pm Wed 1 Jul 09
tracy m wrote:One was stood at Hengistbury Head - although he had the smallest string thong you could imagine - not budgie smugglers, he'd be lucky to get a hummingbird in those, posing prat.
Good. Some of these naked men stand on the clifftop looking like Merecats. Are they looking for prey or is it just exhibitionism. It's all eyes out to sea fot walkers to and from Studland!!
Wardens should be in the nuddy too!
KLH
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1:48pm Wed 1 Jul 09
....attention is drawn to other things though, even worse to look at... ahem...'cough'
GAHmusic
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1:51pm Wed 1 Jul 09
Dorset_Born_n_Bread !
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3:44pm Wed 1 Jul 09
....anything you do say will be taken down....er like what?
LMFAO security word: lean-town
BrianBrain
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3:49pm Wed 1 Jul 09
Have these offence counters ever been to Bournemouth on a saturday night. You can watch a live grumble show in every park bush and hedge row throughout the town. If you wander onto a nudist beach and some people are hiding their nuditity I fail to see how that is anywhere near as "wrong" as a drunken pikey getting a knee trembler in Bournemouth where we are not in a naked peoples area. Please get a life and find something more constructive to spend the money on.
P.S. Love the Budgie comment priceless :)
Bob49
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4:16pm Wed 1 Jul 09
So the offences are usually.
Sexual activity within site/ close proximity of others.
Inappropriate behaviour within site/ close proximity of others.
Sadly a small minotity of visitors regard the naturist part of Studland as a place to solicit for sexual partners and engage in sexual acts.
This can cause upset to many when they are approached and targeted in a intimidating manner.
Perhaps the National Trust could set aside a part of that area far from anyone else where they can engage it this sort of thing.
Wouldn't have to be any special, as b*ggers can't be choosers !
supermac
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4:50pm Wed 1 Jul 09
Zzzz
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5:00pm Wed 1 Jul 09
I wouldn't have minded if it was a fit young lady, but as others have pointed out, that never seems to be the case and most naturists are wrinkly, fat or both.
johngoodhew
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5:53pm Wed 1 Jul 09
johngoodhew
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5:59pm Wed 1 Jul 09
PokesdownMark
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6:21pm Wed 1 Jul 09
Or are the echo simply stretching a point?
KLH
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6:22pm Wed 1 Jul 09
I think that if adults wish to visit a nuddy beach, fair enough, but I think where kids are concerned nudity is best kept in private. Maybe i'm overreacting, I don't know, but it made me feel uncomfortable seeing what looked like naked 8 -10 year old girls running about.
Bourneman
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6:36pm Wed 1 Jul 09
recorded in 3 years??
In goes on all the time and people will still find somewhere in the dunes to get up to a bit of hanky panky.
Good luck to them as long as no one else is offended.
peter_file
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9:00pm Wed 1 Jul 09
I shall wear as little or no swimwear to the beach as I see fit.
Malcolm Boura
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9:08pm Wed 1 Jul 09
KLH had concerns about children. She can obviously have no comprehension of the damage done to children and young people as a result of censorious attitudes towards the body. The USA is probably the most prudish western country and Denmark one of the most sensible. Teenagers in Denmark are, on average, nearly a year older when they become sexually active and when they do they are more likely to use contraception and a condom and less likely to be promiscuous. The results are predictable. Nearly ten time less likely to become pregnant or to have an abortion. Over seventy times less likely to catch gonorrhoea. That pattern repeats time and again across the international comparisons. More prudish countries have worse outcomes. The harm is widespread and a lot of it is serious. Censoring the human body is nothing more than child abuse at one remove.
thesyrup1
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9:30pm Wed 1 Jul 09
Malcolm Boura wrote:Good post
The article has cut part of one of the quotes. This is from the BBC web site. "Nine sex offences were reported in the area between the summers of 2005 and 2008, which Dorset Police said was low." It is an important point, and the article is no longer fair without it. KLH had concerns about children. She can obviously have no comprehension of the damage done to children and young people as a result of censorious attitudes towards the body. The USA is probably the most prudish western country and Denmark one of the most sensible. Teenagers in Denmark are, on average, nearly a year older when they become sexually active and when they do they are more likely to use contraception and a condom and less likely to be promiscuous. The results are predictable. Nearly ten time less likely to become pregnant or to have an abortion. Over seventy times less likely to catch gonorrhoea. That pattern repeats time and again across the international comparisons. More prudish countries have worse outcomes. The harm is widespread and a lot of it is serious. Censoring the human body is nothing more than child abuse at one remove.
The Chill
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8:28am Thu 2 Jul 09
Malcolm Boura
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8:37am Thu 2 Jul 09
The Chill wrote:No, there are no nudist beaches in the UK. There is a handful of clothes optional beaches one of which is near Bournemouth.
We have a nudist beach?!
It is long overdue that we stopped letting the prejudices of a few cause so much harm to so many.
Dorset_Born_n_Bread !
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9:01am Thu 2 Jul 09
I agree good point prudity is a bad thing. Nothing wrong with the human form. Just people's attitudes toward it when they are uncomfortable with themselves.
Adrian XX
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10:48am Thu 2 Jul 09
Welcome to Finland home of the mixed (naked) sauna
As you know, public saunas (e.g. in swimming pools, gyms) are never mixed in Finland. (though often the steam rooms are - because you can't see much!). You are talking about private saunas in yours or someone else's home.
The Finns have some way to go yet in conquering their prudishness. The Netherlands and the German speaking countries are the places where even the public saunas are mixed and nude.
It is true, as someone else has pointed out, that there is a correlation between teen pregnancy rates and prudishness. It's a strange thing to get uncomfortable about naked bodies.
wilkiemini
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11:52am Thu 2 Jul 09
Adrian XX
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12:17pm Thu 2 Jul 09
i don't have a problem with nudists but the area does attrack perverts and voyeurs
Sad but true. This is probably a result of chronic prudish attitudes. If nudity were more acceptable and nudist beaches were more common this would be less likely to occur.
Laurie H Marsh
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1:53pm Thu 2 Jul 09
johngoodhew wrote:That is wishful thinking.
we can't all be stick insects, long live fat people!
Fat people usually die young!
I hope you enjoy what is left!
Laurie H Marsh
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1:59pm Thu 2 Jul 09
peter hurt wrote:You come from around Shaftsbury!
Long as there baint no dwile flonking snow.
God help me, I understand you!
40 years and it still doesnt go away!
Laurie H Marsh
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2:24pm Thu 2 Jul 09
Malcolm Boura wrote:No mate, if the "many" wanted it, it would happen!
The Chill wrote: We have a nudist beach?!No, there are no nudist beaches in the UK. There is a handful of clothes optional beaches one of which is near Bournemouth. It is long overdue that we stopped letting the prejudices of a few cause so much harm to so many.
The problem is, is that the perverts pervade our society in this "enlightened" age so much that we cant even let our children out alone on the streets any more!
Open your other eye!
oneshortleg
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3:17pm Thu 2 Jul 09
Adrian XX
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4:12pm Thu 2 Jul 09
No mate, if the "many" wanted it, it would happen!
That is so rarely true. It's rarely the people who get a chance to decide. Governments both local and national get to make the decisions often against the will of the majority of voters.
cantique
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4:55pm Thu 2 Jul 09
I agree with KLH and am in two minds about children. I do not particularly like seeing them myself, but can understand the argument about healthy attitudes to the body.
KLH
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6:39pm Thu 2 Jul 09
Malcolm Boura
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8:20pm Thu 2 Jul 09
KLH wrote:You are trying to have your cake and eat it. It doesn't work.
There is nothing wrong with the human body but a balance has to be struck. Kids shouldn't be made to feel ashamed of their bodies, but there are many ways that they can be taught this in other ways than making them run around naked on a nudist beach. Letting your children see you naked at home in private and educating them not to be ashamed of their bodies is a perfectly acceptable way. Letting them run about in public naked - especially prepubescent girls, isn't teaching them about their bodies, it is a shop window for paedos.
If you treat children as if they are sexual then they become sexualised and it makes the problem of paedophilia worse. If a child is sexualised according to what they are wearing then at least some types of clothing become provocative. Should there be a ban on swim suits because some paedophiles are attracted to children in swim suits? What about shorts and tee shirt? Or what about creating a climate in which children are considered inherently not sexual?
Clothing makes the body more sexual, not less. I am reliably informed by people who know about such things that there is very little nudity in ****. There is nearly always a tease, for example a bit of drapery or frilly knickers and a suggestion that they are about to be removed.
Malcolm Boura
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8:26pm Thu 2 Jul 09
KLH
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9:33pm Thu 2 Jul 09
anderton
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10:47pm Thu 2 Jul 09
KLH wrote:Stand by your guns,the worlds getting sicker.
Sorry Malc, I disagree with you - I stand by what I have said on all my posts.
anderton
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10:51pm Thu 2 Jul 09
KLH wrote:Stand by your guns,the worlds getting sicker.
Sorry Malc, I disagree with you - I stand by what I have said on all my posts.
Adrian XX
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1:06am Fri 3 Jul 09
I'm also unconvinced by the suggestion that child sex abuse is more common in girls than boys. I believe the rates of abuse are similar.
2Much...again!
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8:03am Fri 3 Jul 09
Bob49 wrote:"Sadly a small minotity of visitors regard the naturist part of Studland as a place to solicit for sexual partners and engage in sexual acts"
I'm not too sure what your points is BrianBrain (nor, I suspect, do you).
So the offences are usually.
Sexual activity within site/ close proximity of others.
Inappropriate behaviour within site/ close proximity of others.
Sadly a small minotity of visitors regard the naturist part of Studland as a place to solicit for sexual partners and engage in sexual acts.
This can cause upset to many when they are approached and targeted in a intimidating manner.
Perhaps the National Trust could set aside a part of that area far from anyone else where they can engage it this sort of thing.
Wouldn't have to be any special, as b*ggers can't be choosers !
Yeah...GB being GB..we wouldn't shout anything to them until they lit a cigarette on a "no smoking" stretch of beach!"
KLH
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8:51am Fri 3 Jul 09
Mind you there are plenty who ain't backwards in coming forwards - me for example!
I'd go up with a bucket of seawater, chuck it over them, then hand them a phone and tell them to get the coppers so they can report me for assault.
GAHmusic
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12:11pm Fri 3 Jul 09
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7:57am Wed 1 Jul 09