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Williams says the rise of social media and camera phones “has put a new twist on the gawker problem.” Nudists now have concerns their images will be posted online without consent. Reddit users have pointed to examples of video clips of Wreck Beach nudists posted to porn sites.
Though brief, the guide is layered with useful information for visitors; lively history (from its naming to the challenges Wreck faces from its very popularity and proximity to development-hungry UBC); peppery anecdotes (ranging from a foiled porn film shoot and a brief cocaine epidemic in the ’80s to its murders and anti-nudism protests); and observations about the beach community’s tacit rules and regulations (eg “Keep in mind that the one thing the Wreck Beach crowd most hates and fears is any hint of pedophilia”).
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Were Eli content to let his 10-inch-when-erect “gift from God” merely lie in the sunshine at Wreck Beach, Judy Williams could relax. Back in 1970, that’s what the beach’s defenders fought for: the right to be nude in nature.
Williams thinks public sex could ultimately ruin the beach. For 27 years, she’s been at the helm of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society, defending Canada’s first clothing-optional beach against a “never-ending and ceaseless onslaught” of attacks. After as many as 80 years as a tacit clothing-optional zone, and drawing as many as 12,000 users in a day, Wreck has no legal protection and no real representative government.
