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COMMENT 306380	2012-08-09 01:14 PM
Sorry no input on the law, but just a few weeks ago north of Hendry's beach we saw a man running down the beach nude. They are meant for each other!
REDTOP	2012-08-09 01:15 PM
Lucky you!!
COMMENT 306385	2012-08-09 01:23 PM
Pics or it didn't happen! :)
COMMENT 306393P	2012-08-09 01:28 PM
As far as I know, you are allowed to be topless (even completely naked!) as long as it isn't for exhibitionist reasons. A woman won a lawsuit allowing her to garden while stark nude because she proved she wasn't trying to cause a scene and was truly just doing it because she enjoyed it. Now try telling that to a police officer :)
COMMENT 306396	2012-08-09 01:30 PM
U must have wandered into the more mesa beach area, buy walking that far up....
COMMENT 306403	2012-08-09 01:53 PM
South of Hendry's = in the ocean
COMMENT 306404	2012-08-09 01:55 PM
Since that bit of beach runs east-west, I'd assume that he was 1.5 miles EAST of Hendrys (between Hendrys and Ledbetters, not More Mesa. But really, who cares? I'd welcome seeing nature, even augmented nature on a beach walk.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-09 01:56 PM
Where is the picture?
COMMENT 306407P	2012-08-09 01:59 PM
Agree with 385 & Roger - No pic = wishful thinking
COMMENT 306411	2012-08-09 02:02 PM
As a kid I used to love all the nude ladies on Butterfly Beach and out by Rincon. Too bad the right wingers had to ban them. The weirdos were always a problem, I suppose, but worth the trade off, in my opinion. I saw one of my high school teachers playing nude volleyball once. Pretty cool stuff.
COMMENT 306418	2012-08-09 02:11 PM
Oops, OP here. I meant west of Hendry's parking lot, not south. And it was inbetween Hendry's and the Hope Ranch parking lot so not in More Mesa. For what it's worth, shortly thereafter I saw a woman walking in a skimpy red and black lace bra so there's something in the air!
COMMENT 306422P	2012-08-09 02:19 PM
OP - maybe you're just lucky!
COMMENT 306428	2012-08-09 02:26 PM
Who cares! they are just boobs. All women, and some men have them. All our moms did!
COMMENT 306437	2012-08-09 02:48 PM
Is the human body really THAT offensive that one has to find out what laws might be against baring certain parts of it in public? Grow up, people!
COMMENT 306438P	2012-08-09 02:51 PM
@437 for the win.
COMMENT 306445	2012-08-09 02:57 PM
It's the Law of Supply and Demand.
COMMENT 306450	2012-08-09 03:02 PM
In Santa Barbara, live and let live.
COMMENT 306458	2012-08-09 03:09 PM
I would like to try and answer the question. Based upon everything I have heard and read - Nowhere in Santa Barbara County is it legal to be nude outside. The definition of nude is too long to go into but a topless women would be defined as nude. As many of you know, in the past many SB beaches had many nude people on them. It was never "legal' it was just not something the police went after unless some other "problem" was happening. That is no longer true.
COMMENT 306471	2012-08-09 03:22 PM
@437 +1
COMMENT 306491	2012-08-09 04:11 PM
I didn't know you could walk on water...
COMMENT 306525	2012-08-09 05:02 PM
Why do people insist on spelling woman, singular, with an "e"? Women = plural, woman = singular. Just like men = plural and man = singular.
COMMENT 306528	2012-08-09 05:04 PM
Thank you for that titillating story. Please keep us abreast of any new developments .
COMMENT 306529	2012-08-09 05:06 PM
Nude is wrong, but blood & guts, killings, stabbings, terrible stuff in videogames and on tv is ok? There's something terribly wrong with this picture...
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-09 05:08 PM
Many years ago I visited those beaches I was probley about 23, KEYT filmed my profile at Mora Mesa all my friends saw me on the snooze. I was wearing my birthday suit though...
COMMENT 306533	2012-08-09 05:14 PM
Wrong??? Deeep breath.....
COMMENT 306437	2012-08-09 05:45 PM
533, I think that person was saying that nude is wrong to the same people who think violence is okay. I don't think they were saying that nudity was wrong.
COMMENT 306547P	2012-08-09 05:47 PM
404, augmented nature? No, not me. I prefer my nature to be natural, not some contrived version of it to fit a perverted sense of what nature should be like.
COMMENT 306559	2012-08-09 06:02 PM
The moral concept behind hiding nudity is what gives it the stigma in the first place. Oh irony.
COMMENT 306582	2012-08-09 07:24 PM
I am more concerned with the pervs gawking.
COMMENT 306547P	2012-08-09 07:27 PM
582, then by all means let modesty govern your actions because "if you show it they will look".
COMMENT 306590	2012-08-09 07:50 PM
Why was it necessary to give the location of this woman ? If she was down the beach she probably wanted a little privacy. The secret is out now. Is it worth satisfying your curiosity to tamper with someone's privacy ? Perhaps you could have found out what you wanted to know without mapping it all out.
COMMENT 306594	2012-08-09 08:08 PM
No one is offended or aroused by men baring their breasts wherever they want to but for some reason women's breasts are not allowed for public viewing. They are just mammary glands, folks! Many of us use them to feed our children and I, for one, always feed my infants whenever they were hungry and wherever I happened to be.
COMMENT 306623P	2012-08-09 11:27 PM
I think the law is that it isn't permitted. There used to be 3 or 4 beaches that were mostly nude beaches, because there was no one close enough to complain. They were remote enough that you had to hike to them. Then we let people build all over the damned place, and now, no place is remote enough to not get complaints, so no where is OK to go nude anymore. Damned shame. Feels good to swim and lie in the warm sun as nature intended.
COMMENT 306663	2012-08-10 07:31 AM
Did you happen to also see the guy who got pinched a couple weeks ago for touching himself within ten feet of two teenagers at east beach? That's a whole other can of worms.
AQUAHOLIC	2012-08-10 07:45 AM
Anyone 'walking' down the beach Topless isn't looking for privacy, they are looking for some attention. I don't have a problem with nudity, I think most bodies are pretty awesome. Going topless in Europe has gone out of favor and style these days, especially with the French who kinda started it all...go figure.
COMMENT 306525	2012-08-10 07:46 AM
6663... in some parts of the country guys are constantly touching themselves - Brooklyn comes to mind.
COMMENT 306702	2012-08-10 08:19 AM
I'm not sure it's against the law and pursuing it would not be effective, with pictures or otherwise. Ignore the woman, assuming she wasn't doing anything offensive that would raise alarms with clothes on or off. It was a shock to you, you are not used to it. We are 'free thinkers' here because the Constitution allows us to be, but that can step on the toes of the more conventional person. Not all Europeans are nudies (I really can't see this in chilly England), and so let it go as they say and if you do snap a picture of her 'impressive boob job' you might find yourself on the other end of lawsuit yourself. Freethinkers, whoever gets there first.
COMMENT 306735P	2012-08-10 09:04 AM
Not ready for nudes, nudes, nudes, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Would not object if they are confined to a desgnated area that is posted for them, like somewhere on Santa Cruz Island maybe.
MARTINSHAPIRO	2012-08-10 09:12 AM
If god intended us to be nude, we would have been born that way! ... a comment from my wife.
RESIDENT	2012-08-10 10:07 AM
Strange that so many people are conditioned to think that our behavior must be governed by passing laws to control what we can or can't do. If the woman wasn't hurting anyone why should the assumption be that she was, or should be, breaking some law? If she looked good dressed as she was, smile and say good day. If she didn't look so good to you, look the other way and go about your own business.
COMMENT 306790	2012-08-10 10:10 AM
Aquaholic, you're projecting. Your sweeping generalization simply is not true.
COMMENT 306798	2012-08-10 10:21 AM
I agree with Aquaholic. If the topless lady was lying on the beach in a more secluded area, privacy might have been the goal, but by actually strolling down a public beach she should expect receiving attentive gazes by any male passing by. Who is she kidding?
ANDY	2012-08-10 10:31 AM
437 + 2
COMMENT 306811	2012-08-10 10:34 AM
In that general area I have seen a woman swimmer who swims topless. She keeps her towel and a top against the cliff rocky area. She appears to be a healthy, well tanned 60+ years old. I applaud this. I laughed aloud when I was passed by a 40- 50 year old male jogger in running shoes who carried a pair of shorts in his hand. Seeing a male whose body parts were jogging up and down was an amusing sight.
COMMENT 306819P	2012-08-10 10:54 AM
I didn't get the impression the OP was offended, just curious. Why all the snarky retorts that he (?) should mind his own business? Isn't that what he's doing? I agree with Aqua, anyone walking down a non-nude beach topless is welcoming attention, and it makes sense since the walker obviously put some effort and risk into those boobs. Unless the law's changed, pubic nudity is illegal here; a few years ago there was a widely publicized "sting" on a nude beach near Summerland, with cops arriving from land and sea. Gee whiz! More Mesa beach is still holding out, and the Europeans I know go there. They live here and aren't into shocking people. By the way England is not considered Europe by English or Continentals, over there.
COMMENT 306833	2012-08-10 11:10 AM
@437 I agree wholeheartedly. Boobs are just glands made to feed babies, I don't think we should hypersexualize them. Breasts can be used sexually, but so can mouths. Maybe people shouldn't talk in public, either.
COMMENT 306885	2012-08-10 12:49 PM
I been a Mesa Beach goer for 36 years. Mesa Lane about 20 years ago had a lot of topless women typically a few hundred yards West (Not North) towards Hendries. Then there were a few years of More Mesa nude demeaner. I been to Mesa Lane beach 50 times this summer for a 30 minute swim and there are topless girls / women periodically. Not usually right where the lane goers towel out. Seems really mellow, they are enjoying getting their tans and not overtly pushing it into other folks or families. Most lay open air and cover up for their beach swim. No big deal. Most are a way's away from the staircase btm. I heard a radio show that talked about the last 200 years of brassiere history and that the bra could be restricting / interrupting lymphatic and other body fluids moving just inside our skin. I am hoping it stays mellow and does not get to a exhibitionist, truck stop nude beach like a few I have heard reports of up north. Where people go for casual hookups.
COMMENT 307021	2012-08-10 04:36 PM
Way too much concern over other people's behavior that doesn't and shouldn't have any effect on you. People, get a life. I think it's ridiculous for us to impose clothing requirements that apply inequally to each gender. If it's ok for men to sunbathe topless at the beach, then so should it be for women. PERIOD. The rules about covering the private, genital parts are ancient, time-honored, and appropriate anywhere other than in the privacy of one's own home, or at a nudist colony. Just stop trying to dictate what other people are allowed to do.
AUNTIE S.	2012-08-10 06:30 PM
1.5 miles South of the entrance to Hendry's? Were you walking or swimming?
COMMENT 307732	2012-08-13 11:42 AM
Maybe she gave her top to a dude who needed it more.

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