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Calgary has 2 nude beaches — here's who is using them and why | CBC News Loaded
Many people think of Europe when they hear the words "nude beach," but there are accepted spots for clothing-optional recreation in a number of North American cities —including two in Calgary. Warning: This photo essay includes images of nudity that may not be suitable for some viewers.
Christina Ryan · CBC News · Posted: Jul 03, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: July 3, 2021
Many people think of Europe when they hear the words "nude beach" — but as the Calgary Nude Recreation group points out, a number of North American cities also have accepted spots for clothing-optional recreation.
They range from the most popular, Haulover Beach in Miami, which sees as many as 500,000 nudist visitors a year, to well-known sites in Canada such as Hanlan's Point in Toronto or Wreck Beach in Vancouver. (The latter sees up to 14,000 visitors on busy summer days, according to the Wreck Beach Preservation Society.)
But many Calgarians are unaware that nude beaches also exist in the city — at least two, according to Calgary Nude Recreation .
Freelance photojournalist Christina Ryan recently trekked out to the two beaches to find out more about who is using them and why, taking all of the images in this photo essay.
Here, Greg Million, who is new to the scene, starts the hike to Calgary Nude Beach with Calgary Nude Recreation member Kristen McMullen as temperatures soar to 28 C on June 3.
Calgary Nude Beach is well off the beaten path in a far western edge of Weaselhead Flats and has existed for more than two decades.
Million and McMullen step carefully down a slope.
The path to the nude beach in the Weaselhead can be tricky to navigate.
Here, Million brushes off his pants after sliding down a steep portion of the trail.
The other nude beach in Calgary is a more recent clothing-optional recreation area in Fish Creek Provincial Park called Hidden Beach.
Are the beaches legal? According to the Calgary Nude Recreation group, the simple answer is: yes and no.
Section 174 of the Criminal Code of Canada states: "Everyone who, without lawful excuse, (a) is nude in a public place, or (b) is nude and exposed to public view while on private property, whether or not the property is his own, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction."
Million and McMullen cross a channel of the Elbow River to join others at Calgary Nude Beach.
The law states charges over nudity can be pursued only in absence of a "lawful excuse" and with the permission of the Attorney General.
Calgary Nude Recreation argues that case law from B.C. has established the right to rent city facilities for private nude events, also noting that the actions of local government authorities to allow clothing-optional recreation (at Wreck Beach or Hanlan's Point, for example) appear to be accepted lawful excuses as people aren't being charged.
Nudity without a sexual component cannot be immoral or indecent behaviour, the group argues.
McMullen and Greg Million locate a prime spot to set up on the sand.
Calgary Nude Recreation says it's had an understanding with law enforcement for years with no problems.
Here, naturists enjoy the the cool water at Hidden Beach in Fish Creek Provincial Park in Calgary on June 13.
Calgary Nude Recreation says on its website that the group was established "in the belief that contextually-appropriate social nudity can be a powerful tool for individuals to gain confidence, free themselves from body shame, and allow a new connection with the self and others. We strive to create spaces where nudity is normalized, empowering, and beneficial to the community."
Not everyone involved with Calgary Nude Recreation may identify as a nudist or naturist, the group says.
They might just enjoy the odd skinny dip or naked day at the beach.
The group hosts clothing-optional wave pool swims, hikes and beach days along the river.
For many participants, naturism is both a philosophy and a practice. They enjoy being in a nude state at home, outdoors and at sanctioned indoor events.
Here, Melissa Lynne (who asked that her surname not be used for fear of job repercussions) dips her son Cohen Sharlow's toes in the water as partner John Sharlow looks on while relaxing at Hidden Beach on June 13.
"Society quietly imposes a level of body-shame from an early age," Calgary Nude Recreation writes. "Being seen or being caught naked is one of the biggest embarrassments people can have. Movies and entertainment media promote unrealistic and often sexual expectations of nudity.
"People learn to better accept their and others' bodies when they see normal nudity more often."
McMullen holds a photography flash umbrella for Million at the nude beach in the Weaselhead.
McMullen, who has been a member of the group for more than two years, says she loves to help people love themselves just as they are.
Calgary Nude Recreation member Dustin Port stands with McMullen and Million as they bask in the fading sun.
The sun sets as McMullen and Million cross the river to head home.
Christina Ryan is an award-winning photojournalist based in Calgary with more than 15 years of experience. Ryan currently freelances to newspapers, magazines and the CBC as well as teaching in the photography program at SAIT, where she's inspired by watching people learn to master their cameras and chase the light.
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Fresh off news that Britney Spears is going to release a tell-all memoir soon — and getting $15 million for the trouble — she's spreading a little sunshine with new nudes posted to her grid . Spears's latest post shows her enjoying some time in the ocean and she's totally nude, with nothing but strategically placed emoji (diamonds in varying sizes) to obscure everything that needed to be covered to keep the photos from getting flagged.

Spears's signature blonde hair was wavy and blowing in the ocean air and she even had her go-to black eyeliner on as she smiled and stretched in the shallow water. And while she's not wearing any clothes, she did have a choker necklace on with a cameo charm at the center.

Spears also appeared in a loved-up clip that shows her holding tight to her fiancé, Sam Asghari. He posted the video over the weekend, writing, "Island love 🏝 with the lioness @britneyspears."

It's not in the ocean, but the two are soaking in a swimming pool surrounded by lush palm trees. While neither of them shared exactly where they are, it's safe to assume that they managed to fit in a tropical getaway to celebrate Asghari's birthday on March 4. The two got engaged back in September 2021 and have been dating for five years.

Is nakedness invisibility’s opposite? Maybe not, but, if it’s unapologetically displayed, it can be a kind of antidote to erasure.
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Some clichés about the cycle of life are true. When you are raising young children, the days are long and the years are short. And when you’re a woman, you will, at about age fifty, become invisible. All our lives, as girls and younger women, we prepare ourselves to be looked at. We grow accustomed to registering —to attracting, evading, or denouncing the male gaze. In “ Mrs. Dalloway ,” Clarissa, newly aware of herself as a woman of a certain age, walks down the street thinking, “This body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing—nothing at all.” The cultural critic Akiko Busch, quoting that line from “Mrs. Dalloway,” notes that “a reduced sense of visibility does not necessarily constrain experience.” True, but it takes some getting used to, and when it’s punctuated, as it often is, by condescension—when strangers are suddenly addressing you not even as “Ma’am” but, with a verbal wink, as “young lady”—you may not want to get used to it.
Is nakedness invisibility’s opposite? Maybe not, but, if it’s voluntarily, unapologetically displayed, it can be a kind of antidote to diminishment and erasure. A nude portrait of a woman older than, say, sixty is an unusual image—even a taboo one. To make such photographs, and, even more so, to pose for them, is an act of defiance. In the course of her career, the photographer Jocelyn Lee has been drawn to nude bodies of all shapes and ages. Her latest book, “Sovereign” (Minor Matters Books), features a selection of her photographs of women who range in age from their mid-fifties to their early nineties, posing naked, frequently outdoors and in natural settings.
Lee’s color images of older women are painterly, classical, but also frank. Skin puckers, crinkles, and sags. Bellies poof and pleat. A silver-haired woman stands knee-deep in a pond strewn with autumn leaves, looking directly at the camera, her elbows angled back like wings to reveal one intact breast and one mastectomy scar. A naked woman sits on a blanket of moss in the woods, her breasts and belly soft, so at ease she might be napping. In “Nancy at 78, Maine at 18,” a woman and her grandniece stand nude on a beach. Side by side, their long-legged, curly-headed bodies rhyme, but also remind us of the ways time will remake our familiar, corporeal selves. The image is not some grim memento mori, though. The women lean comfortably toward each other, touching shoulders; the younger woman’s arm loops through the elder woman’s. Behind them, the sea and sky are a light-suffused blue.
Lee, who is fifty-nine, lives part of the year on a lush, wooded property outside of Portland, Maine. She’s taken some of the portraits of older women at a pond near her house, and others on beaches at Martha’s Vineyard and elsewhere. The natural settings, devoid of sociological detail and inherently beautiful, tend to banish ironic readings and extend a certain benevolence to the naked subjects. We aren’t in paradise here—nobody in these photos looks that naïve—but we are not in any sort of judgment-laden social space, either. Lee told me that she hoped the locations implied the warmth of sun on the body—“that kind of comfort and love”—and communicated the idea that we are “all essentially sensual creatures.”
“The camera can be very cruel depending on how you use it,” she said. “There’s a whole tradition of photography that’s based on criticality and cruelty. Diane Arbus —whom I love, by the way—looked for unflattering moments to create a sense of drama. Sometimes that can be done with the juxtaposition of elements in a space, the exaggeration of the appearance of wealth or poverty, harsh lighting.”
Lee said that, by contrast, her work had sometimes been criticized for being “too earnest or romantic.” But she made her peace with that a long time ago. Through her photography, Lee has always tried to understand “what lay ahead.” When she was still in college, long before she had children herself, she photographed a pregnant friend in the nude as part of her thesis project. “This was before the Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover; people didn’t really know what a pregnant woman looked like,” she said. Through the years, she took many nude photographs of her mother, who, she says, had a remarkable ease in her own skin. Lee continued taking pictures of her as she was dying of cancer.
I’m about six months older than Lee, and, all in all, I consider aging to be far better than the alternative, as my own mother, who died at sixty, the age I am now, used to say. Still, I prefer the cloudy mirror in my bathroom to any in which I can see myself clearly. The older women who posed for Lee in the nude include professors, writers, artists, an astrologer, a hospice worker, and a small-town mayor. To me, they seem very brave, but it bothers me to say so. We all have bodies; if we’re lucky, we all get old, or at least older. Why not show what it looks like?
Two of Lee’s subjects, Judith and Nancy, have been posing for her for decades. Both told me that they don’t love how they look in some of the images, but that they treasured the experience of making them with Lee, whose process is creative and collaborative. Nancy, who is eighty, said, “I cringe when I look at the images, but I know that when I’m ninety I’m gonna say, ‘Ooh, look how great I looked!’ ” Her grandniece Maine, who posed with her, is a photography student. Maine told me that Lee’s image makes her happy because her grandaunt and she look so alike in it. “It’s like seeing myself in sixty years, and I sort of love that,” she said. “I think Nancy is beautiful.” Lee told me that she plans to photograph the pair every year.
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