Why I Stopped Going to the Nude Beach

Sauvie’s Island was my place to swim and then I took off my rose-colored sunnies.

Debra G. Harman, MEd.
6 min readSep 17, 2022

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Woman standing facing a body of water. Shadows and light stripe her upper back. She may have a halter top on, but it’s unclear.
Photo by Keen: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-standing-in-front-of-body-of-water-879486/

Kelli and I used to go to Sauvie’s Island in the summer and swim mostly naked.

We wore bikini bottoms. Or blue-jean cut offs. We were in our early 20s, and loved lying in the sun. A lot of like-minded people lay around nearby, and no one…

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