Posted on 06/22/2008 4:47:58 PM PDT by traumer
BOSTON -- Park rangers who patrol the Cape Cod National Seashore around Provincetown and Truro are trying to come up with strategies to discourage increasingly common incidents of illegal public sex on area beaches.
They say complaints about explicit, open public sex on the national park beaches have tripled in the past decade, with activity ranging from flashing to men's public orgies.
The rangers have been trying to crack down by enforcing a federal misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, which prohibits obscene acts, the Cape Cod Times reported.
Seashore rangers issued 132 citations for public sex acts last year, compared with about 70 annually from 2003 to 2006, and about 40 citations annually in prior years, Seashore acting chief ranger Craig Thatcher said.
A New Jersey family walking with children in the dunes wrote in a September 2007 letter that they encountered "several couples and then a large group of men having group sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open," the park service said.
A whale-watch boat captain carrying a boatload of tourists also reported seeing 20 to 30 nude men "playing around" near Wood End Lighthouse, another letter from August 2007 reported.
Provincetown has a large gay population and attracts large numbers of gay tourists, according to the Times.
Rangers said they are working with Provincetown police and town officials to start a public education campaign aimed at discouraging the behavior.
I’ve only been down as far as mid-cape but I do know that the tip is almost exclusively homosexual. I’ve never had any problems.
I will add that I live in a urban area and on any given weekend there are men and prostitutes having sex in alley ways, parks, public rest rooms. Two weeks ago I was walking to get a coffee early in the morning when I was startled by what sounded like a scream. In the car on my left was some man having sex with a prostitute.
This goes in cities every night around the entire country I’d bet?
Families should not be subjected to any sort of public sex.
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Of course, it’s the alternative lifestylers doing most of this. Why is it that we don’t see reports of hetero orgies?
they blew up the closet..all by their lonesome...
victims..always the innocent?? Barney leads the
way...JK
Oh, fer cryin' out loud! Why don't you just bust 'em, already!
“Why is it that we don’t see reports of hetero orgies?”
same reason the hetero life expectancy is longer and rate of AIDS infection is significantly lower.
The Attorney General really needs to issue a warning in men’s restrooms - homosexual sex among men is much deadlier than smoking.
Considering some of the sado-masochistic stuff they are said to like, this might be an attaraction?
...and members of Congress can join in on the fun!
Use a blanket - DUH! :)
This goes in cities every night around the entire country I’d bet?
Uh, NO!
Nothing a few hand grenades and a good “dusting” with a couple of M249’s can’t cure.
"Cattle prods! FABULOUS!!!"
Cranberry juice: for those who cannot get their protein any other way. :-D
Hey, no problem. Just do what Oregon did and make it legal then dare anyone to complain and call them homophobic.
Have there been problems recently with time-traveling immigrants from the distant future?
Barney Frank was unavailable for comment. He said he was busy eating!
I’m thinking it would be a perfect place to introduce fire ants..............
You read my mind. I've read stories of people getting caught relieving themselves and having to register.
Of course now we are talking about a "protected class"
teddy swimmer kennedy must be doing better after his surgery then. out and about.
But at least they are “married”!! (Mass. & Kali.)
/sarc
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