The Cape Cod Times and the Boston Herald are reporting on a trend that really gotten outta’ hand lately. Sex on public beaches. Cape Cod National Seashore officials say they’re starting to crack down on public sex acts along that picturesque shoreline after the number of citations for public sex acts has more than tripled from an average of 40 to 132 last year.

It seems the beach in Provincetown has been declared the favorite for homosexuals, and according to George Price, superintendent of the National Seashore, ” it’s certainly not what we’re interested in seeing.” He says “Over the last couple of years, public sex acts like this have been viewed by visitors and they are quick to complain.”

He says officials are baffled as to why the vacation mecca has suddenly become a hotbed of public sex for exhibitionists. Complaints have included whale-watchers sailing past large groups of nude men, and families stumbling on people engaged in sex acts on the pristine national shore that attracts tens of thousands of vacationers from throughout the world every year.

The Cape Cod Times reports that a New Jersey family walking in the dunes, encountered couples and a large group of men having sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open. According to Price, such scenes send vacationing families and tourists packing.

I suppose there are those who would consider the fleeing tourists, bigots or homophobes. I am neither…but it’s certainly not a scene that I’d want my family, my children, to come across. Would you?