PROVINCETOWN, MA — For some unexplained reason, sun worshippers are flocking to Provincetown beaches to get frisky in the sand. Cape Cod National Seashore officials say they’re mad as hell about the trend, and they’re not going to take it anymore.“This is not what we’re interested in seeing,” National Seashore Superintendent George Price told the Boston Herald. “Over the last couple of years, public [sex] acts like this have been viewed by visitors.”

Gasp!

According to a report in the Herald, an alarming number of couples engaging en flagrant delicti on public beaches are chasing away family vacationers. Typically, the picturesque beaches attract tens of thousands of tourists from around the world each year. Consequently, local officials are cracking down: Citations for public indecency have more than tripled, from an annual average of 40 to 132 in 2007.

“Laws and enforcement have not changed,” Price told the paper. “It just seems to be something that some people decided we want to see.”

Complaints have flooded in from groups as diverse as whale watchers who accidentally found themselves viewing a pod of naked men (no word on the men’s sizes) to a family from New Jersey that reported couples and men having “sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open,” according to the Cape Cod Times.

“The majority is gay, but we’ve had issues with hetero sex as well,” Price told the Boston Herald. “Families are upset and outraged.” He added that public sex violates federal and state laws and can incur heavy fines.

“It’s really two issues,” Price told the paper. “One is the nude sunbathing, which has been around since the ’70s and ’80s, and that issue is being addressed. But the issue that we’re talking about today is public sex: It’s a seashore problem and it’s a town problem.”