Willies on the beach

Are you ok? Hopefully not an actual predator. Funnily enough I dont like those. ;)

Really bizarre…

And all of my comments that this post was strange were deleted by admins and I was given a warning. We all know what this post was and what it was trying to achieve.

Oh, totally. I never let these sorts of "maybe they're just totally thick, maybe they're putting feelers out to encourage the normalisation of paedos" things go past. Absolutely never, and not in real life either.

I'd very definitely have told the "hey let the paedos gawp at my children, what's the harm" poster what I thought, and the owner of the thread would have been told "Don't be bloody stupid, of course we don't encourage 10 year old boys to stand around naked in public when it is completely unnecessary, and don't pretend it's got a single thing to do with being prudish".

I cannot believe you’ve actually posted this! So what you are saying is you feel it’s potentially ok to expose your child to a peadophile because it makes your life a little easier getting them changed? Unbelievable…..just unbelievable 😡

Yes it’s too old and in my experience by that age they’re starting to get very shy about being naked around anyone including parents.

I think its just wiser to encourage a quick change because sadly you dont know who is about. Personally I think little children look a bit vulnerable naked on the beach but they probably feel fab. Do what you like and others will do same. I dont think anyone is wrong

I'm British and I also think Brits are weird about nudity. If you were nude in a shopping centre or museum, fine that's weird and inappropriate but places where you need to get changed for normal daily activities like swimming, showering etc it shouldn't be such a scary thing.

I always find nudity a funny one and depends on the context. Like 5 year old, on the beach not that big of a deal. Even 10 year old getting changed amongst friends/family at home, I don't think that big of a deal because they're just getting changed. But I mean being told to cover up by your mum, if you're dawdling and chit chatting with your nob out, also not that big of a deal.

Yeah pretty disappointed with mumsnetHQ for this

And that’s why we immediately push back. Maybe this poster is a bit thick. Itll be very easy for pedos to manipulate her.

There are people who will very carefully try to push the norms and acceptance, it's the one area nobody normal has ever shifted on though even an inch, thank God. It's the one place that they always fall down - normal people are revolted by horrified by and loathe paedos and all things paedo adjacent.

You sometimes see very careful test the waters comments, the poor child molesters aren't doing any harm if they are just thinking it, right? Next step is claiming they just can't help it, poor things. Next thing you know they're pals with Peter Tatchell and writing letters to the Guardian claiming that not all child abuse is "unwanted, abusive or harmful"

You will see the same sort of people trying to claim that there's a difference between a paedo who acts on it and a paedo who doesn't (or pretends not to), the ACKSHUALLY bunch.

Anyone who ever even remotely tries to defend, normalise, downplay paedos or anything paedo related is flying more red flags than the Tooting Popular Front.

Of course, I'm not saying that commenter is one of those. I mean, I'm sure THEY have a very good reason for this weird comment. Right?

Ew, this weird and unnecessary thread is still up? How bizarre.

This is so sick. I can’t actually believd you said that! And if said person gets a photo of your child or uses your child for inspiration? How can you be ok with this?

A creepy and unnecessary thread though mumsnet which will attract pedos

You didn't read that did you . . . .

Off course a 10yo shouldn’t be naked in front of others. I would expect this of a 5yo too but more understanding

Ten is way too old to be getting it out on the beach. A ten-year-old can potentially be only a couple of months away from starting secondary school and really shouldn't be standing around naked in a public place like a beach. Pretty sure no 10-year-old I've ever known would be even remotely comfortable with that.

I'm generally quite lax about this sort of thing, but I think 10 is too old to be standing around chatting with no pants on. I couldn't get wound up about it either though.

Netherlands hosts the highest number of child sexual abuse reports 82,605 (32%) in the EU, followed by Slovakia with 31,826 (12%)

Oh dear.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/eu-still-hosts-the-most-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-the-world/

I always read these posts and think no wonder Brits are so unhappy, but I'm Dutch! This is completely fine whether he's 10 months, 10 years or 50 years, so long as he's not doing it sexually. Even my British parents walk from the shower to their room naked. Not seeing normal adult naked bodies is surely why children get so many hang ups and pump themselves full of filler and steroids in their 20s because they've only ever seen naked adults in porn.

For normalisation and grooming purposes.