AIBU to think this is absolutely disgusting and unecessary.

[Gettingbysomehow]

So this happened a few miles away from where I live.
Call me old fashioned but I think this is totally inappropriate and somebody should have called the police.
I have been a naturist for 40 years but the old fashioned kind who doesn't think dangling your genitals in front of families and young children who have gone for a meal is at all appropriate.
I would question why they found the need to do this. There are plenty of naturist clubs in the area.
People go to naturist clubs to get an all over tan and be a member of an organisation that usually has a pool and cheap membership.
My non naturist friends think I'm being stuffy and ridiculous am I?
Diners shocked as naked pair enjoy meal in Burnham-On-Sea pub

Did the chair leave an imprint on their arses when they stood up?
Where did they put their phones and bank cards?

Its exhibitionist and unnecessary and inclusivity doesn't mean an option to be clothed or not
It wasn't too long ago that topless men weren't allowed in pubs/ clubs etc due to public decency
If I was the landlord I wouldn't have served them food for health and safety reasons

I sat on a leather seat the other day, with bare legs and a skirt that wasn't a mini but was above my knee. When I got up it felt as if it had ripped the skin from the back of my legs (it's my own chair at work). I would hate to think what their arses felt like.

@Brefugee no, it's Croatia. Naturism is pretty mainstream there too.

This.

Since the pub "researched" naturist, I am guessing the couple made it known they were naturists when they booked a reservation.
If I hadn't paid for my food, I would have left.
I wouldn't go to a naturist beach, bar or restaurant because it doesn't interest me and I wouldn't want it brought to me without my okay.

So 'cyberflashing' is considered a no-no, yet forcing your naked body into the view of a whole load of people is "inclusivity" and a person's "right"? Both are unsolicited views of nakedness.

I don't want to have to be forced to vote someone else's nakedness when it's least expected. That's not being inclusive to me. Where are my rights in this?

Ah, I see. Missed that bit. In that case the pub is complicit in this deliberate exhibitionism. No good.

I think it's probably safe to say that other than in a changing room one should keep one's genitals covered.

A line most normal people would draw I think?

It really would not bother me at all.

Precisely

It's a fetish. It's indecent exposure. The fact that children were present makes it even more unacceptable.

Agreed. I think it’s revolting to have to sit on a seat that someone’s arsehole has been on. I feel the same way about dogs sitting on chairs.

Yes agony! School flashback - thighs sticking to plastic chairs. Now imagine scrotums.

It is showing a distinct lack of care for other people's circumstances or pasts. I know women and a child who due to trauma would be horrifically impacted by seeing a naked man in a setting where it was unexpected and they weren't able to mentally prepare

This.

Yep!

We are normalising perversion in the everyday.

I hasten to add, I don't consider naturism per se to be a perversion, but I do consider imposing your naked body on people who have not consented to it to be a perversion.

The people saying "It's just a naked body - what's wrong with that?" are being disingenuous. It is an offence to public decency and an imposition on other people, as well as being unhygienic - I can't believe that this is in accord with food safety standards. They are walking past other people's tables with exposed genitalia - and skin flakes/ invisible faecal matter, pubic hair etc can float towards other people and their meals.

It's just a nasty, exhibitionistic thing to do. The pub should also offer everyone their money back if they preferred to leave - customers presumably didn't expect this sort of thing when they sat down for what they expected to be a pleasant lunch.

Yes

So many posters seem to be unable to grasp this.

And can anyone explain why this would be different to the example given up thread of a man sitting in a pub fully dressed but with his penis hanging out?

Interesting though that if I was to say, go on Twitter and state biological facts I could likely get a visit from my local constabulary to address my wrong think but sitting in a pub surrounded by young children with my Fanny hanging out and my DH penis lolling around would be eh ok?

Mad times, folks

@Letitrow You're right. That's exactly what's going on. There's a definite push to erode safeguarding and to try to break people's boundaries, particularly women's and children's.

The idea of consent doesn't apply here, because being in a public place nude is not illegal. Consent or otherwise is irrelevant. There are lots of things we might not want to see when out and about in the wide world (and certainly I wouldn't want to see naked people when eating either) but that doesn't mean the other person is committing an offence.

It's a false equivalence to compare it with unsolicited dick pics, which is sending a picture with sexual intent to cause distress directly to a specific individual being targeted.

The offence of indecent exposure (i.e flashing) also hinges on intent to cause alarm or distress. Simply being naked in public and going about your business does not in and of itself meet this definition.

Absolutely.

They're getting off on pushing boundaries and on the fact that the rest of the customers have not consented to this.

This is what happens when "whole selves" are to be celebrated no matter what, and "inclusivity" itself is fetishised.

And it mostly seems to benefit men at the expense of women and children...funny that...

I don't know it can be determined what their intent was. Of course they would say that they didn't intend to cause any distress, but it can't be proven.

I still think it's unsolicited nudity which the perpetrators are inflicting on potentially unwilling members of the public. Those people had no choice, no warning, no right to a refund if they didn't want to see it. I think that's wrong. Their feelings in the matter don't count, apparently.

I live here, found it funny

Lots of things aren’t illegal.
Swearing in front of children isn’t illegal. Picking your nose in public - not illegal. Burping and farting loudly and odorously in an enclosed public space is not illegal. Cutting your toenails or picking wax out of your ear in a restaurant is not illegal as far as I know.