AIBU to think this is absolutely disgusting and unecessary.

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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

I agree.
I walk alone in woodland near my home, I pass other people, but it is isolated. If I saw a man naked walking near me I would be alarmed and afraid.
It is to do with social norms and context.
It is unusual to see naked people in a pub, and I wuld have red flags in my head.
If they are prepared to disregard these social norms then what other bizarre ways of thinking may they have? I would view the as loose cannons and give a wide berth.

I remember some years ago the naked rambler was active, he would strip off to go pick up his children from primary school, and stand naked at the school gates with other parents.

Did the managers say to each clothed customer when they were ordering their food "Just giving you the heads up we allow naked customers and there are a couple popping in soon" or have a sign saying "Naturists Welcome!".

😂 that's your argument.

The point is that its rude, inconsiderate and causes upset to the people around them.
And its an extra layer of problematic for a man to expose his penis to women and children without them expecting it and when any reasonable person would know most of them would be uncomfortable.
As others have said, this can cause considerable trauma in those with a history of abuse.
There is a fairly simple rule here and that is "Is it a surprise penis?"
Seeing a penis should never be a surprise. It should either be somewhere expected such as a male changing room or clearly designated (!) naturist space or to someone who would reasonably expect to see it come out (in a consenting relationship for e.g).
This isn't that difficult. I'm tired of men getting their dicks out in front of people who don't want to see them and then acting like women are prudes when we object.
No surprise penis.

Ridiculous people. Save it for naturalist areas

We're brought up to be embarrassed by our own nudity and other people's. That's how it is in most countries, especially cold ones! So yes, what they did is gross. Plus, who would want to sit on those chairs after? Did they put special covers on them?

Well going by the near unanimous disdain on this thread I think it’s clear that there are societal norms of decency that most people abide by and expect of others, regardless of whether a law exists.

There are people who will look for loopholes in laws so that they can do exactly what they want and yet still defend themselves in court. The law has to constantly and pedantically and expensively work to catch up with this nonsense. For example: “She didn’t say no” has now become “she has to say yes”.

But surely you can acknowledge the difference between a specific place where people go to be naked - where the participants know in advance that others will be naked - and just rocking up naked to a busy public place?

And I've been to Germany before, I didn't see loads of naked people walking around the streets....

No different from yours eh.

Naturist I think.

You'll not get many naked people at your average RSPB reserve.

'Nudist friendly' is not 'public', by definition.

'Nudist friendly' is a place where everyone has tacitly or explicitly consented to be naked. (Fine.)

'Public' space is not. People are not routinely naked in public in the UK.

I found it funny, too, but I hope they brought something to sit on.

Were they identifying as dressed?

Do you polish your Cool Girl badge every night or just on Thursdays?

Is that hygienic?

Ridiculous argument there, but...

How about at genitals? I suspect that works for lost people.

*MOST people

Neil has a nice shoulder bag in the picture, though I should imagine the strap would be uncomfortable .

So you think no one would be offended at people in some boxers and a pair of Knickers? Of course people would.

So not being bothered enough about nudity to be horrified and disgusted by this equals me trying to be cool? In any case it's Wednesday today.

I am so over men insisting on their human right to display their penises to everyone, apparently due to the belief that anyone who doesn't want to see their penis is repressed and needs to be educated to accept it.

Put it the fuck away, Neil.

Wouldn't expect anything else from the railway!

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I hope the attention seeking idiots spilt hot gravy where it hurts.

Let's face it, the majority of people look better with clothes on

There was a bloke who posted on social media local to me saying he’d be walking around a local area in the nude. It was the midst of winter. He got really upset because people rather than being shocked took the mickey. Obviously lots of referring to what the weather would be doing to his genitalia.

If the other restaurant diners had laughed themselves silly I’m not sure this couple would’ve been quite so happy with the reaction.