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New neighbour sunbathing in the nude

827 replies

ZooHannah · 13/06/2025 22:26

We moved in to our dream home last month, we have a corner plot with only one direct neighbour who is a (I believe) single man and has always been polite and friendly in our initial conversations.

DH looked out of our bedroom window today to see our neighbour sunbathing completely starkers. He came downstairs to tell me and I couldn’t believe it when I went upstairs and saw for myself.

I want to go round to say something however DH has told me I am being ridiculous and he is on his own property so can go what he wants.

AIBU? I appreciate neighbourly relations but I am absolutely repulsed by this.

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SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:05

Mothership4two · 16/06/2025 08:59

There are probably people who think reading a book is odd.

I had a teacher who couldn't read for pleasure for more than 30 minutes at a time because when she was a child her mum would her stop reading and give her a task to do instead. She can't have thought it was normal behaviour

I think spending a portion of your lifetime watching people kick a ball around is odd (or throwing or hitting it).

What someone thinks is odd is another person's normal

Yes, I understand that.

However, most people I know have read a book, kicked a ball about etc but not many people I know sunbathe naked in their not very big, not very private garden.

Big, private garden do what ever you want. Infact, I might try it at the weekend as it's forecast lovely weather.

Mothership4two · 16/06/2025 09:24

That's very MN to use a thread to let people know you have a big garden

He's as entitled as you to go au naturel and his garden sounds fairly private if the neighbours have to go to an upstairs window to see him.

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:31

Mothership4two · 16/06/2025 09:24

That's very MN to use a thread to let people know you have a big garden

He's as entitled as you to go au naturel and his garden sounds fairly private if the neighbours have to go to an upstairs window to see him.

😂

I probably won't go au naturel this weekend. I was just joking. I'm not taking this thread half as serious as some of you.

The best post on here was to shout Morning, I can see your nob.

I also liked the post where one woman hangs her washing out naked sometimes.

I'm just a pants on kinda girl unless I'm with the DH.

AnneMarieW · 16/06/2025 09:32

YABU. He’s just naked, he’s not doing anything sexual so why does it matter if your kids see him? Really don’t understand why you are bothered 🤷‍♀️

It’s our natural state, imo kids instinctively recognise this and are either not bothered (the way young kids will happily run around clothes free if allowed to) or once they are older and have been taught that they are supposed to cover up when anyone can see them, they will get the giggles if they see someone naked instead. I really don’t think your kids will be shocked or traumatised by this blokes naturism.

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:35

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 08:43

I didn't say it was illegal, I just think it's odd.

Big, private garden do what the hell you want. I'm no prude.

Comparing reading a book to not wearing pants is silly.

You are being a bit prudish

And I was comparing the NEED to do something...

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:36

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:35

You are being a bit prudish

And I was comparing the NEED to do something...

Not prudish at all, trust me.

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:37

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:36

Not prudish at all, trust me.

And yet you can't handle a man just laying there naked

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:39

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:37

And yet you can't handle a man just laying there naked

Love it when my DH does it, I have no interest in seeing my neighbours. It wouldn't upset me, I'd find it funny.

Fundayout2025 · 16/06/2025 09:39

Gattopardo · 14/06/2025 00:11

People are free to do whatever the fuck they like in their own garden (or should be). The line is drawn at draping their, uhh, physique over your garden fence when pruning their azaleas, because that impinges directly on you.

If you don’t want to see what your neighbours get up to in the privacy of their own garden then you erect a 6 foot fence around your own boundary and undertake not to gawp at them out of your first floor windows.

Lol that could be dangerous when pruning.

Seriously though I can't see the issue.Ans what if one of the kids did glance out of the window and see a naked body? It's a body. We all have them. Why is it so terrible.

Unless he's laying there banging one out at the tine

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:40

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:37

And yet you can't handle a man just laying there naked

Naked Attraction makes me laugh. When they get rejected and they have to do the walk of shame after they've they've had their body scrutinised. Why would you?

Fundayout2025 · 16/06/2025 09:44

ZooHannah · 14/06/2025 15:19

Another friend put it nicely - if my kids looked out of the window when at school and saw a naked man, he’d be locked up!

Edited

Probably as the naked man in that case would be in a school playground not his private garden

Mothership4two · 16/06/2025 09:53

Fundayout2025 · 16/06/2025 09:44

Probably as the naked man in that case would be in a school playground not his private garden

😂

Wish they'd bring back the laughing emoji

StrikeForever · 16/06/2025 11:05

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 09:39

Love it when my DH does it, I have no interest in seeing my neighbours. It wouldn't upset me, I'd find it funny.

Finding it funny is a bit infantile

SwimSwamSwimSwam · 16/06/2025 11:06

StrikeForever · 16/06/2025 11:05

Finding it funny is a bit infantile

I don't care. I'm not going to be the only one laughing.

CustardySergeant · 16/06/2025 11:10

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 09:37

And yet you can't handle a man just laying there naked

🤭 No, you shouldn't do that.

DoctorRoseReturns · 16/06/2025 11:49

CustardySergeant · 16/06/2025 11:10

🤭 No, you shouldn't do that.

You certainly couldn't complain about his nakedness after if you did 🤣

Nantescalling · 16/06/2025 12:12

Alltheyellowbirds · 15/06/2025 21:02

This is exhausting. Are you being deliberately obtuse???

It doesn’t matter whether the neighbour spying on him out of her upstairs window claims to be distressed. It doesn’t matter whether you deem it to be “a problem”.

What matters is whether the naked person INTENDED to cause distress.

Exhibit A)
Naked person hiding behind the bushes in the park and jumping out to wave his erect penis at passing schoolgirls - INTENDING TO CAUSE DISTRESS.

Exhibit B)
Person snoozing in the sun in their fenced, private back garden - NOT INTENDING TO CAUSE DISTRESS.

Do you never listen and learn?

This !

Welshmonster · 16/06/2025 22:29

Let him know that he can be seen as he might not realise and he could put a screen up if he wanted to. It won’t be nice weather for long so won’t be a problem

grumpygrape · 16/06/2025 22:32

Just wondering if next door neighbour went on the London Naked Bike Ride 🤔😉🤣

llizzie · 16/06/2025 23:41

Does the vote mean most of us are envious?

MarvellousMonsters · 16/06/2025 23:44

AllFours · 13/06/2025 22:27

Don’t look 🤷‍♀️

Simple

Lillibridge · 17/06/2025 07:39

llizzie · 16/06/2025 23:41

Does the vote mean most of us are envious?

Quite possibly. I definitely would if I was brave enough.

Mothership4two · 18/06/2025 11:35

llizzie · 16/06/2025 23:41

Does the vote mean most of us are envious?

Of neighbour or the OP?

Assume it means most voters agree with OP's husband

llizzie · 18/06/2025 12:49

Mothership4two · 18/06/2025 11:35

Of neighbour or the OP?

Assume it means most voters agree with OP's husband

''Methinks the lady doth protest too much''

Lillibridge · 18/06/2025 13:05

I bet the first time must be a bit daunting.