Naked bike ride

[Chocbuttonsandredwine]

Was in London yesterday: naked bike ride. Fine.. not my thing (or many other women). They finished the ride/protest/whatvever and then conjugated near B palace.. and just seemed to be happy wafting their micro penis’s about for kicks and giggles/

A lot of horrid middle aged naked men kicking about just felt unnecessary.

and 🤮

If they have a partner/spouse... I feel sorry for them. Must be awful to be accused of being a pedo every time they get their knob out in their own house.

To be fair, you’re both making it quite easy.

Opinion don't make someone else more dangerous.

We are literally doing nothing that makes us look like sex offenders or pedophiles

You keep throwing in "in front of the children" to try and make it sound like that but it's YOU that brings up children being there

This goes past our house each July. Delightful not. 80% people who shouldn’t even be showing an ankle let alone their willies!!

Reasonable posters: It's legal, they aren't doing anything wrong and they're just living their lives
Hysterical posters: so you want little kids to look at men waving their penises around?
Reasonable posters: Did we say that?

Do you have a standard about what willies should be on show?
OP said she didn't like to see middle aged men's "micro penises"
What about the women and their boobs? Middle aged saggy tits? Are they ok?

If someone is waving their knob about whilst being on a bike.... they are probably performing in some adult only circus.

Just cycling... ffs... unless you are really looking... you do not see any knob or flaps. None. Just legs going up and down.

In the one about sunbathers, it was pointed out that you could stop staring and deliberately going to look at said naked sunbather and those of us who said that were told we were unreasonable

Apparently the concept of "stop staring and don't look" is a foreign one

Shouldn't be showing an ankle? Really?

I'm less worried about naked people than people expressing such extreme opinions about people's bodies.

Opinion 1: Children shouldn’t be exposed to adult nudity in public places.

Opinion 2: It’s fine and not a big deal for children to be exposed to adult nudity in public places.

You think opinion 1 is unreasonable and opinion 2 is reasonable.

One cannot help but draw inferences.

You are drastically simplifying some things and exaggerating others to try and MAKE accusations

Rather than it's being

1. Adults being naked and going about their daily business are not a threat to anyone and should be left alone

2. Adults deliberately making a show of themselves in public, showing their privates off to children and drawing attention to themselves are a concern

Opinion 1 - if a grown up comes up to you and shows you their bits, then tell an adult.
Opinion 2 - we all have bits and they change as we get older. We are in a group and all have bits. It is nothing to be ashamed of

So are you arguing that a naked bike riding protest through the capital is ‘going about daily business’ and not ‘making a show’?

A protest is literally about making a show.
But the naked bike ride ones have been going on for years across the country. It is about the vulnerability of cyclists on the road.

Tell a clothed adult? Or if an adult was also naked but just going about their daily business? It’s okay to tell them??

Sure it is.

Pretty sure that a naked bike ride is not showing your privates off because they do tend to be hidden by the seat...

And it's still not child abuse, not forcing children to look and not waving their privates about

You're still trying to throw around highly emotive and charged language to make yourself look superior

Like I say YOU brought in "the children"

YOU brought in the idea of children being some how "forced" to stare at genitals

YOU brought up the idea of child abuse

If you are so offended but it, then don't look. The events are publicised in advance. Use some intelligence and work out when you can avoid them. Easy.

Fully prepared to be called a prude, but I don’t think naked bike rides (or public nudity anywhere except clearly marked nudist areas) is acceptable. It’s nothing to do with body shaming- naked bodies aren’t offensive, disgusting or shameful, but they should be private.

IMO, clear boundaries that everyone can understand regarding the parts of your body that are ok to show in public keep everyone safer, but especially children. I don’t think it’s particularly safe for children to absorb the message that it’s perfectly normal to see a naked adult when they’re walking down the high street- I’d rather my child got the message that showing your genitals in public violates a societal norm. Otherwise, in a child’s mind, how could they recognise that it’s not ok for a teacher, or an older child, or an adult relative to show them their genitals when they’ve seen a big group of people cycling naked through their local high street and the adults that they trust react as though that’s totally acceptable behaviour?!?!

I’m not remotely saying that people who participate in these bike rides pose a threat to children. I’m saying that I think having the boundary ‘it’s not ok to be naked in public’ is very sensible. Surely establishing a simple, straightforward rule that you don’t show your genitals except to a doctor or in the very limited context of having a bath or shower in the privacy of your family home and nobody else should be showing theirs either is wise- not because these parts of your body are shameful, but because they’re private in a way that your arms/legs/whatever aren’t and that you should be wary if someone doesn’t follow this (not particularly restrictive) societal norm.

Seriously, when did the concept of "it's rude to stare" end?

Things we teach children but don't really mean are an absolute:

Don't play with fire - but look at this performer on stage
Don't jump off high things and swing off ropes - but let's go to the Circus
Don't fight your siblings - but here is boxing and wrestling on TV

"If an adult shows you the inside of their pants, tell Mummy" and then Mummy can say "no, that person is doing something different. But well done for telling Mummy, always do that"

Yes, I would worry about one of them having an accident and falling off their bike. They could be very seriously injured as they would have no protection at all.

Also "societal norms" depend on ... society

So there are societies where bare breasts are common and expected. Or societies where full nakedness bare body paint is normal.

Some of those are societies your children may well encounter when on holidays. So you need to be prepared to explain "some people do things differently"