Naked bike ride

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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 🤮

Naked bodies appear everywhere "without your consent"

Nobody is trying to be a "cool girl" and that's just an insult used to try and shut up women who have a different opinion to "the sisterhood"

2025 strikes again.

My 'undercarriage' would be very unhappy about this 😅

The naked bike ride is 21 years old....

Not really. I have pretty much managed to navigate my life without seeing naked bodies without my consent. I know that I will see people stripping/dressing in a changing room so can chose to use them or shower at home; I know there are paintings/images/statues of naked images in art galleries so can chose to go or not; I know the Mens/top shelf section may have semi naked women on the covers of magazine, I chose not to look; films/TV have nudity warnings so I can chose to watch or not. Ie I give or withhold my consent.

Never seen a naked body IRL without my consent though. A few topless ones on Mediterranean beaches, a lot of ugly ones that could do with better support/increased coverage in the swimsuit department, but no, despite being well travelled and getting on a bit, not been exposed to a strangers nakedness until the london bike ride.

I wouldn't be offended by a group of naked cyclists. I wouldn't personally cycle naked, the thought of falling off my bike or my bum cheeks flapping about for anyone behind me, horrifying thought. 😳

But in public we don't consent to anything we see, do we? If I walk outside now, I could be confronted by literally anything, which I would immediately see and that would be it... non-consensual seeing would have occurred!

Also, it's not 'cool-girl' to say you are not offended by seeing a passing naked body, just because you are offended. It's simply a difference of opinion.

😂

But I think we DO consent - we consent to being exposed to what we anticipate as culturally expected norms? However, it is not the norm in the UK to wander around naked, or to cycle naked (in fact it is a criminal act to do so).

ETA and that’s the point - if it wasn’t ‘shocking’ and a complete contrast to accepted social norms, it would not catch the eye of the public or the media - ie be effective at raising awareness? Though my DD thought they could be just as effective in constumes…

If it were criminal, surely they'd have been arrested?

Completely agree. Previously I’d have thought it was a jolly amusing jape. These days, thanks to feminism, I am fully aware that there are no depths of depravity that (some) men won’t plumb - and an exhibitionist paraphilia is highly likely to be clustered with all sorts of other grim ones.

If the law is a reflection of what society finds acceptable, judging by this thread, these naked exhibitions should be verboten and appropriate measures doled out.

Now you’re being disingenuous! Indecent exposure is an offence under the 2003 Sexual offences Act (and was covered by other legislation prior to this).

Shop lifting is also a criminal offence… whether the police arrest you is an arbitrary thing these days, isn’t it? They SHOULD have been arrested but I can imagine that the practicalities of handcuffing, charging, containing 1000 naked individuals in cells was a bit of a deterrent. Not an excuse, of course.

Yes. Just sounds so uncomfortable.

The reason they didn't get arrested is because this isn't Indecent exposure (given that indecent exposure is when someone deliberately exposes their genitals in order to frighten or upset someone else).

They didn't get arrested because being naked in public is not illegal.

It becomes illegal if it ‘causes alarm or distress to others’… clearly it did.

Do some posters not realise that the organisers must work with the police to set these events up?

"There is no law against nudity in England and you should not be arrested simply for being nude on this protest"

https://wnbrlondon.uk/wnbr-london/need-to-know/behaviour-legality/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Untrue, there has be be intent to alarm or distress

Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, indecent exposure requires that someone intentionally exposes their genitals and intends to cause alarm or distress. If nudity is used for political protest without that intent, it’s not an offence

Is there a way of telling what the motivations of the men in this event are?

Plenty of times TV and Movies will have naked bodies without you "expecting" them

It's caught me out often when watching with family when I was younger and embarrassed seeing naked people on front of my parents

I've also accidentally stopped a show and switched back to the TV to find its a naked body (normally having watched Taskmaster or similar on C4 and then Naked Attraction has come on whilst I was watching a recording)

Judgy, body shaming comments can gtfo

Well, they’re cycling harmlessly with other cyclists, often wearing body paint, in an organised annual cycle organised with the knowledge and permission of the police and local authorities, mostly being laughed at honked at by passersby, rather than flashing their genitals at passing schoolgirls?

More fool them, quite honestly. I imagine most of them were young and perhaps naiive about the world. Doubt there were middle aged women in the same proportions as middle aged men there.

This.

Although we have a couple of nudist areas near us and there appeared to be a crossover or blurred lines between the doggers/public sex participants and the nudists.

I would like society to return to having a sense of public decency and for the people on this thread supporting the behaviour of these people to understand that for every innocent naturist, there will be some dodgy creep taking advantage of our incredibly permissive laws.

The law is unclear and unhelpful. How can we reliably prove ‘intent’ to alarm or distress? What about the experience of the unwilling public? Do we not count?

Why is it ok for some men to get their willies out in public and inflict said willies on the rest of us? Why can’t they do what naturists used to do and find private areas away from public spaces so we can avoid them easily?

It's not illegal to just be naked in public and we regularly see things that "shock" us when we go out because different people have different ideas of "acceptable"

Exactly. They think they're being part of something worthwhile when it's just a kink for these old pervs. When will young women learn?! Say anything and you're an old jealous witch 🙄🙄🙄