Is Pride exempt from public indecency rules?

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DD (aged 14) went into London today with a friend she is staying with. I can only assume friend’s parents didn’t realise it was pride weekend and we don’t live anywhere near London so had no idea.

Aside from the fact that it was a complete ballache getting back out because tube stations were closed, DD said she was shocked at some of the things she saw in terms of arses on display with men just wearing “thongs”.

How is it OK to have such sexualised stuff going on in view of young kids?

Fetish gear and a thong are not the same thing

OP didn't say fetish gear. She said thong.

Haha, touché

We don't go for days out in London during July anymore because the level of indecency was so, so bad.

Am I living in a parallel universe? Honestly, I have no words.🙄

I live in London. I will be refusing to go into the office on Monday due to it being July and the levels of indecency being so very bad in July. I’m sure my boss will understand.

You don't need to watch! What do you think should change? I'm curious.

Do you live in london, or a big city?

Big cities are full of unique and weird happenings - thats what makes it so great

People wanna do away with the nightclubs, the events, the carnivals, the naked bike ride

Its just one day of the year 😄, its part of what makes london so cool

Or alternatively, people could leave their overtly sexualised behaviour at home.

If you’re gay and proud of it, because homophobia is fucking disgusting, then good luck to you and you have my full support. But if you’re into fetish gear, whatever your sexuality, whilst that’s fine I think it’s reasonable to keep it the fuck off Oxford Street at 3pm on a Saturday.

Touché my ass. I saw a bum cheek, now I need therapy, my poor kids were traumatised.

Actually I'm the first person to call out man hating on here. It's more to do with the context of lack of consent of being subjected to nudity at an event advertised as 'family friendly '. I don't want to see men or women's arses. And if you really do regularly see women in thongs in public walking around in town, I'd expect them to be reported for public indecency. The same way a man jn Speedos on the beach is acceptable, but if he was walking round Tesco : same applies, public indecency.

Why should someone have to change their route to avoid seeing someone's arse? Or someone dressed in fetish gear? Surely it's reasonable to assume you wouldn't see these things in public?

The point exactly. Teens live in London.

It's their time to celebrate, ONE day.

🙄 not my point.

Again, WHY do you care?

That’s it everyone. Whip out your blindfold and cover your kids eyes as soon as you see fetishized behaviour at a public event like Pride. It’s you who must cover your eyes. It’s you who must go it of your way to protect children from it.

We mustn’t disturb the enjoyment of weirdos.

Do you constantly swerve when on beaches to avoid bikini bums and speedos? 😂😂😂

Gay people are weirdos, right. You've just shown who you are.

Whose time to celebrate? I know many gay people, and none of them want to celebrate their sexuality in that way. In fact several of them have told me they hate Pride because it perpetuates the myth that gay people are sex-obsessed deviants.

It’s not Fetish Pride.

Wearing a thong isn't celebrating anal sex 🤣🤣🤣

Also, you don't know anything about the posters here to be suggesting we are all white and straight...

Because, there's a two tier system that's been successfully achieved.

It's just the gullible #bekind shouties are too brainwashed to see it.

But I do have to see it, if it's happening right in front of me! Obviously I would then turn the other way, but I've already seen it!

I think people of both sexes should wear clothes which cover them from their nipples to upper thighs, at the very least, when in public. I also think people should refrain from wearing fetish gear in public. I cannot understand why this is a controversial opinion.

Oooh I'd bet good money you are.

Live and let live. 100%

Maybe the weather reports can add this in now?

Pollen count: high
Humidity levels: 100%
Indecency levels: critical

CENTRAL LONDON IS NOT A FUCKING BEACH.

Weirdos and weirdos. You are mistaking the vast majority of the gay community for the sex-obsessed kink minority who have hijacked Pride and turned it from a celebration of sexuality during a time of repression into a celebration of sex itself.