To think children shouldn’t be naked at the beach?

[Dolliebobs]

Been at the beach most of the day and I can not believe how many small children are walking around completely naked. Is this still a thing?

Exactly this its not the same world it use to be and parenting needs to keep up with that

Yeah just realised shes American

Oh sorry, I misunderstood!

When I was a young woman, on holiday in Europe I let my boobies run wild and free, those tiny ghosts haunted that stretch of sand all week. A woman said to me ‘those will never tan’ and you know what? They never did. I still don’t know why because my face will go red at the sight of the sun, but the bit of me that never see the sun just thought ‘fuck that’ and stayed white as milk.

I don’t know what the point of this story is to be fair.

Are you actually being serious?

Seriously - you think paedo or paedophile can be made from all the letters in PeapodMcgee... Because that is what an anagram is...

You can make yaffle out of your name, and unfelt, and flaunty - this clearly speaks volumes about you too.

Im still waiting to see what dark horrors will happen to a child if their photo were taken by a paedophile, regardless of clothing (as paedophiles actually don't care if the kid has pair of trunks, baby bikini or swim suit on).

Whilst recogniseable to you, through their ages, most folk will not recognise a toddler they saw in a photo vs a teen or adult in another photo or indeed right in front of them - its a revolting thought of course, but short of locking kids up never to go out in public again, what can you actually do?

I ran around beaches naked, in the UK and france, until around 4 or 5 when I started to want to have shirt/shorts on - I honestly could not give a monkeys if there are photos of me out there as a naked toddler. Not one single shit. There is no way they'd be recognisable as me the adult now.

@Coolpotatoface I meant because I am a survivor of csa perhaps I see things differently. Some of the replies on here make me feel extremely sad. I was not abused by family either although why someone keeps using that as an excuse is beyond me.

If you don’t care about protecting your children from predator’s eyes and cameras maybe you could imagine explaining to your future grown up daughter why you thought you had her permission to expose her? It’s not even hard to keep a pair of pants on.

@WiddlinDiddlin are you totally confident that AI can’t look at a child’s photo and match it to an adults photo on the internet? You sure there is ‘no way’? My iPhone can easily group together photos of the same person.

Why just daughters? Boys are victims too.

Obviously. Strange the lengths people will go to, to split hairs.

Seems like a ‘you do you’ thing to me unless people are thinking the nuddy toddlers are luring hordes of nonces down to the beach

So disrespectful.

Your iphone is selecting from a relatively small range of pictures on your iphone. Not the same as the whole internet.

Ai can have a guess at what a child may look like as an adult - this is of course significantly harder if parents would stop posting photos of their kids that track them through every five minutes of growth from birth on... (note, I didn't say I think its ok to post photos of your kids all over the net, I actually don't but for other reasons.)

Me too! I don’t need to convince anyone else though, they can cover their kids up if they prefer.

Also... why would people be linking a paedos photo of a small child on a beach, with a pic of that person as a teen or adult?

I wouldn't/didn't - it's so easy to film stuff nowadays and there is guaranteed to be at least 1 paedophile around when you consider how many folk are on the beach in general. I do think that Brits can be quite reserved compared to other Europeans, when it comes to nakedness, but it's not exactly difficult to stick shorts and a little rash vest on either. My never had us naked outside as kids either and we found it odd to see other kids naked tbh.

It’s the most natural thing in the world and we should be able to allow it without fear. It’s sad that we can’t. But we really, really can’t. Especially in this age of mobile phones.

I’m really torn on this.
It would be nice not to have to worry about predators but that of course is a factor and we live in the real world.
My siblings and I were allowed to be naked at the beach and public lido, and I don’t think it did us any harm at all.
My own sons have never been naked at the beach but that was more me worrying about sun exposure and skin damage.
One of my nieces is allowed to run around naked at home a lot, which I think could be inappropriate around other kids especially boys, not because they might be predators just because it makes them uneasy and embarrassed at certain ages, and why not just wear pants?

Gosh, you write like a man. How gross.

There is software easily available as a web browser now that can scrape the whole web for photos of you from a tiny fragment of your face in a photo. Things that you or your friends deleted a decade ago will be found. Crimes are already being solved using it overseas. That’s why people are increasingly wearing glasses that cover their eyebrows, hoodies that cover their ears and jaw, surgical masks…

I wouldn’t let my children go naked on the beach. I really don’t see why it’s necessary. But I don’t care what others choose to do with their own kids.

As an Australian I would never in a million years have my toddler go naked at the beach. Usually children are in rashies and hats at the beach, swimwear with long arms and hats with wide brims or legionaries style.

Partially because of the sun, partially because I’m a former Child Protection worker and know that very unpleasant men attend family friendly beaches in hope that small children will be unclothed. It’s easier than ever to discreetly film or photograph children and even without camera phones I just won’t take that risk.

It's never worth the risk. It's not as if it is a huge problem to children, to wear their pants/shorts/cossie.

Ok but... to what end?

Paedos are interested in kids, not adults.

Whats the gain for someone to link an image they should absolutely not have possession of or seen, assuming its an edited-to-depict-child-sexual-abuse image to the now adult?

Whats the gain for someone to link a bog standard beach photo the likes of which most of gen x and early have somewhere in an album, to the now adult?

I am thinking about how I'd feel, I ran around many beaches starkers, in the early to mid 80s... whats gonna happen if someone reveals a pic of bare arsed Widdlin with a side by side of me now?

If they reveal an edited pic displaying child sexual abuse - thats landing them deep in the doodoo, not me.

IMO it’s extremely prudish and OTT to object to very little kids running around starkers on the beach.