Naked bike ride - protect our children

[cleaningthebog]

The one where the men get their jollies showing their cock and balls. There is a petition which is not getting much traction. You may want to sign if you don't want to encourage this.
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-naked-bike-ride-from-being-in-public-spaces

You haven't looked at enough of their website.

They don't emphasis individuals naked close up - but there are plenty of full frontal naked men amongst the pics.

That doesn't seem like a good reason to outlaw these rides.

As a child, my parents took me on naturist holidays. Completely asexual. Saw a lot of naked bodies. Never saw an erect penis.

Last year, our family were walking down The Mall. Unbeknownst to us, the naked bike ride was about to finish! We turned round to see hundreds of naked cyclists speeding towards us. Men and women, but mostly men. And a really surprising number of erections. Literally dozens, I would think.

I found it surprisingly sexualised.

Because she is a girl who has spent much of the last 7 year thinking she is a man? So the irony of finding the male body repugnant is significant. And the fact that her dad is 50 would mean, yes, she would probably find a naked older man rather gross (and no, I didn’t actually mean 50 year olds. As I don’t consider them to be ‘old’ - perhaps you should check your own ageism.)

Does to me - nakedness is acceptable in changing rooms saunas, nudist beaches where all persons present consent.

People sightseeing in London, children and vulnerable people, do not consent. Neither do victims of sexual abuse.

Consent isn't an applicable concept when it comes to what other people are wearing (or not) in public. It is legal to be naked in public. Other people's consent isn't required to be naked in public.

You are quite correct, I am daft. You can of course say something if you want to be called a 'pearl clutcher'.

Well that’s the point of the petition, isn’t it. To explore whether it should be legal. I think it shouldn’t be and am entitled to sign the petition on those grounds.

Oh for goodness sake, get a life!

You know its not just men right OP?

Luckily it is not up to you then eh?

It's not going to do anything though.

Try to imagine for one minute the insane law that would have to be drafted for a nudity ban to have any real impact.

If you banned being naked then first you'd have to define naked and what needs covering up (genitals sounds easy, but what about nipples?Female nipples? What about buttocks? How much buttock, no hotpants allowed? What if it's ok if you've got a small arse but not if you're on the larger side? See same for cleavage / sideboob).

Then you'd have to define covering up (is fishnet OK, or if not what kind of material? What if it's clingy or too thin?)

And then you'd have to define where these laws take effect, because public space is extremely broad and there's no legal distinction between a nudist beach and the car park or the street behind the beach.

And then whatever you decide you'll have to deal with challenges from people on one side who think it's too liberal and the other side who think it interferes with freedom of expression.

I'm telling you now, govt mandating of clothing standards isn't going to happen. The only countries which have laws about how much clothing is to be worn are strictly religious.

I bet you could launch a counter-protest. Make yourself some signs and go stand along the route.

Nakedness is not perverse. Just because people wear no clothes, this doesn't damage children. It's really not a sexual thing.

I worked as an au pair in Denmark. There, everyone was taking their kids to the beaches where there was often nakedness. No one batted an eyelid. Same in Germany (then, West Germany) when I spent an afternoon in a park surrounded by nakedness.

We make such a big thing of something we all have. Children can also learn to tell the difference between generally naked people and those with a sexual motive. And I had to chuckle at the 'men with erections' thing. I very much doubt that happens; it's cold here!

This kind of event is good for shedding those uptight inhibitions we cling to. I have to close by saying I find people's bits not very appealing to look at, but I don't feel at all threatened by them.

I think the thought of the breeze blowing in my pubes as I peddle down the Mall sounds quite nice.

I might sign up for this.

I bet you I don't. I have pretty sound personal reasons for not wanting to see naked people in public.

It can be problematic, they rode past two
ladies. One had a stroke, the other couldn’t reach…..

I haven't read the rest of the thread yet, because this stopped me in my tracks. Kids should not see a naked adult body until they're 16+?

Oh for goodness sake OP, get a grip! It's a bunch of people riding their bikes while wearing no clothing, that's all. If you don't want your precious kiddies to see it then keep them away. Honestly you are being ridiculous.

Not strangers naked bodies, riding bikes making tits of themselves no.

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They tell you the route. If you don't like it stay away from the area that day!

That's not what the poster that I quoted said, though.

And yet here she is ‘saying something’ and no one
Is stopping her….

As I then said, apart from getting called a pearl clutcher etc..................