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

It's got nothing to do with burjas or Muslims. There's been stabbings and attacks in the park. Other events has seen it closed. Biggot.

What's a Biggot?

Me too!

I wouldn't enjoy it, but I wouldn't find it difficult to avert my eyes and go on about my day. My children might giggle, but I don't think they'd suffer any irreparable damage.

An extra bigoted bigot. So bigoted they doubled the g.

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You must live in a different world to me. There’s no way people would be fine with naked men walking around children where I live (or anywhere else in the UK - mumsnetters would argue anything just to be obtuse).

Let’s hope you start to encounter naked strangers on your travels then so your kids can have a giggle.

I love how posters swing from insisting on single sex toilets and anti trans rhetorics, to suddenly being very free and easy 🤔

Ive never seen children on nudist beaches?

It's always been families on the ones I've visited.

Fingers crossed.

I actually don't care about sharing a toilet with whomever. I recognize, however, that there are women who feel vulnerable in a toilet or changing room and they are entitled for those spaces to be reserved for biological women.

There are lots of confusing things that children will have to at some point learn about.

It's not ok to kill - but it is ok to stop feeding a palliative care patient so that they die - it is ok to be a soldier and kill people - but it is ok for a surgeon to do an operation with a higher than 80% risk of the patient dying?

It's not OK to break the speed limit - but actually there are drivers and vehicles who can, sometimes - and there is a small amount of leeway on speed cameras and police speed monitoring equipment - and Daddy speeds and hasn't been caght..

It's not OK to take drugs - except when it is OK to take drugs.

It's not ok to take recreational drugs that make you lose inhibitions and damage your health - oh except alcohol and cigarettes, those are ok, if you're over a certain age, but actually you can have some alcohol at home if Mummy and Daddy say you can..

This is why children have parents and are looked after and their access to various things is managed. If we have to simplify every single piece of legislation in the country down to the black and white a small child can understand... life would be very regimented and pretty bloody miserable!

No-one on this thread has counted erections.

Some of us have said that we have seen riders on naked bike rides with erections.

Some other people on this thread think that this is impossible or exaggeration or pearl-clutching or man-hating or something. It's not.

As I have said, I am very used to naturist beaches and clubs. My parents were naturists, although it's not something I've done with my own, now adult, children. I've seen hundreds of naked bodies as a child and a teenager. Never saw anything inappropriate.

I have no hang ups about the human body. I have no objection to public nudity on beaches, in communal changing rooms etc. I don't equate being nude with being an exhibitionist or a pervert.

I didn't know the naked bike ride was happening when we came across it. We were in London with family, walking down the Mall, about to take a photo in front of Buckingham Palace and were ushered to one side by the first cyclists. All very good natured and celebratory.

So I was very surprised to see several men with erections. I didn't need good eyesight or to search them out. They were... very evident.

🤣 seems uncomfortable

It’s got nothing to do with being obtuse - most people I know live in the real world and not the weird Mumsnet world where so many people are so incredibly uptight about everything.

Why are you so fixated on the men? Plenty of women attend these things and I also highly doubt there’s erections wherever you look. It’s perfectly possible for a man to be both naked and not erect.

I think most people would either not be bothered or would roll their eyes and laugh/call them a name

And it's more the MN type who would shriek about the children (I've been surprised how anti-petition this thread has been)

There's a big difference between being alone in an enclosed space with a man and being out in public with plenty of people around and seeing a naked person go past. One clearly has the potential for danger whereas the other is clearly not dangerous, even if it might be upsetting to see.

Whilst I wouldn't be organising a school trip to view said bike ride, I don't think it is a danger to children and needs to be cancelled. Petitioning to stop it is silly. If you are concerned about your kids seeing it, then simply avoid it in the same way you would avoid a rowdy football pub on game day, or a rave, or asda at 5pm on Christmas Eve. Hardly rocket science.

Some posters who have seen the event in person say they have noticed riders with erections (plural but not , er, quantified).
So some men obviously do find it quite stimulating.

This is why I'm banned from Halfords

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I don't think I will see Halfrods in quite the same way again.

Argh! Unfortunate typo. (But I'm definitely leaving it there)

ChatGPT summarised this thread as being an example of people discussing "male erections" ....

Unlike some cyclists I didn't have the balls to ask if there were any standout posts.