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No sir (or madam) I don’t want intimate knowledge of your nether regions through the medium of flesh coloured scrunchbum pants and inappropriate swimwear that clings to your flaccid member ***title edited by MNHQ to correct a typo***

198 replies

BookOfBritishBirds · 08/03/2026 12:21

Totally get that in theory everyone has a right to wear what they wish but even so…I theory I have a right to not have to walk around looking at the floor

Curses. Nether. Not meter.

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BookOfBritishBirds · 08/03/2026 12:56

SerendipityCat · 08/03/2026 12:53

Aha, got you now. I was picturing all kinds of shenanigans down at the local Methodist's - the reality is a lot less interesting. Sorry, op.

Well that’s ok because I’m not moaning about it for anyone else’s entertainment but my own.

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Astrabees · 08/03/2026 12:56

Sure, you can wear what you like, if it is within the establishment rules. I do, however wonder why the woman wearing the tiny, totally arse revealing bikini with a top that barely covered her nipples chose to dress in it at the local private gym pool. She showered, walked round the pool once, sat in the jacuzzi for 3 minutes and left. Everyone else was in the sort of costume you wear for serious swimming.

Fairyliz · 08/03/2026 13:00

I often wonder if posters on MN are constantly cover in bruises and have to visit A & E for broken bones. Surely that’s what happens if you walk around never looking at the floor or where you are going. Don’t you walk into bollards or fall down steps?

ButterflySky · 08/03/2026 13:11

I've only seen somebody wearing these once. Flesh coloured cycling short type ones. Right up the bum, Left nothing to the imagination!

The woman was already a lot taller than me, then she had platform trainers on too & I was stood in a queue with my daughter, behind this woman, so I had her arse pretty much right in my eyeline. I spent the whole time standing sideways, which I imagine looked odd but it was more comfortable for me!

I also once saw a woman wearing a tiny, loose crop top that showed off the bottom of her boobs. I did a double take & I thought 'I've never seen anybody in the real world (who wasn't a Kardashian or an influencer!) wearing one of those' & 'Surely they can barely move as they risk showing their whole boobs to the world!'

RonObvious · 08/03/2026 13:16

You’d prefer to see a tumescent member?

Ohfuckrucksack · 08/03/2026 13:19

Welcome to the daily 'shocked and appalled at someone else's choices' thread.

If someone was forcing you to wear these clothing options, I would be absolute on your side.

But they're not.

ilovesooty · 08/03/2026 13:19

The OP seems rather invested in other people's bodies.

DameOfThrones · 08/03/2026 13:20

Ohfuckrucksack · 08/03/2026 13:19

Welcome to the daily 'shocked and appalled at someone else's choices' thread.

If someone was forcing you to wear these clothing options, I would be absolute on your side.

But they're not.

I blame the Classics topic.

BookOfBritishBirds · 08/03/2026 13:21

RonObvious · 08/03/2026 13:16

You’d prefer to see a tumescent member?

Does it really have to be either / or?

Thats possibly the most depressing offer I’ve had in a long while.

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hypnovic · 08/03/2026 13:25

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RonObvious · 08/03/2026 13:27

BookOfBritishBirds · 08/03/2026 13:21

Does it really have to be either / or?

Thats possibly the most depressing offer I’ve had in a long while.

Not an offer, just curious about why you were so specific about them being flaccid.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/03/2026 13:28

ButterflySky · 08/03/2026 13:11

I've only seen somebody wearing these once. Flesh coloured cycling short type ones. Right up the bum, Left nothing to the imagination!

The woman was already a lot taller than me, then she had platform trainers on too & I was stood in a queue with my daughter, behind this woman, so I had her arse pretty much right in my eyeline. I spent the whole time standing sideways, which I imagine looked odd but it was more comfortable for me!

I also once saw a woman wearing a tiny, loose crop top that showed off the bottom of her boobs. I did a double take & I thought 'I've never seen anybody in the real world (who wasn't a Kardashian or an influencer!) wearing one of those' & 'Surely they can barely move as they risk showing their whole boobs to the world!'

My friend’s daughter had on a boob tube that looked like that but showed the middle part too I think, on her photos on Instagram. I was a bit wtf?

steff13 · 08/03/2026 13:29

BlueEyedBogWitch · 08/03/2026 12:24

Why do people wear clothes that reveal and enhance body parts if they don’t want people to look at them?

Who said they didn't want people looking at them? OP doesn't want to look at them, so she can look away.

ChaToilLeam · 08/03/2026 13:32

Hate scrunch bum leggings and shorts and swimwear that show your arse cheeks. Put it away, folks.

BlueJuniper94 · 08/03/2026 13:36

Holymolyrigmorole · 08/03/2026 12:23

You don’t need to look at the floor or their crotches/arses. How about pointing your gaze to their faces?

Yes maintain intimidating eye contact at all times with them

fatphalange · 08/03/2026 13:37

Your title makes it sounds like they asked you permission or something :/
The scrunch bum leggings always remind me of a scrotum but I’d never wear a pair myself so it doesn’t bother me

BlueJuniper94 · 08/03/2026 13:38

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Imagine being so overwhelmed by hormones you have to expose yourself like a baboon in heat

BookOfBritishBirds · 08/03/2026 13:39

RonObvious · 08/03/2026 13:27

Not an offer, just curious about why you were so specific about them being flaccid.

Many moons ago, pre the majority of internet porn, publishers tried to launch a female top shelf mag. I think it was called ‘For Women’ . Obscenity laws being what they were the bronzed and muscly male models who graced their pages were all in relaxed mode. Not a swelling in sight. This brought home to me how much more miserable male pudenda is when it is not erect. The contrast between these demigods and their miserable flappy equipment was too much to bear.

The magazine folded pretty quickly and I came to the conclusion that fundamentally I was only keen on seeing a live action penis in the context of a happy (and this is key) consensual relationship.

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shuggles · 08/03/2026 13:40

The bemusing thing is that threads like this exist, and yet, the world is still convinced that it's men who scrutinise women's fashion choices.

5128gap · 08/03/2026 13:40

Social norms around which areas of our bodies we should show or conceal constantly change and evolve. This is no doubt how the Victorians felt when women showed the outline of their legs in divided skirts to ride bikes, and how they reacted to the hint of midriff exposed by the first bikini.
Typically people chunter about it for a bit, then the novelty wears off and it becomes everyday, or fashions change and another part of the body becomes the focus of outrage.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/03/2026 13:42

On the London Underground the other day there was a young woman wearing flesh-coloured, skin tight, scrunch-bum tights or else very thin leggings - with a waist length top.

There are times when I really do think ‘Wear whatever you like!’ has gone too far.

shuggles · 08/03/2026 13:42

@BookOfBritishBirds tried to launch a female top shelf mag. I think it was called ‘For Women’ . Obscenity laws being what they were the bronzed and muscly male models who graced their pages were all in relaxed mode.

Every time that's been attempted, it has turned out the people buying and looking at the magazines were gay men, not women.

I think anyone who lives on planet earth would know that a straight woman would never buy a magazine to look at dicks.

BlueJuniper94 · 08/03/2026 13:42

shuggles · 08/03/2026 13:40

The bemusing thing is that threads like this exist, and yet, the world is still convinced that it's men who scrutinise women's fashion choices.

No, just Western third and fourth wave feminists

pinksheetss · 08/03/2026 13:44

I don’t think what other people are wearing should have any offence to people in the slightest. Look, or look away.

On International Women’s Day of all days to come on and berate women for wearing something they either feel comfortable in or feel they look good in is terrible.

Get over it, move on.

Reepycreepy · 08/03/2026 13:45

100% agree.

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