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***

[BookOfBritishBirds]

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.

If you've got it flaunt it! I wish I had when I had something worth flaunting 😆

I always think the intent argument is a little silly.

How is it that a naked man exposing his flaccid penis to a child while walking through the woods is harmful if he intends to cause distress, but not harmful if he doesn't intend it?

How does a person's inner intent - which no one else can even know! - alter the impact of an action? It feels like magical thinking to me.

Either being unexpectedly confronted by a strange, naked man in the woods is distressing, or it isn't. What might or might not be going on in the man's head really isn't relevant to the person being exposed to his penis.

Are they really much different to the thong leotards of the 90s! 😬

With some regret, I would.

You were wrong on two important counts, @SurelyNotShirley. UK law does not enforce clothing in public. You may walk around naked if no intent to cause alarm, distress, or harassment, and if not sexual.

And, as others have said, nobody has a right not to be offended. There are very strong reasons for this.

I'm about to sound about 100, but I think people wear far too little these days, or else things are far too tight, and people also look scruffier than ever.

I think it depends WHEN you grew up. When I was an older child and an early teen, it was the era of Dynasty and all the men were beautifully clean-shaven. The facial hair of the Seventies was out, and we never, ever dreamed it would return with such a vengeance and last so long....or that it would have so many grey, brown, and dark patches, not to mention the dried egg or drips of gravy in it...lovely!

Then, I came of age and was a young woman in the Nineties, and that was a pretty covered-up era.

My nieces wear dresses that look like tiny silk babydoll nighties, and I'm told this is normal these days!

UK does not enforce clothing in public? Thought we had public decency laws - although I suppose those have gone, along with the general on-the-floor standards these days. Colour me shocked.

Oh, DON'T start me off! The women's costumes in the European Figure Skating championships recently were disgusting. Some of the women were skating with their entire bums naked. I could practically see what they had for lunch, and if they hadn't wiped properly, you'd have seen it. Others had no trouble keeping covered. It's not supposed to be allowed, but the costume rules aren't enforced. Probably because the male head honchos in the sport are all too busy enjoying it. 😡

@Itstimeforachangeagain The sight of that quite literally comes into my memory every time I see these women flaunting their buttocks to the world. It bemuses me how they have been conned into thinking bums are actually attractive.

Re. the bolded part of the quote, you HAVE to watch this:

Argh, it won't play. But look up Amy Schumer "Milk milk Lemonade." It's a hilarious song about exactly what you've said in the bolded!

Oh, wait - it seems to work if you click on that number 1 on the bottom right of the black box. Really worth a watch!

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Clothing is already tight and tiny. What do you do when there's no material left and no body part is private anymore? Are we all going to go around without clothes?

At least with so many people looking awful, it's much easier to stand out by being elegant! Nowadays, standards have slipped so much that jeans and a T-shirt that's tucked-in counts as elegant daywear! 🤭The world has been taken over by tracksuits and leggings and sports team gear, thanks to the pandemic.

No, we have indecent exposure laws. The exposure itself is not considered indecent. If you go outside naked because of, say, a mental problem or an emergency, you're breaking no laws. If you do it as an unwanted sexual display, you are. If you're doing it to upset someone, you're breaking a different law (harassment, most likely).

The law starts from the obvious principle that everyone is naked by default, although it's considered polite to wear clothes in public.

We're talking about both genders, and we're free to discuss whatever we like. We're all talking generally - it's not like we're criticising an actual person who might see it.

I don't think posters should be trying to shut down conversations.

So interesting and so clearly explained, @GarlicFound. Are you a lawyer?

Thank you, @FloofBunny. No, and I've no idea why I know this!

I couldn't care less what people wear and am not offended by anything they might wear, but I do agree with this. People who dress like this want to be looked at, of course they do, and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous, and they are going to attract judgement whether they like it or not.

Brilliant

I don't want to see what people have for breakfast man or woman and if they makes me a prude then prude away

Well luckily for you @BookOfBritishBirds yourself is the only person you’re entertaining on this thread.

The OP is talking about the gym, so in fairness it was dominated by tracksuits and leggings before covid.
Most fashionable young women I see are not wearing tight and tiny clothes for everyday. More wide legged loose jeans and big tops. Though perhaps the cropped tops will appear with the summer.
My point, there isn't a trend towards more and more revealing items worn by the general population. How much flesh is revealed and which body parts are acceptable to reveal tends to change with fashion.

To be honest, I don’t think a bloke showing off his flaccid penis would actually oppress women.

Although, to be fair, it wouldn’t impress many either, I don’t suppose. 🤷‍♀️

Theres nothing really noteworthy about a limp dick.

The MN horror of the human body is something else.

Scrunch bum leggings are not my preferred fashion but neither are long floral dresses. I don't get being outraged by other people wearing clothes they like, even if I don't like them.

And getting outraged by people wearing exercise gear in order to exercise is just absurd.

Speak for yourself.

Brilliant! 🤩 That made me laugh.

Please present your data which shows that straight women enjoy looking at photographs of dicks, and enjoy receiving photographs of dicks.

Ewwwww...I couldn't think of anything worse.

God, isn't it tedious dragging people - especially women - down because of what they opt to wear.