Sick of the Naked Bike Ride

[HardyEM]

Hello I'm posting about the York- World Naked Bike Ride ob 29th June 2023 @ 4.15pm. This year I've decided enough is enough and as a York mum I'm going to go along and tell them so (North Yorkshire police have also been informed).

Having your cock and balls (overwhelming majority of naked participants are men) out in public isn't OK on any other day of the week - even if they are virtuous, net zero, climate saving ones.

No one really believes it's OK for adults to parade around naked in front of families and children in public without their consent and why should we have to stay at home? So this year I'll be there to collect evidence and respectfully handing out some pants.

'The Emperor's New Clothes'

Dear God it is so NOT sexual.

Look it up if you want to know - put that into google and you'll get whose definition.

And yes, for some it will be sexual. Don't kid yourself.

Look it up if you want to know - put that into google and you'll get whose definition.

Yep got google.😄 But digging out a definition of a word is all by the by. I've explained what I meant.
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And yes, for some it will be sexual. Don't kid yourself.*

'Some' will find the mannequins in Debenhams sexual. Not kidding anybody.
My experience of seeing the NBR informs my opinion.

It's only by the by if it doesn't suit your argument. Otherwise, absurd is a perfect description of this inappropriate and unreasonable event.

Yeah, I'm sure some will find mannequins sexual - and if they wandered naked into the store to gawp at them while other customers were trying to go about their business they'd be escorted off the premises and into police custody, even if they claimed they were only there to protest about important global things sarge.

felt a bit shocked and disgusted for two seconds and then thought - actually - the human body is not inherently sexual

But the adult human body is inherently sexual, it’s full of markers of sexual maturity. We all know this. We can all see this.

Children’s bodies are not sexual as they have not developed these sexual markers. But adult bodies have and they are.

Origins of the event

World Naked Bike Ride - Wikipedia

It's been going for over 2 decades, is probably less intrusive than a road-closed running event (as they last longer) and just as easy to avoid.

It's only by the by if it doesn't suit your argument. Otherwise, absurd is a perfect description of this inappropriate and unreasonable event.

Okay. I won't say I like 'absurd'. I will say I like
oddities. Does that do the trick? Let's get our semantics in order. 🤦‍♀️
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Yeah, I'm sure some will find mannequins sexual - and if they wandered naked into the store to gawp at them while other customers were trying to go about their business they'd be escorted off the premises and into police custody, even if they claimed they were only there to protest about important global things sarge.*

But I didn't see anyone 'wandering ' - they were on a advertised route. And they only 'groped' the handlebars.
Your imagination is running away with you.

@SirChenjins

Yes, and except at Sparta, the only women present were whores.

But the adult human body is inherently sexual,

Well each to their own but looking at that lot go past - nope, nothing sexual.

Surely, practically that's rather...... Uncomfortable?

Oddities? No, that doesn't do the trick. Nudity in public places that means other people feel uncomfortable or whatever is unreasonable and inappropriate as per the definition of absurd - regardless of what anyone taking part claims to be protesting about.

Where's the groping coming from?

Oddities? No, that doesn't do it for me. Forcing unwanted nudity onto people in public places is unreasonable and inappropriate as per the definition of absurd.

Excellent 👍🏻 I'd dispute your use of the word " forcing". but hey.

Where's the groping coming from?

Naked people 'groping' mannequins would rightly be escorted away. Cycling past is not the same as groping obviously. The sexual thing.

Who's groping mannequins - where are you getting that from?

Does it matter? I most particularly don’t want to see naked men it public.

Men are massively and overwhelmingly more likely to be sexual predators and fetishists than women. That’s just statistics.

In areas where people regularly hang out naked- naturist camps and European saunas, Icelandic showers- I find it uncomfortable but not alarming.

And while a group cycling past may offer only a passing flash of nudity, there’s a point where they gather and saddle up where it’s much less discreet.

It may have been a laudable protest initially. Some may still be there for political reasons.

Anyone who thinks the rest of them aren’t flashers and fetishistic attention seekers is naive.

It’s purpose is to make people look.

*Anyone who thinks the rest of them aren’t flashers and fetishistic attention seekers is naive.

It’s purpose is to make people look*

Exactly this. Don't imagine for a second that the thrill of being looked at naked by adults and children isn't part of the attraction for some taking part.

List of British 2024 events - for those who wish to join in as well as those who wish to avoid.

List of rides - World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) - Wiki information site

The routes (including mustering points) are publicised - but with the decline of local press, you might need to google

You are misinterpreting here. You don’t have to be sexually aroused to accept that adult bodies are sexual entities, because they contain all the markers of sexual maturity. Those markers signal sexual maturity to other humans. It’s how we know to breed with other adults rather than children. This is in common with other animal species.

If you disagree, what exactly is it that you think distinguishes an adult body from a pre-pubescent child’s?

sorry @SirChenjins 'gawping ' not groping.
my bad.

But point stands. Not the same as wandering into Debenhams naked and gawping, off the cuff.

*You are misinterpreting here. You don’t have to be sexually aroused to accept that adult bodies are sexual entities, because they contain all the markers of sexual maturity. Those markers signal sexual maturity to other humans. It’s how we know to breed with other adults rather than children. This is in common with other animal species.

If you disagree, what exactly is it that you think distinguishes an adult body from a pre-pubescent child’s?*

oh please. Of course I don't disagree with the science.

But walking past - the lived experience of it, the opposite of sexual.

@sunglassesonthetable If nudity is just nudity then why can't naked men just not wander into Debenhams for an innocent gawp at the bras? It's all very innocent after all - apparently.

Or it is only if it's part of an organised event where they take advantage of the opportunity to get their kicks in public is it OK? One lone cock - not OK. Many - absolutely fine. After all, everyone checks their local news sites and SM before venturing into town - don't they? If they don't and they stumble across flashers and fetishists then it's completely their fault. Yeah, bollocks (literally) to that.

What the actual fuck is this? I live in Yorkshire and never knew about this. Obviously have been living under a stone all this time.Thanks for giving the heads up so I can NOT head in that direction with my children. Jesus. Why would you?

Again you are misinterpreting,( doubtless deliberately to fit your narrative), sexual to mean sexually aroused.

I was responding to a poster who said that there is nothing inherently sexual about human bodies. Which is wrong - there clearly is. Human bodies are sexually mature bodies designed for sexual reproduction and we can all instantly see this when we see a naked adult. Men's genitals do not look like pre-pubescent boy's genitals.

You don't have be aroused to recognise that a naked human body is a sexual body, in a way a child's is not.

Lived experience, as you put it, is to instantly see the naked human body as a sexually mature body, in the way you don't when you see a child.

Bizarrely, we now live in the fucked up state where we would not consider it ok for a bunch of pre-pubescent children to parade naked, because some perverts would see their bodies as sexual, but we are all meant to pretend that there is nothing at all sexual about a naked adult body at all.

York is a big city. The cycle route is always car-free and it's easy to avoid it. It doesn't last ALL DAY.

It's just pathetic to say 'I MUST go to York city centre on the day of naked cycling and because I am offended by it they all have to change their behaviour'.

And let's stop saying it's all men. Half of them are women.

@sunglassesonthetableIf nudity is just nudity then why can't naked men just not wander into Debenhams for an innocent gawp at the bras? It's all very innocent after all - apparently.

@SirChenjins They can. Though why men would want to be naked to gawp at bras is unclear. Why bras/ Why naked? Why not just log into Pornhub at home?

There is no law against being naked in public.
It's only an offence if someone complains about you. OR if the shop owner feels it's offensive and ask you to dress. A shop is private property,. unlike the highway.