Is this what walking the dog means now?

[SophoclesTheFox]

I was out yesterday with some friends and we were standing outside the venue we’d been to, on the Mall, so central London at about 3pm.

A group of about 30 or so men, accompanied by a couple of police officers walked by, and I was extremely taken aback to realise that it was some sort of pup fetish walk. In masks, with tails, on leads. Some of them were being walked “roughly” for want of a better word - let’s just say I would never yank my dog’s lead like that.

I was really uncomfortable, knowing what I know about this particular fetish. Is this now OK, to literally parade your fetish down the high street in broad daylight? Does the fact that no one was naked make it ok? What is the point of the march ? Because I can only see it as an attempt to normalise sexual behaviour in public places, and I’m not ok with that.

My friends thought it was kind of harmless fun, and that I’m a joyless old prude. I’m actually starting to get really concerned about the pressure for people to be welcoming of any old sexual behaviour in any context. Cui bono- who benefits when we break down the barriers of public and private behaviour? (Or in this case, cui bonio I suppose).

Thoughts?

Why were the police going with them? To protect the dog people or what?

Oh my god OP, there can't have been innocently wearing pup play masks if being roughly handled by police. All in broad daylight? I always thought that a fetish was and should be private, that they were performed in secret, it being part of the thrill.

I don't understand what is happening.

Were the police actual police? The police don't have enough resources to investigate burglaries so why on earth would they be protecting(?) a bunch of weirdos? No, it is absolutely not acceptable for fetishes to be paraded in public.

Where does it say the police were handling them? The OP just says the poloce were with them.

The police were PCSOs I think, and they were just walking ahead of and behind the group. Not handling them, the group were doing that to each other.

I doubt most of the public realise that this is a sexual fetish, tbh, and see it as just some lads larking about. People get dressed up in animal outfits for charity events and no-one bats an eye; I confess I'm looking at them all suspiciously now.

Yes, my reading of the OP was that the "pups'" were being led on leads by their "owners" and it was the latter who were yanking on the leads vigorously.

I wonder what the purported reason for the march was? Political rights for pups? (Hard to see what they lack.) Raising awareness? If so why and to what end?

If anyone has the time and inclination, the police presence seems to indicate a proper application for the march will have been submitted, so it would be possible to do an FOI.

I'm like many others on this thread - I suspect whatever flannel an FOI would reveal, the true reason is either they get off on parading their fetish in front of a puzzled, slightly disgusted and non-consenting audience, or it's "operation thin end of the wedge" (or both).

I wouldn’t know where to start to find out what it was about, to be honest. I wish I’d paid more attention to the official presence, and that I’d had the guts to just ask them what was going on there and then!

I agree with you op. I don’t care if someone has a fetish but I don’t want to be part of it. By taking it down a busy street they are forcing you to be part of their fetish.

The key thing is whether the attire they were wearing in public was revealing or sexual in such a way that children should not see it. Adult men dressing in animal outfits is plain weird in my book but they aren't harming anyone? whatever fetishes are connected to said outfits take place in private. Because you know that such "play outfits" are linked to certain practices doesn't make them indecent in public.

I am a joyless prude. My ex husband was into all this. It destroyed all we had.

That’s not on. My kids wound ask what that’s about What do I tell them. What next walking g around in public with a dildo up your arse.

We need to back track. Not to Victorian age but at least some standards.
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Exactly - I don’t want to be part of their fetish, and presumably part of that is humiliation, which I, and everyone else doing their shopping and walking through St James Park of a Saturday afternoon, are supposed to provide.

Fuck. That.

None of my friends knew what a furry is. They thought I made it up.

stuck, being out in public is clearly part of the fetish, so it’s crossing that line away from being private, don’t you think? They clearly want to involve passers by or they would be at home.

I had to google to convince my DH that this was "a thing". It seems that you stumbled upon Fetish Week .

Could well have been bitoffun.

I also found this site : www.puppypride.social/events which runs similar events, and actually has photos taken in my local park, too. Looks very similar to what I saw, though I can’t see the specific event without registering, which I’m OBVS not going to do.

So this is a thing.

Urgh. I don't want to see it when I'm out buying my cardigans, thanks. Really though, I don't.

It’s everywhere now.

always I think that is a bit of a stretch.

A quick look at Twitter says that yesterday was the Puppy Pride Walk.

CONTENT WARNING:
In searching Twitter for what was happening yesterday, the first thing that came up was close up video footage of a man urinating into another man’s anus. Through a sort of butt plug funnel. The ‘pup’ described as a pissoir and trussed up in latex. Urinating penis clearly visible.

How ON EARTH is this publicly visible on Twitter when fully clothed women are being banned for debating sex v gender ?

Jesus. I know not to look there then, thanks.

OMG, I saw this last month - 15th June to be precise.
They were walking around trafalger square and I was in a black cab. The driver was as shocked as I was, and neither of us had seen anything like it before in daylight hours.

Hideous that this seems to be a monthly event

Free the dick, innit.

From all that oppression.

The name Puppy pride suggests that they want the P to be covered by the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup too.

You only need to look at the pictures of recent Pride events to see that it is now about people forcing their fetishes on unwilling participants with cries of kink shaming to anyone who objects.

Pride is no longer about celebrating the rights of people not to be persecuted for their sexual orientation. Being gay has fuck all to do with fetishistic sexual behaviour which should be kept private and away from children who do not need to see it.

Men dressed as dogs. Men dressed as toddlers in nappies. Men dressed in rubber wanking at work. Men with AGP getting off on forcing women to validate their special feelz.
Can you see the common denominator here?