What do whips, spandex and dog masks have to do with Pride?

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They're kinks/fetishes right? Not related to sexual orientation. Also why are they anything to be 'proud' of? Your closest friends would probably find it pretty odd (and stomach turning!) if you told them your OH likes to wear your undies, or what gets you off is him licking your feet... Why is proclaiming what should be personal and private turn-ons to the general public any better? Why should they be glad for you in any way for being so open about it?

I suppose it’s somewhat satisfying to see people like @AidaPadmit what they are doing really is about showing sexual preferences and kinks to kids, but it’s disturbing nonetheless. Really really disturbing.

"My kids are with me and my wife at many prides, kink is involved, it's never a problem. Just like topic of sex is never a problem in our house, neither is the topic of kink sex. If they are old enough to ask, they are old enough to get an answer, as detailed as they are willing to keep asking."

This is literally grooming. Yuck.

He/she is f*ed up

I started going to pride in the 80s when it was still a protest march. Most gays want to be accepted as the same as straights which is why gay marriage is so popular and therefore there’s nothing to march for. But like Stonewall, pride doesn’t want the party to stop so instead it flies the flag for any social outsider with a histrionic personality disorder

Brilliant

Sorry what.

You think kids should be taught about sex involving whips and chains?

If the children mention this to a teacher at school they will report to social services as potential child abuse.

Wow this thread is disturbing.

I'm happily quite kinky (so no not at all judgemental of what consenting people do in private) but we go to all the lengths for our kids not to know this even though it means we don't do some of the things we'd like to.

There is no way I want kids to see that (or the men in nappies, or the dog leads etc...)

Kinky couples can marry, kinky couples can do what they like ... It's not like the stigma there was (still can be) around gay relationships. We don't need to be "proud" as it's not an issue. It's not a public matter.m...

Its hijacking what pride week was. It's not right on all the levels.

But by God why on earth would you intentionally want kids to see all this is mind boggling.

Well fuck me up the arse and put a dog collar on me and take me to pride! WTF? Check out any child abuse charity any sexual activity around children is abuse. Please listen to me. Behaving in a sexualised way in front of children is abuse. If you are doing this you are a child abuser. @AidaP

That will get me blocked and I do not care. Having had adults parade their sexual proclivities around me I am telling you right now it is abuse.

What i don't understand is how trans came to be seen as a sexuality.

Sexuality is about who you fancy. No?

It does seem to be aot about the T...

It's creepy as fuck and should be banned.

Who the fuck needs to know you can only get off by strapping yourself in pvc and wearing a dog mask? If that’s how you get off then do it at home. You have no business frotting yourself in public and if you do then please know the majority of the uk are laughing at you and classing you as a danger to yourself let alone children. We all know you look like uncooked bread dough and have marvel figurines stuck in the crevices nobody will ever find.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the original point of gay pride (as was) to be seen as equal to heterosexual people/relationships?

I'm genuinely worried that there will be arguments against same sex marriage by reform-style bad actors, based on people (gay, bi or straight) showing off their kinks in public.

The great thing about this thread is that the next time Aida's wanging on about TiMs just wanting to live his life without judgment we'll know exactly why.

And he wonders why women don't want him and his ilk anywhere near female toilets or changing rooms.

@JazzyJelly yes! At the point of the stonewall riots it wasn’t about same sex marriage but it was about treating people as the same as everyone else. The young men and women involved just wanted to be included and seen. Same sex marriage is enshrined in law as it should be. They fought to be included in society. Bad faith actors will need to up their game to take that away from homosexual people.

I really hope the illuminating posts on this thread are not deleted. They're highly disturbing, even distressing, but by feck, Aidan has said all the things out loud.

You sound like Negan!

Agree. Parading sexual kink in front of children is grooming. Teaching them your preferences before they learn theirs. All under the guise of empowerment. Take a fought for word, fought for rights and turn it into abuse. Mainly men. Always men. Forever the men.

What an load of bullshit. Embarrassing

I really hope I'm being pessimistic. I'd very much like to think that the fight for homosexual equality in the UK is, at least in law, won.

@EveInEden if you mean Negan off of walking dead then all I can say is I have a rounders bat because I am English. Honestly I cannot read idiots talking about children in the way they have been earlier without swinging said rounders bat. Children have no place in sexual kink, it is not empowering for them, it is abusive. Adults involving children in anything sexual, even just dressing up around them is abuse. Lang clegg would invoke safeguarding and lang clegg would be right.

Just catching up.

Certain posts on this thread have every red flag in the country gathering in one spot tonight.

I'm actually horrified by some posts.

@JazzyJelly me too love x

I am half tempted to set tgis up as an AIBU thread but the kink person is only here to piss the feminists off on this thread. I am bloody incandescent about what has been said here.