Where I went to college, only naked people of either sex could enter the pool, obviously on alternate days. One had to shower entering and leaving the pool. Easier to keep the pool clean that way.

Just saying, AI therapy is a thing. No one else needs to know. You're not going to tell me you didn't see worse in a locker room full of adolescent Hockey players. You've clearly took the other tine of the fork in the road where the right one led to a healthy attitude towards people. It's never too late to backtrack and find inner peace.

I hope you aren't planning to be one of those fathers of girls that attempts to keep them for himself. And I DON'T mean in a pedo sense, but a conservative, they never need to experience adult things, ever, sense. I'm pretty sure your girls have (or will) seen worse on the Internet and they handle it better than boys do. I don't doubt they wouldn't go out of their way to see strangers naked, but I am sure they would handle it better than you would. In my city women (men too maybe) can go out and about fully nude. None ever will, but the law is clear. You can. As long as your intent isn't to arouse, have at it. Being that that is a difficult thing to prove on an individual basis, a single woman out sunning herself would be quickly arrested and subjected to a mental evaluation. One thousand naked cyclists could NEVER be construed as them trying to arouse anything except joie de vive, so they get a pass. I live in the city that invented naked bike rides and I am nothing if not a cyclist par excellence, in passion if not in abilities. I've never seen a naked cyclist. Ever. I'm ok with that. Being married means I can see a naked woman pretty much any day of the week. And being an active gym member means I see more naked men than I've ever seen naked women and I'm still alive to talk about it.

Compared to what? Movie and TV shows glorifying war and violence? First person shooter video games? Taunting people with insults while anonymously online?

You sound like the folks who demonized the current and former US servicemembers who attended a (clothed) dragshow in Colorado springs with their families (who were all having fun), and when a mass shooter entered and started killing many, charged the shooter and disarmed him. Yet many condemned them for being there in the first place.

I'd recommend stepping back and getting some perspective on life.

Arbitrarily labeling something as wrong or "filthy", without examination, defies logic. Rock and roll was labeled like that in the beginning, by "moral leaders" who demeaned it in hateful terms as music for blacks, and the work of satan. From wiki on James Watt, secretary of the interior under Reagan:
Yeah.

Not true everywhere. In Portland, public nudity is legal. For both city and state. Public obscenity is illegal, but not simply going about without clothes.

OK, but this isn't one such example where it is unavoidable. So providing an example of it being unavoidable is meaningless.

It's been interesting to read all the responses which boil down to 'you are wrong and it is unreasonable to expect that your daughters shouldnt have to see a ton of naked people in public'.
Just a straight dismissal of the posyer's concerns.

My girls are well aware of anatomy- human and non-human- but I would be annoyed if we were touristing up historical sites and were met by a hundred or more naked people on bikes. And that's them at 18 and 14 now.yeah, it would be annoying because what else would it possibly be? We obviously wouldn't be like 'yeah! Cool!'.
If they were 11 and 7, I would be annoyed enough to mention it as a complaint when recapping the trip to family.


Your response was funny enough to motivate me to respond because it claims that since the poster's daughters will someday see worse on the internet, it is unreasonable for him to take issue now.
And it also passively accuses the poster of being someone who thinks he can forever keep his kids from seeing nudity...just because he wouldn't want them to have to see hundreds of naked people in public now.

That all is so absurd it is difficult to even take it as a serious comment.

Google says both intent and specific location are criteria for legal nudity in Oregon.

The subject of nude bike parades, do not happen at random times in random places. They are scheduled and known way in advance, and spectators know what to expect, and can be easily avoided by those who wish to. Like NRA annual meetings and conventions (I'm a life member in protest).

Exactly.

I'm simply posting a counter argument because some of the early counter arguments in this thread were dismissed.

And what I'm saying is a flat specific example of how some people just flat out don't want to see this. And situationally - the location of this event is going to bring the two worlds together.

But its common to attack the messenger vs discussing the message. Attempting to expand the argument into realms unknown - like parenting style or something similar - just to somehow dismiss the message.

And for what its worth - his entire speculative post was completely wrong.

Yep. It was all over the news pre-event. And it’s not like the city passed an ordinance requiring parents to force children to watch for 10 min. as a couple thousand people slowly rolled by.

Want to “sanitize” your living environment? Move to a cabin to the forest.

Why are participants almost all male and to put it delicately, obviously not athletic.

Are these events hook ups ?

I think we did that sometimes, too, only we had Log Cabin. My mom was the sort of person who would rarely try anything different once she found something she liked. I remember begging her to buy a Hamburger Helper flavor other than Beef Stroganoff.

And so if it is, so what? It's nice to have a common interest.

The scenario I commented on was out of town visitors who are there to see historical sites. Expecting tourists to know about when a nude bike parade will slowly roll past popular historic landmarks is unreasonable.
But yeah, I agree that in general it is relatively easy to avoid a nude bike parade. The odds are highly in everyone's favor that they wont happen to be on the route during a given moment in time.

All the athletic people are at the local park participating in a nude rope climb.

I wouldnt think twice if I heard some people hooked up afterwards. I wouldnt think twice if it was a very small % who hooked up afterwards.
I give 0 damn either way. Adults get to make adult decisions.

This thread has gotten way off track. Time to end it.