Only if he is kicking sand on me or screaming in my ear.
So your post questioning a chap’s concern over being wrongly perceived as a paedophile, actually implies he does have sinister intentions? Some Americans really don’t recognise irony.
I don’t think she/he was implying that I had sinister intentions to harm children. I believe the implication was that I was going to do harm to my kids by being a prude because of my view of nudity, ergo make my kids ashamed of their bodies. My post was pretty clear that I have no problems with naked kids, just not other strangers naked kids around me in a public place if they get to close to me and that’s only because of the climate surrounding the pedophilia hysteria that’s goes on in the west. If it was a different climate I wouldn’t be concerned at all. But it isn’t, and just being suspect or accused of it is enough to cause some serious problems in a man’s life.
There’s still airlines out there that have a policy of asking men to move seats if they are sitting next to minors traveling alone that they are not related to. Because you know, men love to molest clothed kids on airplanes. /s
I think that’s an admirably gracious and forgiving reading of her comments; good on you.
It would definitely bother me. Not because of the nudity directly, but because it implies a lack of parental oversight, which means that kid will almost certainly be running around screaming with no regard for anybody else (the default behavior for unsupervised children).
As for why, it’s just experience. The vast majority of times I’ve seen kids underclothed (naked at the beach, shirtless at the store or wherever on a hot day, etc.) it’s been with parents that didn’t or couldn’t control their kids.
This is my thought, too.
I wouldn’t be bothered by the nudity. I’d make a point to be far away because I would be concerned he’d be out of control.
In the US, please. I hate that expression “in the west” because it can mean anything from “the US” to “the US plus UK” to “US plus EU” to “Americas, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea”.
Let’s try to be precise in our hysterics.
This may be a shock to you, but I don’t care in the slightest as to which expressions you hate. I’m not in the u.s. either.
Not to mention that “west” is purely relative on a planet that rotates about a North-South axis.
I’m from Europe. In my country naked children - absolutely normal. No problem…
Also it’s purely relative in time as well. The “west” can mean like the 1600’s to the 1900’s what with the Cowboys and Indians. And I’ve never seen any historical record of the Cowboys and Indians letting their children run naked on the beach.
Not only would it not disturb me, I’d laugh my head off. For some deep-seated reason I’ve always found it hilarious for naked kids to do usual things; if they’re old enough to know they should have clothes on their mischievous grins make it even funnier. I once had a cleaning client’s naked three year old boy let me in their house after I knocked and he thought he was so clever to be naked *and *opening the door like a grown up. (Mom worked from home and was on a conference call thinking he was clothed and napping on the couch in the front room.) This turned into front porch naked toddler wrangling, which is less fun when you have a vacuum cleaner in your other hand.
A naked 4 year old clearly under parental supervision? As others have said, my only real concern would be his peeing habits. Or her peeing habits.
I used to fly out of an airfield in Wisconsin where the owner’s then 6 year old daughter had a habit of running about the property naked during the summer. It was almost funny to see the way the grown men would run away from her then call her father - “Rick, your daughter is streaking again, can you put some clothes on her?” None of them wanted to be too close to a young, naked girl for fear of being accused of wrong-doing.
Including, it turned out, the one guy who was later convicted of child molesting. Who wasn’t stupid enough to do something in public. (No… instead he repeatedly molested his niece in private. Which is all the detail I know or want to know.)
Since I was often the lone female on the field it sometimes fell to me to round her up and get her back in the house, yelling at her to put some clothes on, when her father wasn’t available to do the job. (Yes, I had permission from her dad to do this.)