Naked Bike Ride - Take Action
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:40
The Naked Bike Ride 2012 could potentially happen in your City on a weekend when families, children, vulnerable adults and teenagers may be around the route, unaware of the sight they are about to face.
Many people are offended, embarrassed and/or intimidated by the full nudity of a stranger.Children taking part in the ride will be paraded naked around our city where all manner of people are free to look and to take photographs. What kind of organisation parades naked children around a city and considers it both lawful and acceptable?
Parents, who normally have a choice of what their children see in and out of the home, will have that privilege taken from them on this day. While they monitor what their children see on the television, internet and in their homes, if they use public areas during the day of the Naked Bike Ride their children will be exposed to the full nudity of a group of men, women and children.
If we allow this event to continue and grow we effectively look the other way while nudity in public becomes commonplace and men and women will remain uncontested as they expose their genitals to anyone at any time in any place.
Next year's Naked Bike Rides will take place in May and June. Portsmouth's is planned for Saturday 26th May 2012 starting at 1pm and will again cycle past our busy sea-side area, children's parks, shopping areas and tourist attractions.
Naked Bike Rides are also planned to cycle through the busy areas of Bath, Brighton (10th June), Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter (9th June), London (9th June), Manchester, Sheffield, Southampton and York. Other cities being considered for 2012 are Belfast, Bournemouth, Cambridge, Canterbury, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Oxford and Totnes.
You can help stop these naked men and women exposing themselves to your community, in front of your family, by signing our e-petition. If we collect 100,000 signatures the issue automatically goes to House of Commons. However, once we get 2,000 signatures we will start talking to MP's.