What's your prudery?

Petallus If only. I can't stand up in heels and have no waist to cinch!!

I wear 'thongs' - on my feet

If it counts as prudery, I don't like sharing changing rooms either in a shop or at a swimming pool. I like to keep my imperfections to myself and I don't much like looking at anyone else's......

I do so agree about inappropriate clothing, dancing and pelvic gyrations in prepubertal girls. I had to judge a singing competition this summer and there were primary age girls singing songs that they had picked up off the TV that were about matters that were not suitable for them. Broken relationships, oblique references to sexual failure etc. - and all in skimpy shorts with the thrusting pelvis. Just not on.

The habit that some young men have of rootling down the front of their tracksuit trousers.....I don't like to think of what they may be touching afterwards . Horrid!

Inappropriate messages on tee shirts, especially on little girls.

Not sure if some of these are just about taste and not about prudery

I'm a prude when it comes to receiving inappropriate emails which I think should just have been kept between the blokes.

On the other hand I dress and undress in the changing room at the gym without a thought. It is possible I have more wobbly bits than anyone else but then just think how good that makes them feel.

Oh yes - the messages on T-shirts! I particularly hate those that imply (encourage) that the wearer is naughty.

It is very hard to get decent plain T-shirts for children - I know, I have searched diligently!

Little girls dressed as women when they aren't 'dressing up'. And (not prudery, just an objection) women dressed as little girls. Rude Tshirt slogans on anyone. FCUK trademark.

Teenage school girls with thick orange make up and painted on eyebrows, seems to be the norm to look like as porn star.

I don't like seeing schoolgirls with make up on. I think it's a pity it's allowed but realise that these days it would be difficult to enforce it.

Love bites.

Yes Flowerofthewest just why do men do that, it's horrible and embarrassing, I always want to slap their wrists.

Dogs humping on one's legs and snuffling around crotches and bottoms, and the owners who do nothing and say it's normal behaviour. I know it's accepted as normal for dogs to do this, but not on my leg, crotch or bottom thanks!

When I first came on this thread I was going to say masses of tattoos but having read through I think I agree with almost everything that has been said which must make me the biggest prude out.

Sexual innuendos.

ffin, do you respond to those owners by telling them that it's perfectly normal behaviour for you to administer a little kick in the goolies?

I will now *anno , if I ever visit said dog owners again. Somehow I can't see that happening any time soon.

Huge, bloated bellies, bull necks, crude tattoos, hairy legs, skimpy shorts straining over vast buttocks, beer breath, public flatulence, the smell of greasy street food, BO, thin white pimply legs , rudery on t-shirts.........and they call this boutique shopping!

I dis like dirty jeans crumbs on the kitchen counter and dirty floors

Here in Queensland Australia, we get all of the above, in smelly tattoed abundance. The first day we were here I was grossed out by the sight of a car mechanics bum as he bent over a car bonnet, his shorts halfway down.

This is a hot holiday area, so we see a lot of semi clad young lasses. DH was working at Stradbrooke Island once, and was given quite a treat as he saw topless sunbathing women just wander off the beach and into the shop for ice creams, wearing only bikini bottoms.

My only personal horror is multiple tattoos: I see them as graffitied people, and feel really sorry for them as they have frozen direct visual evidence of youthful stupidity all over their bodies. They have ensured that in many circles they will never have full respect. Such a shame. A little butterfly or rose is one thing, and hardly worth worrying about, but lots of different tattooes, some quite gross, is some sort of personal bodily vandalism imho.

I think the boundaries of distaste and prudery are overlapping in many of these posts. For me, being a prude is being shocked by anything of a sexual or explicit kind; disliking things like tattoos is a matter of taste, unless, of course, they are also unpleasantly explicit.

Joan your words

"They have ensured that in many circles they will never have full respect. Such a shame".

I find this comment quite judgmental to be honest with you--you are saying that everyone that has tattoos does not deserve respect from 'many circles' what does that mean exactly?

I have met some incredible people that have tattoos, amazing giving caring people.

Never ever Judge a book by its cover.

I was walking down the high street about 6 weeks ago and a lady fell to the ground, I tried to get to her as quick as I could because people were walking over her, the one and only person that managed to get there before I did and did not walk over her and in fact helped her in every way he could and stayed with her til a family member managed to get to her, was this man that had about 3 tattoos on each arm. Some very well dressed and so called respectable people just walked on by and gave no assistance to this lady.

Please do not pre judge people just because they have a tattoo, I almost feel sorry for people that can be so narrow minded.

I am not keen on tattooes either, but wasn't going to say so because I said that on a 'younger' group forum which I visited briefly before finding GN.
The next post said I was 'truly vile'!
They can be truly cutting on MN.

Just don't like to see it 'all hanging out' whether male or female, young or old. Or little girls being sexualised by their clothing or dancing.

I would not judge people because they have tattooes, as two of my DC have small ones, just prefer not to see people smothered in them.
And I visit NQ quite often, so I know what Joan means. I just wonder if some people regret having so many?

When I worked at M&S we had a regular customer who always came in wearing a vest and tracksuit bottoms. He was rather overweight and very hairy (Grey haired) I never got close enough to see if he was very sweaty, but he always looked it - just gross!!!

I said this:
"They have ensured that in many circles they will never have full respect. Such a shame".

And TAB12 said:
I find this comment quite judgmental to be honest with you--you are saying that everyone that has tattoos does not deserve respect from 'many circles' what does that mean exactly?

I am speaking the absolute truth - in many circles they WILL be judged and found wanting. I am not saying this prejudice is OK, I am saying it is real. I've seen it. I've heard it. Why pretend it isn't there?

We all have our prejudices no matter how hard we try not to have. My own prejudice isn't tattoos, though I DO find them ugly, it is religiosity. If anyone gets all religious on me I walk away. I just won't have it.