What's your prudery?

Oh God! I wouldn't do it if we had guests!

I had no idea how much of a prude I was until I read this and realised that I hate nearly all of them.

Personally can't stand nosiness - or prurience.

A few years ago there was a fashion where I live of bare pregnant bellies being fully exposed at the first sign of warm weather.Worse when covered in stretch marks. Call me old fashioned if you like. The girl was usually arm in arm with a man with a smug grin on his face as if saying ''I did this, aren't I clever?''
Yes yes to little girls with sexy slogans on tee shirts. Especially when accompanied by the parent/parents who allowed them to be worn.
Men showing their bum cracks.
Women in tight pale coloured leggings.

I think prudery refers to an over-reaction to nudity or something sexual, so I would suggest that a dislike, even a loathing, of porn or sexual innuendo in a motto on a child's tee shirt is not prudish but perfectly reasonable. A dislike of tattoos or piercings, on the other hand (foot, face, back, ears or belly), is just that – a dislike. Jingl walking around naked might offend a prude or, depending on how shapely she is, an aesthete. I can't say it bothers me – and why should it?. I live in a one-storey house, without central heating and have a snuggly bath robe. In any case, I don't think Mr absent would notice me much whether I were bare-nakey (grandchildren's word) or wearing a burka.

I had a prudish moment just now, when checking out another thread.
Using the word 'tit' deliberately to describe breasts.

Scrap that. No, it wasn't feeling prudish, just intense irritation.

I was shocked to see six men lined up against a hedge urinating while someone else refuelled their minibus. There were toilets approx twenty metres away!

Yes that disgusts me too Kitty.
My American DiL lived in Britain for 18 months and one of the things she disliked most was people urinating in public places.
There is no defence and I felt ashamed, angry and sad that this was Britain in the 21st century.

At least it's bio-degradable, unlike litter

Not defending the disgusting practice though.

I've been struggling to think what my prudery is. Nakedness doesn't bother me in the slightest and a lot of the dislikes described on here isn't really prudery.

It has just come to me though that I am slightly offended by the sight of female genitalia outlined by too tight leggings - the camel toe effect. Is that prudish of me?

aren't not isn't

kittylester were the six peeing men 'foreign'?

I only ask because it seems like unusual behaviour for our own dear blokes.

It doesn't disgust me, so long as they have their backs turned. It's probably good for the hedge. Different if they did it onto concrete or tarmac because then the area would get a bit smelly. Onto earth/vegetation, no problem. In some countries that's the only option for many people. I'm not saying that's ideal, but it doesn't disgust me.

I had to let some Cubs urinate behind trees last weekend because they were "bursting" and traipsing back with ten other kids to where there were toilets wasn't an option, neither was leaving the ten others and traipsing with one. Males are lucky that it's so easy. Even with a shewee, it isn't so easy for females.

I mean six all lined up together.

absent she's definitely "shapely". Maybe not of the page 3 kind though.

Love "bare-nakey"!

What is wrong with using the word "tit" to describe a breastfeeding breast? It is a derivation of teat. Which is what babies suck on. See, to me that reveals hidden prudish-ness.

Can't be 'hidden prudishness' if it was mentioned on here

Yes it can be.

ffin actually admitted to a 'prudish moment' not hidden at all.

Not criticising ffff-finn at all. Just slaying.

SAYING !!!!

When I was in Grenoble some years ago the women had to walk to their toilets straight past the men's urinals where their backs were on full view.
DH & DS were rather taken aback by this at first but realised that if they needed a pee they had no choice. Their attitudes had changed by the end of the holiday.

Things may have changed now but I suspect a lot of Europeans have a different attitude to us about this.

As "Thatbags" says peeing into a hedge does no real harm shop doorways are a different matter.
Walking groups often have a ladies or gentlemen forward call to allow this function. It is always a case of "We know where you're going" but it is accepted that you do not turn round.
Last time I was in Greece one set of public toilets were so disgusting I went up into the pine woods.

Using euphemisms like boobs, tits and willies is a form of prudishness. Call a spade a bloody shovel!