What on earth is John Gammon on about re the would-be nude cyclist protestors (The Argus, June 17)? He says "these are not paedophiles".
Well, I'm afraid unsolicited open nudity on our streets in front of the general public, which obviously includes children, is legally an act of indecent exposure and clearly comes rather close to a paedophile crime.
Brighton is certainly a tolerant place from Clifford Musgrave's history we learn there were nudist beaches in 1850 but Victorian traditions at least taught us not to be ungentlemanly.
Nowadays, unsolicited nudity may be seen as sexist too. And if anyone tries to claim children are more likely to be killed by cars than by paedophiles, imagine the fuss if they tried to use arguments like those to play down racist and homophobic attacks. Protestors should grasp that Lady Godiva is the stuff of myth.
-Richard Whitehouse, Brighton
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