Public Displays of Affection

[LarenzoAOG]

I've seen a man getting his dick sucked at Palm Beach, a kind of multi-pool indoor waterpark type thing, I've also seen men and women walk around the same place in the nude, so anything short of fucking in public probably won't bother me, and hell maybe even that wouldn't bother me.

 

[ScottocS]

I see a hint of angst here and there.. hmm... so LONELY! :3

OT:
I don't have a problem with PDA's. Probably get to the snogging stage and it's a little unnerving sometimes, but hey WHY ARE YOU WATCHING? You can look away at any time.

My Girlfriend and I don't go over the top in public, but hey, why should we care? We don't do it to spite you

 

[Trippy Turtle]

As a lot of things in life people need to get over shit.

 

[infohippie]

Well, given I've shagged in a public park with no more than a waist-high wall separating us from all the people who'd come to see the new Christmas lights around twenty metres away, I have no problems with public displays of affection. You're not being forced to look, after all.

 

[BumblebeeEU]

I enjoy seeing PDA's. I'm a huge hopeless romantic, so it fills my heart with joy when I see two people in love. Even full blown making out is cool with me. Hands touching/groping bodies is probably where I draw the line though. It wouldn't make me angry though, just seeing it in public would be a little awkward.

This is pretty much how I fell about it too.

Seeing people happy together makes me happy, that's how this whole empathy thing is supposed to work, the cutest thing in the world is seeing an old couple holding hands or having a quick kiss, it makes me happy to be alive.

Today me and my girlfriend left each others company and wont see each other for a sizable period of time, when at the ferry terminal she started crying (if you were leaving me you would be crying too) surely it would of been more awkward for people around us if I hadn't hugged her and given her a kiss.

PDA is sweet as long as it is affectionate.

Another thing, when in public I do tend to slap my girlfriends rear parts, not for any sexual reason but just to see if I can embarrass her, would this count as PDA?

 

[game-lover]

For those who say you're not being forced to look... I'm always certain that's not always the case as some examples would suffice.

Well, given I've shagged in a public park with no more than a waist-high wall separating us from all the people who'd come to see the new Christmas lights around twenty metres away, I have no problems with public displays of affection. You're not being forced to look, after all.

This I can tell you right now is my biggest worry and nightmare. A paranoid concern you could say that one day I'll be out minding my own business and I'll accidentally spy a couple rutting around outside, where anyone can just walk over and see. All these people wanting to do public things. And I bet you didn't give a damn about whether you got caught because all you wanted was to get your rocks off. And this notion infuriates me.

I worry what I'd do if I caught a couple like you and your girl. Honestly, if you'd told me that you got sent to jail for a month due to public indecency, I'd laugh at you and say it'd serve you right.

 

[infohippie]

For those who say you're not being forced to look... I'm always certain that's not always the case as some examples would suffice.

Well, given I've shagged in a public park with no more than a waist-high wall separating us from all the people who'd come to see the new Christmas lights around twenty metres away, I have no problems with public displays of affection. You're not being forced to look, after all.

This I can tell you right now is my biggest worry and nightmare. A paranoid concern you could say that one day I'll be out minding my own business and I'll accidentally spy a couple rutting around outside, where anyone can just walk over and see. All these people wanting to do public things. And I bet you didn't give a damn about whether you got caught because all you wanted was to get your rocks off. And this notion infuriates me.

I worry what I'd do if I caught a couple like you and your girl. Honestly, if you'd told me that you got sent to jail for a month due to public indecency, I'd laugh at you and say it'd serve you right.

Why does it worry you so? If you happen to catch sight of a couple shagging will you suddenly go blind? More importantly, why the hell is sex and/or nudity considered "indecent" in the first place? It's a perfectly natural thing for two primates to engage in. I think all the weight it's afforded is ridiculous.
We're not inconsiderate, if we were disturbing anyone, we'd say "sorry" and move to another spot elsewhere. I have been "caught" before, and all I got was a smile and a thumbs-up.

 

[sarahvait]

Why not stay home on the couch and stream netflix? Are you just wanting to show off in front of an audience or what? I'm not sure it even bugs me, but I am honestly a bit confused about the whole thing.

I have been dating my current boyfriend for about five months. In those five months, I don't believe that we have yet completed a movie -- in any genre -- without stopping to swap all kinds of fluids.

That being the case, movie theaters are effectively an additional form of birth control.

Just sayin'.

XD Well, that does seem logical. You ever had a movie you ended up making out through the whole time, and afterwards were like "Crap, I really wanted to see that one!"

 

[Radelaide]

Anything past hugging or hand-holding annoys me. Kissing of any sort past the level of politeness infuriates me, and anything more intimate than that should, in my mind, be an arrestable offense carrying a minor jail sentence - let's say a couple of hours in the drunk tank.

You're a very angry person, aren't you?

OT: I hold hands, kiss (on the cheek or mouth), cuddle, etc with my boyfriend in public, but we're aware of what is and isn't appropriate. IMO, people who can't handle it should move. Why shouldn't I be allowed to express love for someone in public (in an appropriate fashion) because it infringes in their delicate sensibilities?

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

The anti-pda people are out there. They really should learn to mind their own business.

Now I am not French, but I think they have the right attitude to love and romance in public. Why the hell not kiss, hug etc?

It revolts some people out, but that is their problem. I will not hold back with my beautiful bride, and I tell people off when they try to control us.

Also, trying to limit public displays of affection, is that really the best thing for a society to do? Shouldn't we be concentrating on other things? The government, the law, it should stay out of the bedroom and away from happy couples.

 

[B-Rye]

I personally am not touch-oriented when it comes to other people beyond a handshake, but public displays of affection really do not bother me so long as it is tame (i.e. hand-holding, cuddling at the park). Hell I don't even mind if a couple is making out on the bus; to each their own provided they maintain a distance from me of two and half meters. If I'm in a relationship, the only person I should have to prove my affection to is the woman I am with, not the random passerby or concentration of people in our general vicinity. If I commit any public display of affection it will be to get that point across to her, not the world.

 

[B-Rye]

I was at a Dream Theater concert on Sunday, and the couple next to me started fucking, and at one point were leaning on me. That pissed me off. Not the fucking, but the leaning.

I guess what I'm trying to say is shit only bothers me if it actually interferes with me. Or society as a whole. Which "PDA"'s don't.

Ha! Same thing happened to a friend at a Tool concert (except Tool was encouraging it, they even had roadies and other people handing out condoms to people in the pit, according to him).

 

[trollnystan]

Hand-holding and cuddling is fine to me, and so is kissing and touching even if it makes jealousy rage like an unholy green flame inside me... Ahem. It's when it degenerates in showing their tongues into each other's throats and/or looking like they're a few articles of clothing away from doing the beast with two backs, THAT'S when I have a problem with PDA.

Please don't make me witness IRL porn on the street. Porn is what the internet is for.

 

[silent_noir_67]

I don't really mind.

Face sucking is out...it's just too awkwards lol.

Anything before that? no worries. I'm good with holding hands, hugging and kissing.
I've been in pda situations and it gets so irritating when everyones bitching about it. i mean holding hands is offensive or lewd?

 

[Polarity27]

Hand-holding and cuddling is fine to me, and so is kissing and touching even if it makes jealousy rage like an unholy green flame inside me... Ahem. It's when it degenerates in showing their tongues into each other's throats and/or looking like they're a few articles of clothing away from doing the beast with two backs, THAT'S when I have a problem with PDA.

Please don't make me witness IRL porn on the street. Porn is what the internet is for.

If you're out in a group and have a napkin and pen, rate 'em like the Olympics.

I... err... may have actually done that once. To this day I'll never know if Blowjob Couple was upset that we all watched, or upset that two of us only gave them a 5. But y'know, if you're doing something like that in public (and not behind a bush in the woods somewhere where it's vaguely reasonable to expect that people won't be), you can't really complain when you draw an audience.

 

[Viral_Lola]

I know a couple that is very PDA heavy. If they could have sex in public, I'm sure they would. People have complained to them about it but nothing sticks.

 

[B-Rye]

For those who say you're not being forced to look... I'm always certain that's not always the case as some examples would suffice.

Well, given I've shagged in a public park with no more than a waist-high wall separating us from all the people who'd come to see the new Christmas lights around twenty metres away, I have no problems with public displays of affection. You're not being forced to look, after all.

This I can tell you right now is my biggest worry and nightmare. A paranoid concern you could say that one day I'll be out minding my own business and I'll accidentally spy a couple rutting around outside, where anyone can just walk over and see. All these people wanting to do public things. And I bet you didn't give a damn about whether you got caught because all you wanted was to get your rocks off. And this notion infuriates me.

I worry what I'd do if I caught a couple like you and your girl. Honestly, if you'd told me that you got sent to jail for a month due to public indecency, I'd laugh at you and say it'd serve you right.

Why does it worry you so? If you happen to catch sight of a couple shagging will you suddenly go blind? More importantly, why the hell is sex and/or nudity considered "indecent" in the first place? It's a perfectly natural thing for two primates to engage in. I think all the weight it's afforded is ridiculous.
We're not inconsiderate, if we were disturbing anyone, we'd say "sorry" and move to another spot elsewhere. I have been "caught" before, and all I got was a smile and a thumbs-up.

This likely is culture based. Just turn on the TV in whatever area you live and compare it to another region. In the US we have all sorts of violence on TV but not much in the way of sex. Its like the US is afraid that showing humans at their most primal and natural will destroy the country's moral foundations, yet in various European countries (filled with people who can be as moral and amoral as their US counterparts) their television is filled with plenty of sex (which has a humor of its own) but barely any violence. Just goes to show what a culture prioritizes...
...I think I want to move to some country in Europe now. Heh.

 

[infohippie]

...

You are completely inconsiderate. At the very least, you would be reminding me of what I can never have, and what everybody persists in making me feel like a freak for never being able to get. At the worst, you would actually nauseate me, and frankly, I don't like the taste of vomit at all. The idea of two other people engaging in sex actually makes me feel sick, and as such, you could be considered absolutely and entirely inconsiderate and perverted for engaging in sexual intercourse in public by my standards.

...

Why should people still be allowed to persist in insisting that I'm a freak and a monster because I can't find anybody who would ever want to be at all intimate with me? I know I'm a freak. It doesn't make it hurt any less when people keep on going on about it.

Does your name happen to be Joseph Merrick? If not than of course you can - and hell, you probably could even if you were him! There's all sorts of preferences in the world. Just drop the attitude, that's the only thing likely to be standing in the way of you getting laid.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The rules are no tongues and keep hands off bodies (except for hugs, of course).

I don't understand why that annoys people, unless they're just bitter and jealous. I which case, sucks to be you, don't take it out on other people.

 

[Griffolion]

Kissing, hugging, holding hands = fantastic, do it all you want

"Snogging", getting quite heated = bit uncomfortable, get a room

Everything else = seriously, please get a room


Nothing wrong with PDA's (never done that acronym before!) so long as they are in moderation and controlled, we gotta show the love after all!