Is it against UK law to be nude in your house with no blinds/curtains on the windows?

Question

I enjoy the freedom of walking around nude in my home. However the rooms I frequent are the kitchen with no curtains/blinds and my room again with no curtains/blinds. The kitchen is surrounded by an 8 foot wall so unless someone looks over it I am protected. My bedroom on the other hand overlooks a private road and a number of the neighbours gardens. Would there be any legal issues if a neighbour spotted me in the nude?

Answer 1

hahaha don't think so but it would be highly embarrassing

but anyway though you could say that they were perving at you

Answer 2

put it this way - the last thing I want to do in the morning is look up from my cornflakes and see some bloke's tackle swinging loosely in the breeze.

Buy some of that frosting stuff for your windows...

Answer 3

If you are in a room where no neighbour / visitor could see you without eg climbing a step ladder, you would commit no offence at all. If the rooms you are in could be seen by a neighbour, or a local delivery person / visitor using your garden as access to your front door it would be different There is no specific offence to cover this behaviour. It would be covered by one of the oldest of all English laws - 'Conduct likely to occasion breach of the Queens peace'. Subject to a complaint from a neighbour or passerby, you could be arrested, reported for summons or cautioned by a police officer. On first appearing in a court of law (assuming you are found guilty) you would be 'bound over to be of good behaviour' for a length of time specified by the magistrates. A further 'offence' of the same or similar nature would lead to a fine.

Answer 4

Nudity has a strange place in the law of England. Nudity is not illegal, walking around naked is not illegal. Being naked in public is not illegal, being seen naked is not illegal. Even having s*x in the open is not illegal. But if someone who sees you feels offended then it is illegal. The only defence would be if the person who saw you went out of their way to observe you.

Answer 5

As long as you aren't pressing your genitals against the glass at the time, I can't imagine any legal problems.

Answer 6

I do it all the time and our curtains and blinds are never drawn, and although I'm on the third floor there are plenty of people in the flat across the road who may be able to see. But to be fair people are only going to see if they're being too nosey to begin with by looking so intently through your windows, so that's their own fault!

Answer 7

if you can be seen from a public right of way then yes it is.

Answer 8

It used to be an offence under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 and the Vagrancy Act, now under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, it only becomes an offence if it's intended to cause alarm or distress, there is no longer an element of being reckless to alarm or distress.

http://nuff.org.uk/factfile/content/view...

Answer 9

Nope

Answer 10

Yes, if you can be observed from a public place or if you offended public decency.

Answer 11

It can be to people over 65 and maybe some ethnic minorites.