Pool Pervert

[OceanMan]

Can't stop laughing

[Pastor]

Originally Posted by jimdoe2you

My question: What kind of a person would do such a thing to an eight year old boy?

Only a cruel heartless person could do such a thing, Jim you have my sympathies, this is just terrible! Poor poor boy!

[Fondueset]

My son who has autism used to be fascinated by the backs of peoples knees.
ONce in awhile young ladies would think he was checking them out - they all got a good laugh out of it as he was only 8 years old. Noone was ever unkind to him about it.

In a pool I would think it would be enough just to tell him to knock it off - kids get locked into stuff without really knowing what they are doing - a little reality check to help them remember themselves.

Nice response to the underwater assault - must have some training there Superhornet.

[BatRay]

It's one thing when it's a little kid, but even some of them need to be reprimanded. It's quite another when some creepy guy is really obviously perving. Since most of us on this forum have more of a diver, we can tell the difference between a diver practicing statics and a weird floppy squidlike swimmer.
Discrimination... I think they just don't know any better. In some cases, it may be wise to tell the lifeguard what you're up to before you start practicing. It's likely that many of them have never heard of freedive training. Besides, how often do you see women blatantly wearing snorkel gear and checking out the men? I really don't know; that's why I ask .

[superhornet59]

Originally Posted by Fondueset

Nice response to the underwater assault - must have some training there Superhornet.

actually your right, when i was a bit younger i wanted to go snorkelling with my dad, of course i lacked my down time. but one time we saw sharks, and they were pretty frisky, so one day i decided i would learn and practice how to kick the cr@p out of a shark . the day never came, but since then ive had good oportunities to sharpen my skills . but you anti-testosterone guys are right, especialy Ben Gowland, your totaly right, how can you know what im up to from one perspective.

I must say some of the best and most ridiculous parts of my life took plac in the water

oh and if people dont know what freediving is (or how to spell it for that matter) then how can they know if im doing it? its not theyre fault, but it is slightly ignorant. no matter how hot the woman, i wouldnt stay underwater for 5 minutes to watch her... at least not witout saying hello

[Ricochet]

This topic reminds me on a comic strip that has been posted some time ago:

[superhornet59]

HAHA! thats funny, but the bubbles are a dead giveaway

EDIT: if only the women at my pool were naked babes

[land shark]

ok ok now I'm confused. Lets see the women put on a sting bikini and jump in the pool but we are not suppose to look! mmm lemme think !
ooooo ok!! I get it The next line would be "would someone please close the lid on my coffin?" When I see a pretty woman swim by the first thing I do is check my pulse and thank God I'm alive

btw jimdoe, sorry to hear about your son who would do such a thing to our future freedivers. After all the future of our beloved sport is in our youths.

ya know that reminds me. A buddy of mine was swimming at a pool in the UK while he was visiting there. And he saw a woman who had left her headlamps on her car burning. He said it was quite funny how every time he swam toward her to tell her, she kept swimming to the other side of the pool then she would dissappear for like 5 mins.

[crusty]

I was at a Water Polo training session about 10 years ago and we had these two lovely young girls watching us from the side of the pool.( they were having a good old Perv)

One of them went for a swim and pulled herself onto the side pool as she did her bikini top ( strappless ) slid down, she sat on the side of the pool with her friend for about 2 minutes and couldnt figure out while most of the players had stopped training and were stairing at her.

It was then her friend noticed that we were all perving at her friends ample chest and they both ran away.

I would have loved for the poolies to try and through the 20 of us out for having a Perv

Crusty

[delagirh]

All this time I thought that the lifeguards were watching me to make sure that I didn't drown while practicing dynamics. Now I wonder if they ensuring that I wasn't perving. It wouldn't really work for me anyways, everytime I start diving, half the kids in the pool come over and start diving too. I feel like the bloody Pied-piper. However, I do have a tendency to stare at my girlfriend while she is swimming.
On the flip side, as a guy I have been perved at the pool. This old guy used to stare at me everytime I went to the pool and had a tendency to arrive in the changeroom while I was changing.

[ggarrett]

Returning to the original question: the proper course of action would be to report it, not complain, to the lifeguard or the pool management. Preceptions of perversion vary from person to person as this thread shows.

Having said that, this post brought back a twenty-five year old memory. For a several month stretch of time, a lady came to lap swim. She had the habit of having the top of her suit slip past her breasts. She would continue swimming for the duration of her workout. Could I not look? Obviously, I did. (I tried to avoid goggle to goggle contract... but I had a hard time not looking her way) I rationalized it this way: I could not imagine that she did not know she was swimming bare-breasted. So, it seemed that she was asking all the other lap swimmers to look. Now, who would be the pervert in this situation? If a man exposes himself, it's more perverted that if a woman exposes herself. Actually, what's perverted and what's not depends on who gets offended. In the original situation of this thread, it seemed like a third party got more offended than the actual participants. That's why it would be best to let a fourth party, like a lifeguard or pool manager, decide any appropriate action.

That's another 2¢...

Peace,
Glen

[island_sands]

oh Jim
did i mention your son was with another small individual and they were carrying those plastic swords underwater? Waving them about? A strange individual indeed.

And yes, ggarett, the lady whose mammaries were poking over the top of her bathing suit was probably not doing it on purpose as if you wear balconette style (Wonder Bra) bikinis the rush of water tends to do that and that is possibly what sparked the youngster's interest, rather like a young voyeur in a peep show, staring through those funny lenses of a Kinetoscope trying his best to see the full image but it's not quite visible while he desperately stick another 2c in the slot and tries not dribble on the eyepiece.... it's at that point in the pool that his goggles are not goggles any more but rather googles...

I was in the LADIES CLUB at the time where one expects privacy and the whole point of the club is maharem i.e. one expects to escape from prying eyes and enjoy the freedom of exposing some parts of your body that, in this country, no other men may see except your husband...

[BatRay]

You do have to use discretion on whether or not the person is truly perving. In the case of the topless ladies, it's probably a cross between checking them out and a double take, as in 'I can't believe I just saw that'. In that case, pretty much anyone could be excused for glancing over, kind of like a car wreck.

[Poida]

that happened to me once here in a pool in Dubai. Fortunately (or unfortunately for the guy) he was only about NINE YEARS OLD, but old enough however, to stare at me under water using his mask.. he was even trying to stay ahead of me to see me from the front...

I swam close to him, pushed his head under the water for about 3 seconds, then brought him to the surface, and shouted in his face. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT???? WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHO IS YOUR MOTHER AND WHERE IS SHE???
HAVE SOME RESPECT... OK???

Island Sands you should realy think about the effect this could have before taking such action, because it happened to me.

I guess I was only starting to see women as a subject of pleasure when I was in the local pool with my mask and snorkle.

After admiring a well built women for a while she did the same as you. Grabbed me and held me under for what seemed ages. Dragged me to the surface and demanded to see my mother.

My little heart was beating and with the small amount of breath I had left in me I sobbed. "I'm 59 she's been dead for years you stupid bitch."

[land shark]

picture is worth a thouSANDS words