My local cycling newsletter tells me the police commander for Brighton and Hove, Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp, told participants in the Naked Bike Ride to cover up their most intimate parts or risk breaking the law (The Argus, June 6).

In fact, in English law there are two types of indecent exposure but neither of them has any impact on nudity in general.

Councillor Dawn Barnett is also wrong to refer to this policy as common sense, as nobody is able to properly define indecency. The common law offence of indecent exposure is difficult to use except for deliberate flashers who have intent to offend.

I tend to take an attitude I learnt from a Catholic student who told me the reason Renaissance art is full of depictions of the body is because the Church teaches that if you see any sin in the naked human body then the sin is in your mind.

God created the human body so it cannot be sinful of itself. Whether one believes or not, it is an extraordinarily logical and in many ways beautiful attitude.

Nick Hales, Uphill Drive, Bath