A lesbian couple was ordered to stop kissing and was told to ‘think of the children’ at a Cardiff festvial.

Mog Wilde and girlfriend Freya, both 35 from Pembrokeshire, were visiting the Cardiff Food Festival to go out and enjoy the grub, listen and dance to live music and have a great time.

But others were ‘disgusted’ by their affection for each other, with one picture showing an elderly couple looking shocked and appalled by the young loving couple.

Due to the complaints, a security guard went up to them and ordered them to stop kissing.

‘Someone came up to us and told us it was disgusting and to stop because there were children around but this was a public place and we were not doing anything wrong,’ Wilde said.

‘I am quite fierce and not a shy girl so I brushed it off. But it did leave me a bit shaky.’

Not everyone was disgusted, two men also began publicly kissing in an act of protest after the women had been told off.

‘These two men were complete strangers and I think in a drunken show of outrage and support they started kissing and some of the crowd cheered them on,’ Wilde said, according to Mail Online.

‘This was so upsetting. I’m sure if it was a husband and wife kissing then nothing would be said. But I am made of tough stuff and I am just glad that it did not happen to other more quiet and sensitive girls.’

She added: ‘It is 2015 not 1815. We honestly did not think this would happen here.’

A Cardiff council spokesperson said: ‘At approximately 3pm on Saturday, 11 July festival stewards received a number of complaints from members of the public about a couple who were engaged in a very strong display of public affection at the festival.

‘Once the couple in question had been identified a steward approached them and reminded them that sexual behavior of this level was inappropriate for what is very much a family event.

‘At no time did any Council employee ask the couple to leave.

‘The council has stringent policies on equalities and discrimination and the same course of action would have been taken regardless of the sexual orientation of the individuals involved.’