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The difference here is we're not observing long standing cultural attitudes in millennials, but a very short term shift that defies their parent culture. You're

• benten10 11y ago
  OP claims to explain the 'shying away from nudity' phenomena using the 'ahh those precious young people' argument. I argue that it's not necessarily the 'precious youth' that is shy of nudity, and I present a cross-cultural proof that shyness of nudity is not necessarily due to his presumed cause. Comparing Apples to Oranges is exactly what's needed here. By doing so, I'm helping isolate the variable OP suggests affects Apples is not so. Imagine he'd claimed that Apples are suddenly brown because of 'those damn young trees'. If I show that those darned young trees elsewhere don't have the same issue, then there'd be a greater need on the OP's side to actually provide the proof that it's those darned precious young people. OP needs to provide a greater proof that it's because of those 'precious youth'. I might argue that it's due to increased cultural influence of more body-conservative cultures, or because (ridiculous as it may sound) online nudity is now so common, people don't want their online versions to be identified to offline bodies [which is VERY different from what OP argues].
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > but a very short term shift that defies their parent culture. Except its not a "very short term shift that defies their parent culture", its a long term drift in the broader culture, as the article notes: Gen-Xers are notably different than Boomers on this, in the same direction (though not to the same degree) as Millenials.