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Many, if not most, cultures outside of Europe are touchy about nudity. Europe is not the forefront of ethical civilization. You’d think after the 19th century
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
Many, if not most, cultures outside of Europe are touchy about nudity. Europe is not the forefront of ethical civilization.
You’d think after the 19th century and colonialism, Europeans would be a little less eager to condemn the rest of the world as ethically behind. Alas...your sentiment is an all too common one.
- Barrin92 6y agoI don't think the rest of the world is 'ethically behind' or that a healthy relationship to the human body is exclusively European. It's basically protestant modernity or whatever you want to call it that's caused this repression, also a European export so it's not like we're not to blame for a good portion of it. Huge chunks of the colonised world actually had fairly diverse and healthy attitudes towards nudity and sexuality before the era of colonisation. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards is a great book about sexuality in Iran. But either way today it does seem to be mostly the US which has the kind of influence that Europe had, and I don't enjoy it because it seems to affect our culture in negative ways.