California and Germany are both rich and relatively successful. The reasons for it have nothing to do with their respective stance on nudity. It makes no sense

California and Germany are both rich and relatively successful. The reasons for it have nothing to do with their respective stance on nudity. It makes no sense to compare metrics here, they are useless, because there is no causation. You just have to look at poorer states from both the US and EU with the same ideas about nudity but wildly different economic outcomes to see that. Their success is based on cars, an engineering tradition, the US dollar, the biggest local market, DARPA, the protestant religion, competing nation states next door and a hundred other things. What I personally think the handling and censorship of nudity might actually influence is democratic discourse, mechanisms of what shocks, what should be censored, what works for populism, what is seen as freedom and what ultimately gets elected.