3 ms·

Honestly, I think if public nudity was common, no-one would care about it. When you go to the beach and see people in swimming costumes, there isn't really much

Honestly, I think if public nudity was common, no-one would care about it. When you go to the beach and see people in swimming costumes, there isn't really much left to the imagination. You can already pretty much figure out what they look like naked, but no-one cares, we're all used to it. Society just places a weird importance on nipples and genitals. But just women's nipples. Even though men's nipples kind of look the same anyway. You could take a swimsuit catalogue and cut the nipples off the men and glue them onto the women and turn it into porn. If you think about it, we're just animals. It's really crazy that we can't just walk around in our natural state freely because we tend to feel really weird about looking at other members of our own species. What if I've got it backwards and other animals are just as prudish? When a dog is barking at another dog, maybe he's really saying, "hey, check out this weirdo - he's naked! Get the hell out of here, you pervert!"

sunglasses 13y ago
"swimming costumes"... are you British? :) But yes, this apprehension of nudity is something I've always found so bizarre. Why is seeing skin of our species such a big deal? At what point of our social evolution did it evolve that way (because the idea of clothing is pretty universal to humans).
- Symmetry 13y ago
  The idea of clothing isn't quite universal, but nearly so. Still, we're something of an outlier in how serious our nudity taboo is. As far as I can tell most cultures are ok with women going around topless and most think that it's ok for men and women to see each other naked when bathing, though I guess Hollywood is changing that.
DrStalker 13y ago
If you want an idea of what the imagination can fill in when someone is in a swimming costume look up "bubbling"; the examples here will show you how it works: http://gizmodo.com/5627807/bubbling-tricks-your-mind-to-makes-anyone-naked http://gizmodo.com/5627807/bubbling-tricks-your-mind-to-make... Link is technically safe for work but looks NSFW (that being the entire point of the illusion)

sunglasses 13y ago

"swimming costumes"... are you British? :) But yes, this apprehension of nudity is something I've always found so bizarre. Why is seeing skin of our species such a big deal? At what point of our social evolution did it evolve that way (because the idea of clothing is pretty universal to humans).

Symmetry 13y ago
The idea of clothing isn't quite universal, but nearly so. Still, we're something of an outlier in how serious our nudity taboo is. As far as I can tell most cultures are ok with women going around topless and most think that it's ok for men and women to see each other naked when bathing, though I guess Hollywood is changing that.

DrStalker 13y ago

If you want an idea of what the imagination can fill in when someone is in a swimming costume look up "bubbling"; the examples here will show you how it works: http://gizmodo.com/5627807/bubbling-tricks-your-mind-to-makes-anyone-naked http://gizmodo.com/5627807/bubbling-tricks-your-mind-to-make... Link is technically safe for work but looks NSFW (that being the entire point of the illusion)