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The sexual revolution might have played a role in parking the idea in our minds that the human body is inherently sexual. Also, advertising does a lot to sexualise the human form as well and in a society with a great many taboos about sex, both justified and unjustified, that can make nudity very uncomfortable indeed.
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AARO posted:Yet in many European countries they have nude beaches. Germany has nude public parks. These Western nations have undergone the sexual revolution of the 60's as well. They are also subject to sexualized advertising. Many countries in Europe have nude photos in their newspapers and no one bats an eye. However, they are not ashamed of nudity as Americans are. Why is this? In europe, or at least in Germany, there was popular pre-war "free body culture" that promoted nude bathing and swimming as a sort of back to nature thing for families and whatnot. In Scandinavia, saunas seved a similar function and along the mediterranean coast topless swimming and sunbathing's been a thing for a long while. In the UK, though, things have always been a lot more conservative, so maybe the obsession with modesty is more of an anglophone thing in general.
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Sep 25, 2016 09:20
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Maybe if Americans had a bit more of a free body culture they wouldn't all be gross fatties on rascal scooters.
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Sep 25, 2016 17:21
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