So, why is human nudity such a taboo issue?

[Baruch]

The first step is to acknowledge that "we" have a problem.  The second step is to acknowledge that "you and I" are part of the "us and them".  There is nothing wrong with inhibitions, provided that they are not unexamined.  To "Freud" Socrates ... an examined neurosis isn't worth getting worked up about, it is the unexamined ones that burn.  I have no problem with people's nudity ... or limited exposure of parts ... provided it isn't part of a general sociopathic pattern.  I don't think most nursing mothers are sociopaths however.  And my mother told me it was wrong to stare.

[Mike Cl]

For some reason, sex has become something shameful and terrible and wrong except in a few, well-controlled, limited circumstances. Covering your naughty bits apparently prevents us from thinking about sex, which is bad and wrong and naughty unless it's one man, one woman who are MARRIED, missionary position only, lights out, in bed and under the covers, without contraception whenever the man wants it. (and only dirty girls talk about what they need to derive pleasure from said act).

And let's not even discuss public breastfeeding, since boobs should be kept under wraps since they are for sexual purposes only.

To violate any of these basic principles of modesty can certainly get a girl raped.

I think much of the aggression that humans show toward each other is directly related to this. What the hell is wrong with people? We are fucked UP.

I don't see anything wrong with what you just said.  I mean, Pat Robertson, Billy Graham and my local minster told me that what you said was correct and moral.  Now, who am I going to believe--a wrong headed female who claims to know her body and wants more than an old, male minister, who for sure knows what is good for her???!!!  Duhhhh......................................! (Brought to you by Duck Dynasty)

[SilentFutility]

The really strange thing about the taboo on nudity is how disproportionately it's regarded.  You can put all sorts of stuff on a magazine cover, but somehow, breastfeeding is the thing that crosses the line.  Or TV shows can have a great deal violence without much problem, but have to be extremely cautious with any nudity or sex scenes, if they're allowed to show any at all.  I mean, Game of Thrones can show beheadings galore and no one bats and eye, but show a naked woman and everyone loses their minds.

Interestingly, cernsors in different countries treat violence and nudity differently. In mainland Europe, nudity or at least partial nudity is less of an issue than violence in entertainment, whereas in the UK it is traditionally the opposite.

[Baruch]

France has partially nude beaches.  But the US shows its close relation to GB.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

At 56 I'm not so thrilled by running around butt ass naked not because of anything really all that cultural,but because my ass one day decided to disappear somewhere down around my ankles I think and my gut protrudes a bit and my legs and chest look like a 7 year old boy from a refugee camp. I still see myself once in awhile in a mirror and go WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED? I weigh about 160 and look like a 70 year old woman except between the legs and my face. .I don't even remember this shit happening, but if I were to run around naked in public one of two things would happen. .well more than 2, but either people would laugh hysterically or be jealous because their own fat asses look even worse. .My quick description of my ass..imagine wet spackling thrown against two 2x4s..  Nobody wants to see that. .

[GSOgymrat]

Nobody wants to see that. .

You underestimate us.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

You underestimate us.

The term "morbid curiosity" just popped into my mind. Coincidence?

[aitm]

Again I think we tend to over think the obvious. When we started to gather as tribes and the idea that survival might work better if people coupled instead of just the strongest banging all the gals, I would suggest it was initiated by insecurities from men to prevent other men from getting the idea, and more so to help cloak the smell of her cycle as well perhaps to make it harder for competing males to have easy access. Later on no doubt there may have been some penis envy as well. Why can't it just be simply, "well if seeing her naked and smelling her period gets me all horny, may be it does that to other guys too, lets cover that shit up."

[Munch]

Again I think we tend to over think the obvious. When we started to gather as tribes and the idea that survival might work better if people coupled instead of just the strongest banging all the gals, I would suggest it was initiated by insecurities from men to prevent other men from getting the idea, and more so to help cloak the smell of her cycle as well perhaps to make it harder for competing males to have easy access. Later on no doubt there may have been some penis envy as well. Why can't it just be simply, "well if seeing her naked and smelling her period gets me all horny, may be it does that to other guys too, lets cover that shit up."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLMSf4afzo

[Solitary]

At 56 I'm not so thrilled by running around butt ass naked not because of anything really all that cultural,but because my ass one day decided to disappear somewhere down around my ankles I think and my gut protrudes a bit and my legs and chest look like a 7 year old boy from a refugee camp. I still see myself once in awhile in a mirror and go WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED? I weigh about 160 and look like a 70 year old woman except between the legs and my face. .I don't even remember this shit happening, but if I were to run around naked in public one of two things would happen. .well more than 2, but either people would laugh hysterically or be jealous because their own fat asses look even worse. .My quick description of my ass..imagine wet spackling thrown against two 2x4s..  Nobody wants to see that. .

You always crack me up, like the woman who flies an airplane upside down. The first time my mistress showed me nude she laughed out loud, even though I was built like a Greek god, I had a penis like Michelangelo's David. If I went around nude now I would cause uncontrollable laughter from everyone for the whole package, even if I wore a bra---or should that be bro?

[Munch]

Well in ancient Greece they purposely draw and sculpted mens schlongs tiny, because back then any man having a large penis was considered something laughable. So I often think nude male images from greece might just have not been giving them justice. 

[Solitary]

I think nudity became taboo for two reasons besides the obvious of protection and social norms, sex, and religion.

Sex because of men and woman trying to be sexually attractive, and ironically keeping them from it. And from religion to obsessively to control and subjugate woman to a puritan ethic. And for men, to keep woman from having penis envy for a males small penis that those in control have. I think this is why pornography is objected to by so many too. People, men and women object to others looking better than they do, and or, having more fun. I don't think anything changes nudity for the better than skinny dipping. It was my first experience with a Tom Boy in my neighborhood when around 13.



   What is there to see? Nipples and a patch of hair, big fucking deal.

They don't seem to have a problem with it.

This tribe still doesn't cover up so-called private parts.

This tribe don't wear clothes still.

[Cocoa Beware]

Honestly I don't think clothes are such a bad idea. I'd freeze my balls off most of the year, and to be honest there is a lot of people I really would rather not see naked.

All the figures in this thread so far have beautiful chiseled bodies, but there is a dark side to nudity, believe me.

[Atheon]

Gotta protect the genitalia so they function well to pass on the genes.

[Shiranu]

Honestly I don't think clothes are such a bad idea. I'd freeze my balls off most of the year, and to be honest there is a lot of people I really would rather not see naked.

All the figures in this thread so far have beautiful chiseled bodies, but there is a dark side to nudity, believe me.

This. I couldn't even enjoy the beautiful nudists because I would have bleached-and-burned my eyes long before I met them.