I keep seeing this “prudish, puritanical” complaint on this board about society, and I keep wondering where it’s coming from, and I wonder if the people making the complaint have bothered to actually notice what’s going on around them.
A society that was actually prudish or puritanical would have its women dressing something like this.
Or maybe something like this.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Female_hijab_in_Islam.jpg
But instead, nearly everybody thinks that it’s perfectly fine for people to go half naked in public.
http://www.npc-wear.com/colorpics/CottonHoodie-athlete.jpg
A society that thinks that a person somehow needs to be 60-80% naked in order to exercise is not a “prudish, puritanical” society.
A society that thinks it’s ok to be 90% naked in public in order to swim is not a “prudish, puritanical” society.
A society where very large parts of the population are ok with showing simulations of sex in popular entertainment is not a “prudish, puritanical” society.