# Cloned humans raised without parents. They grow to do?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921 "2025-04-11T17:59:44Z")\
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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> Except that actual humans living in hot tropical environments do wear clothes.  
> […snip…]  
> even if it’s only penis sheaths

I would consider penis sheaths decoration, and not clothes. Same-same for belts.

> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> Basically what I’m wondering is whether the invention of physical modesty is essential in some way to humans

In what universe are penis sheaths “modesty”? They’re as braggy as a Tudor codpiece.

It’s also noteworthy that we were anatomically modern, but nude, for tens or hundreds of thousand years, before we started wearing clothing: [Lice study dates first clothing at 170,000 years – Research News](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/lice-study-dates-first-clothing-at-170000-years/)

> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> [Here](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1868823/).

Ta.

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