And I, a monocle.
Because I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly.
Isn’t there something to be said for leaving stuff to the imagination?
I mean, there are some people who don’t have good-looking bodies. But they have beautiful/handsome faces and have other attractive qualities, like winsome personalities and physical grace. Covering up their bodies allows people to see their best attributes first, rather than just as an afterthought.
In the book “Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia”, the author describes how females are invisible to men until they put on the hijab. As soon as their body is covered up, they become sexy.
I love how counterintuitive this is, but understandable. We want what we can’t have, and desire to see what’s hidden from us.
It’s time to turn up the sexy… BRING ME MY NINJA ATTIRE!
Another thing, after the invention of clothes, or maybe even the loin cloth (god bless the loin cloth)… fashion was born. As I said above, clothes can actually make you more attractive. Fashion is the art of this, styles and trends aside, its hallmarks are accentuating or shaping the “landscape” of the body beyond what bare skin can do alone.
People with perfect bodies ( Giselle Bundchen, Michael Phelps) look great without clothes.
most people don’t.:eek:
This! ^ I don’t have boners to conceal because I’m female, but I like your response.
Imagine this: Human buck naked sitting on the subway after having a BM and not wiping thoroughly. Others sitting in the same spot after said human gets up. No thank you. For me, there’s the hygiene aspect and the fact that I like to feel warm, AND that I really don’t care to look at EVERYONE nude regardless of looks, size…etc.
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain.
That said, phooey. I think an advanced technological civilization such as ours, based on liberty, individuality, freedom, and rights, should legalize public nudity. Most of the reasons against it are either religious or aesthetic, and it is a really poor society that legislates aesthetics. We permit people with ugly faces to walk around in public; why is it so different regarding their ugly bellies and butts?
Some people say that our civil rights are “natural rights.” Well, what could be more natural than nudity?
And for the government to demand I cover myself – and not pay for the coverings – is an “unfunded mandate!” Tyranny, I sez!
Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People” is an image of the first step in the direction of the overthrow of this social evil. How far is it, really, from “You must wear trousers” to “You must wear a burkha or hijab?”
Take if off…for freedom! Support the right to Bare Everything.
(“I can plainly see you’re nuts…”)
We shouldn’t. That’s why your argument is flawed.
An apparently serious campaign: Free the Nipple
I can just imagine sitting in a crowded restaurant, rubbing cheeks with a sweaty naked 20 stone guy, while eating my Frankfurter, trying to ignore the pendulous breasts of the old woman across the table.
Plus, where would I put all the stuff I usually carry in my pockets? Please don’t suggest I buy a purse.
I’m troubled by all the boys I see ashamed of their nudity in the locker room.
I’d say about 10% of the boys have no trouble being nude with the remainder doing the ‘under the towel’ shuffle getting out of their swim trunks. I don’t understand why they are so shy/ashamed. We all have the same bits. I just hope this doesn’t translate into some sort of societal neurosis down the road.
Aw. I googled The Naked Guy, from Berkeley. I remember when he first hit the news. The end of his life was sad, though. I’d never heard about that.
Apparently when you google “naked berkeley biker” there are twenty links to annual naked bike rides that come up before The Naked Guy’s wiki link does. So there’s more naked biking happening than I’d realized.
Or, they do what strippers do and trim the string. (You didn’t think strippers stayed at home one week a month, did you? 
)
Oh, also, I blame the Puritans. For everything.
Then you have the sub-continent. People will go up in arms if you as much as show a glimps of a woman’s leg, but bare midriff? Meh.
Wearing clothes is not the same thing as being ashamed of one’s body. I wear clothes whenever I’m out in public and most of the time when I’m at home, but I’m not ashamed of my body. Similarly I only shave at home, never in public. It’s not because I’m ashamed of shaving, but because that’s what feels natural and comfortable.
On the question of why “we” as a society still wear clothes, perhaps it’s because history gives us examples of societies where clothes were the norm and societies where they weren’t, and the clothed societies seem to function better. Regarding why women can’t go shirtless in public, most women prefer it that way. Even in countries where it’s legal for women to go shirtless, few do.
and here I was with all this toast…<sigh>
I’ve only been to nude beaches a few times in my life. And while you’re right that the women mostly didn’t look like Victoria’s Secret models, they were with few exceptions an improvement on the scenery.
And if they weren’t, so what? Other people exist for their own purposes, not for mine. If I see a woman at a nude beach that I wouldn’t want to fuck if she were the last woman alive, that’s my problem and not hers.
Well, I do have this as a recurring dream.