Is nudity wrong?

[cantata]

What is nudity? Baring one's breasts counts as nudity in most Western cultures, but not in various small indigenous communities around the world (particularly those in hot places). A woman exposing her hair is considered immodest in some places; the soles of the feet are obscene in others.

Personally I find Western attitudes towards breasts extremely irritating. I get very jealous of men being allowed to walk around shirtless when it's hot, and I also hate the way that those attitudes have made things like public breastfeeding an embarrassment for a lot of mothers. There was an advert being shown in cinemas throughout Europe a couple of years ago featuring ordinary people engaging in various everyday interactions. One of these little scenes was a woman breastfeeding. In Britain, and nowhere else, the nipple was airbrushed out. This made me really angry! By airbrushing the nipple, it was like they were hinting that there was something obscene about breastfeeding - a hint which is far more obscene than the nipple ever was.

I recently watched a documentary called This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It's about the organisation responsible for applying ratings to films in America, the MPAA. This organisation seems really freaked out by nudity. Woman getting her fake breast torn out in a horror film? Rated R. A glimpse of pubic hair in a monogamous, committed, consensual, heterosexual sex scene? Rated NC-17. Really, genitals are not scary, and I have no idea why we should go to such great lengths to shield children or anyone else from the sight of them.

/rant

 

[.Sabre.]

I agree with cantata. We shouldn't be scared of our bodies.

I think public nudity should be legal.

 

[strobeef]

I guess it comes down to the time & place. To be naked in a crowded public place has no appeal to me, right or wrong. But I like to see and be seen and outdoor recreation is especially heathy and relaxing and doesn't necessarily have any thing to with the sexual sins God talks about in the Word.