Nudity Shouldn't Be Taboo

[simonsebs]

Nudity Shouldn't Be Taboo (http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/08/26/nudity-shouldnt-be-taboo)

No it should not.

[Agde]

Nudity Shouldn't Be Taboo (http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/08/26/nudity-shouldnt-be-taboo)
No it should not.

Perhaps worth noting that this article was posted on SOP ("The Student Operated Press (http://thesop.org/index.php?page=about_thesop)") which is a website for young journalists. See also their comment on the Met arrest (http://thesop.org/crazyworld/2009/08/27/model-strips-at-museum-performance-art-or-outrageous-behavior). More evidence that the arriving generation has different attitudes toward nudity???

[Lord Drakkus]

Society, don`t be so afraid. Don`t be so ashamed. Don`t try so hard to constrain people, and don`t allow yourself to be constrained. It`s okay to be naked. It`s nice to be naked. It`s admirable to be naked.


And in the words of Pope John Paul II:

"The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty... Nakedness, as such, is not to be equated with physical shamelessness."


One of the best quotes I've ever seen about nudity... wow


More evidence that the arriving generation has different attitudes toward nudity???
Do you really need it? The evidence for that is everywhere.

[Stu2630]

More evidence that the arriving generation has different attitudes toward nudity?

Yup, we can see it on the decline in toplessness and nudity on European beaches and a far greater body self-consciousness than we have seen in preceeding decades and the closure of so many nudist places. Compared to the 1960s, and even the 1980s, we have entered a New Age of prudishness. :D

In all seriousness, though, there is "evidence" in both directions - it depends where you look. So-called "progressive" commentators will always advocate any moves towards the liberalization on the acceptance of nudity - they always have. But they are in a tiny, almost fringe, minority and the main public attitudes, i.e. that it's not acceptable to wander around exposing your private parts in public, have changed little since the 1950s. Thankfully, there is little evidence of such a monumental shift being underway in people's sensibilities concerning nudity.

Nudists would do better to focus on campaining for more and better locations and opportunities to enjoy their nudism. That would be far more productive than looking for the feint signs of such shifts in the textile majority, and then exaggerating their significance. These signs are, for the most part, either transient, illusory, or both.

Stu

[riptidenj]

I agree that there has been little real change in attitude even among the younger generations. People are to quick to seize on one or two incidents and cite them as evidence
of new trends.
Here in NJ the number of nude beaches was halved with the closing of Higby Beach in Galloway Township while the number of nudist venues has gone from 8 in the 1960s to 3 today.

[Agde]

...that it's not acceptable to wander around exposing your private parts in public, have changed little since the 1950s...

Yup, some people are stuck in the '50s -- the 1850s.