Nudity is not a porn!
Nudity is inherent in humans for obvious reasons. We are born naked, and we add nothing to be naked. Naked is our natural state, and we alter ourselves to be clothed. Actually, when we were children, we were allowed to run around without any clothes on. The people didn't feel that children shouldn't be nude or that our nudity was sexual in any way. We, as a society, choose how sexual we find nudity. And in the United States, nudity is very sexual. We over-sexualize nudity so much, that wearing tight clothes that show off your figure will make people gossip about you. There are even rude people who make fun of women with large breasts, even if her large breasts are entirely covered. We are very juvenile over here in the United States when it comes to nudity. But we need to understand that nudity is not porn, it is life. In this article, we are going to examine why we feel that nudity is sexual, and what we can do to combat thinking this way.
Oversexualization
Why do other countries like Ireland, France, Italy, the UK, and other countries in Europe seem to have a healthy grasp on nudity? It looks like the US does not. America is over-obsessed with nudity and sexualizing it. Like the European countries I named, America is based in western civilization. So when did the big nudity divide start? Most likely, over-sexualization began with one of our founding groups during the years of the 13 colonies, the puritans. They were a rigorous religious group that also gave America it's hard work ethic and its mindset that everything about you can be improved. We must seek to understand what American society gains from believing that nudity is sexual. But one of the biggest paradoxes about American life is that it is much more acceptable to watch gratuitous amounts of violence, death, and gore than to watch a single sex scene, When this situation is brought up, it baffles Europeans on how violence is okay, but the nation will forever be shocked at seeing a breast on the television. Even in movies, the people who have sex arent completely nude. Oftentimes, the woman is shown from waist up or the back view of her buttocks is shown. The man's lower body is never shown, and in the few movies it is shown, the film is rated NC-17. So, even in the sexualization hierarchy, the man is above the woman, and his sexuality is more protected.
A classic scenario
While nudity and the naked body is not inherently sexual, as the naked body is just itself without its clothes on. If the viewer wishes to look upon a naked person and see them in the sexual light, that is their choice. But that is not the nude person's choice. The person without clothes on did nothing to suggest that they were sexual in any way. The gazer forced their will upon the naked person and added their own take on the situation. So what is the responsibility of the viewer to watch how they sexualize those who are not being sexual. They must also understand what their sexual triggers are. It is unfair of a person to project their will upon someone and then get mad at that person for making them project their will upon them. The nude person asked for none of this. They were merely nude.
Women on display everywhere
Now here's where America and Europe's nudity device gets even more prominent. America has advertising displays everywhere. And under those displays, there are plenty of scantily clad women posing in pictures on buses on billboards and on streets. Are nude women or partially closed women used to sell a lot of products? There is a saying in advertising. Sex sells. And because of this, it is very common to see slightly sexualized advertisements. But why is it okay for these women I'm posters in Billboards to be semi-nude, but a woman walking down the street cannot be semi-nude? Is it because her nudity is her own while the women in the posters' nudity are for a purpose?
Nude colonies
Created in the seventies as a reaction against over-sexualization, these people meant to reunite people with their bodies, nude colonies are here to stay. People who join nude colonies also walk around naked in their own homes. They don't feel a sense of shame that the rest of the country thinks about being naked and not having a sense of power.. Nude colonies have become so popular that they are even entire nude beaches. Now, of course, nude colonies and nude beaches do not force you to take off any clothing you don't want to. They do not, in reverse, sexualize being clothed. In recent years nude colonies are going all across the world. There are dozens of groups or clubs in Europe, along with dozens of nude beaches and even some nude restaurants. There are a few clubs and beaches in North America, and some might be coming to Asia. A nude group or nude colony is simply a meeting of high minded people who don't attach nudity to sex.
In conclusion
When it comes to being okay with nudity, even in our own homes, America has some strides to make. Unity is not inherently sexual or pornographic. Like I said before, we were born nude, and we will die nude. There's no reason to stigmatize it so much. The stigmatization of nudity could possibly lead to low self-esteem, as people are not allowed to appreciate their bodies without thinking of them in a sexual nature. And we must understand why women are not allowed to be nude for their own purposes, but companies can rent out their nudity for their own purposes? None of these answers are easy, but if we are patient and observant, we can discover the solutions and find a way to break the cycle of sexualization.