RE: Some Gays Can Go Straight, Study Says
March 27, 2023 at 9:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2023 at 9:22 am by The Architect Of Fate.)
(March 27, 2023 at 3:18 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: If the past history of the Y isn't enough for you, look into present-day nudist/naturist resorts or organizations. The funny thing is that, once you get past the fact that everyone's naked, the activities there are almost aggressively sexless (And, yes, this was disappointing for a teenaged Reverend to find out.) There are a few exceptions, but, naturally, they're rare.Americans are just hyper-puritanical when it comes to nudity. As long as no one trying to harm anybody else. Who the heck cares?
Or, indeed, you can look at places like the Netherlands. Go to any beach, there's a nudist section. Go to the park (or a college campus, or even an apartment complex where you can see balconies) on a sunny day, women are sunbathing topless. Turn on the TV, if there's nudity, it will be uncensored (except on the Evangelical channel and maybe a few others.) It's common enough in films that nude scenes (at least non-sexual nude scenes) don't even factor into the ratings system. So, a film could include lots of nudity, but if it's non-sexual, it could still meet the standards equivalent to a G rating.
Funny thing, this video about Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers by a film YouTuber I've been following for over a decade also goes into quite a bit of detail about how Dutch culture is open to nudity in ways that can alarm Americans (particularly past the 30 minute mark):
The scene where everybody was showering together in that movie? It wasn't there to titillate audiences. It was there because the director is from a culture where that sort of thing is no big deal (Hell, he even stripped off himself when the time came to film it.)
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–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM