(January 29, 2014 at 9:59 am)FreeTony Wrote: Anyway, I was thinking: Is this a religious idea, or something that pre-dated religion/ is part of human nature? Obviously you've got the Adam and Eve story, so whoever wrote that must have already had the idea of sexual shame.Clothes probably were developed long before religious nuts became obsessed with controlling everyone's sex life. Or at least that makes sense to me, since clothes had other benefits (at least for those who were living in less temperate climes).
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