About nudity

[The Grand Nudger]

Protection from the sun and wind is just as important.  If you don;t wrap up like a mummy in the desert..your ass is gonna die.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

*shrug*  People who have a problem with public nudity shouldn't sit next to me on the bus in the first place.

Boru

[brewer]

Once you reach a certain age you'll find that others (and yourself) don't really want to see it anyway.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Once you reach a certain age you'll find that others (and yourself) don't really want to see it anyway.

And that's their problem.

[The Valkyrie]

Once you reach a certain age you'll find that others (and yourself) don't really want to see it anyway.

Well,if you didn't keep breaking into their houses...

[Angrboda]

Human sexuality is all about access. We wear wedding rings and undergo marriage rituals as a way of socially marking certain potential partners as forever "off limits". We deny certain others access so that we can grant it to others. It's all about control of one's sexual resources.

[johan]

Because we are the only "animals" with the intelligence to have an awareness of nakedness and sexuality, and to be sexually aroused by seeing the opposite sex' genitalia. 

Bolded part is incorrect. It is taught and thought by many that humans are the only species of animals (note the lack of quotes, that's how you're supposed to write it) that have sex for pleasure. This is completely false. Actually the exact opposite is true. Humans are the only species of animals that (when they choose to) have sex strictly for procreation. It is impossible for any species besides humans to have sex strictly for procreation because humans are the only species that have sex education classes. 

When a bull mounts a cow, neither participant has any clue that as a result of this act, a calve will come out of that orifice a few months down the road. Therefore it is very likely that the only reason other species have sex is because it feels good for at least one of the participants (which is not entirely different from my own sex life but I digress). 

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Babies don't have this awareness or this sentiment, which explains why they don't care about being naked or seeing others naked.

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Correct. Which means it is a taught behavior. Which means we could remove the phenomena entirely from our culture within just a few generations if we simply stopped teaching it to our children.

[brewer]

Once you reach a certain age you'll find that others (and yourself) don't really want to see it anyway.

Well,if you didn't keep breaking into their houses...

I'm more of a press up against the glass kind of guy. As you squish things they tend to look bigger and it presses out the wrinkles plus obscures the fat.

[Whateverist]

Once you reach a certain age you'll find that others (and yourself) don't really want to see it anyway.

And that's their problem.

Yeah, caring less is some compensation.

[Anomalocaris]

Humans are the only animals on Earth who produce clothes. Other animals may wear clothing only if we dress them up. Also humans are the only animals who feel ashamed if not wearing clothes. Why are we ashamed of our own bodies? Babies don't feel ashamed if naked and there have been tribes that wear little to no clotes. 
Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that we should stop wearing clothes, they protect us from high or low temperatures, filth and other things and they can look good (what looks good is subjective, of course). But should we feel ashamed if it happens to be seen naked?

1.  We are the only animals with the manual dexterity to produce cloth.  So it seems a little odd to harp on the fact that no other animals wear cloth.  No other animals can come to possess cloth except through our intervention or truly freakish coincidence.

2.  Actually, there seems to be no conclusive evidence I remember seeing presented that any other animal is capable of being ashamed.  So again it seems a little odd to harp on the fact that no other animal would be ashamed of nakedness.  They are incapable of being ashamed of anything.

3.  I don’t recall seeing any evidence that Amazonian Stone Age tribes that go naked all the time all throughout life feel ashamed all the time.  So I would not say we unavoidably and reflexively feel ashamed if we are seen naked.  

However, I would not go as far as saying feeling ashamed of nakedness is truly a completely social phenomenon either.   Many of the situational emotions our society encourages us to feel actually seem to have at least some basis in some deeper cognative pre-programming.   The pre-programming does not doom us to feel a certain way in a certain situation.  But it may give us some slight pre-disposition to feeling a certain way that could then either be encouraged or discouraged by social pressure.

Genetic evidence from the species of lice that are unique to humans offer strong evidence that our relative lack of body hair is quite an ancient trait in the human lineage, and that clothing is not all that recent an invention either.    It certainly seems to me there have been enough time since the widespread adaptation of clothing for certain behavior involving clothing, like a discomfort with being seen naked when one is not in the mood to show off, to have acquired some deeper genetic basis.