Perpetual nudity versus a perpetual Burka

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Perpetual nudity versus a perpetual Burka

#13920220 - 02/07/11 10:17 AM (15 years, 8 months ago)

I enjoy hypothetical questions like this, and an article I read yesterday got me to thinking about the variety of reasons people so thoroughly hide their bodies and the reasoning behind it. For the sake of this post, I'm not considering little black dresses , lingerie, and other sorts of seldom-worn decorative attire that serves the purpose of accentuating and celebrating the human form.

Few things feel as good as the freedom of foregoing clothing; our daily experiences constantly illustrate this through restriction and chafing, from boxers/briefs creeping up our cracks (and then requiring less-than-tactful yanking out), having to 'adjust' your (male) junk to avoid the discomfort of anatomy suddenly demanding space your pants simply don't have to ask, and so on. And by their very nature, garments rob people of enjoying the feeling of the breeze on most of their skin.

I understand the necessity of clothing in the winter, obviously. I used to also find merit in the argument, "if nobody wore clothes [on nice days] then we'd all wish we were blind due to all of the "fat" or "ugly" people we would witness every day. I no longer find that argument compelling and on examination I think that it lacks merit almost entirely; that argument reminds me of kingergarden children attempting to elicit shallow, ultimately meaningless exclamations of "eww" and "that's sross!" without considering the rather compelling reason to get healthy (get in shape) that would manifest very strongly in this sort of situation.

I wonder how most people view clothing? Obviously, I take a practical point of view and see garments merely as tools to keep skin warm, protect it from the sun/elements, and in rare cases to show respect (funerals, classes, pricey restaurants). The main thrust of this post, therefore, concerns a scenario where we all lived in a world that was never too cold or too hot or humid for one's skin to serve as the only necessary "garment" - for example, the ozone layer would need to be robust enough to significantly reduce the incidence of sun-related diseases. If the Earth were to become this type of world tomorrow, would most people spend decades (or centuries?) stubbornly advocating the practce of (pardon the pun) religiously clothing ourselves? Would you be driven by modesty, harboring shame about your bodies, thinking of yourself as "dirty" or "unclean" or "uncivilized"? By hiding/covering yourselves, would you suddenly feel like the body you have been taught to be ashamed of has disappeared - replaced by 'clean', 'appropriate', 'natural' ABERCROMBIE? - or would you take advantage of the skin-comfortable world and leave all of that unnecessary, expensive, bashfulness-perpetuating clothing at home?

I don't find it difficult to imagine that in this hypothetical clothing-optional/unnecessary world, people would have far more compelling reasons to eat healthy, work out, and stay in shape - all things experts agree are extremely healthy - in order to BE healthy, be capable of participating in all the outdoor activities our society is rapidly moving indoors, and - of course - in order to have a physique that makes people feel physically fit and attractive and emotionally comfortable with themselves.

So, in a world where the weather and temperatures caused clothing to lack virtually any usefulness, would modesty win out in your case? For the sake of argument, let's imagine that the only clothing available to purchase for those wishing to cover themselves were burkas - the kind where only the eyes are visible. Would modesty trump comfort for some of you? Would irrational shame and loathing of your body make you among the first to make a mad dash to the market to stock up on burkas? Would you be more interested in hiding the natural beauty of the human body - the beauty of YOUR body (IMO the most beautiful object in nature - be it male or female) with uncomfortable and arbitrary pieces of cloth, or would you shed your no-longer-necessary garments and celebrate the magnificence of your body by respecting it at the gym, becoming more acutely aware of your diet, and shedding eons of cumulative shame heaped on your shoulders from the time you were a toddler?

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." - Carl Sagan

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