Given a minimum of covering genitals and anus in stores and restaurants, as well as allowing businesses to operate with a minimum dress code for employees, people are now allowed to be completely naked in public. How would society work with this? Would you be one of the folks who just wander around naked all day long?
Edit: Used a very wrong word, fixed it.
This is already the case in large parts of the world, and it changes almost nothing.
People mostly still dress the same regardless.
The reality is that people don’t need to be forced to wear clothes. That’s almost always their preference.
For example, public nudity is legal in Washington state, but other than at nude beaches or rare public events (such as the Fremont solstice parade), you never see anyone naked. Even toplessness is rare, even with men.
*genitals. “gentiles” means non-Jewish people. I know there’s a joke in there somewhere.
As for this hypothetical society, it exists today in a few parts of Africa and some island tribes, and you might count nudist communities as well. I think you would get used to it pretty quickly.
I don’t know how to spell, or use the correct words.
As long as some don’t want to see nudity in public, most, out of consideration, will also avoid it. Even if nudity was universally accepted, people would wear something to carry their phones, money, and keys. They’d want to advertise their social status. And clothes provide protection. Would you want to sit in a recently vacated seat on the subway if the last person was naked? Or imagine parking your nude bottom on a bench that’s been in the sun for a while.
Others I’m sure have their own opinion, but this is always one of those things my horny brain is like, “hell yeah,” and my post-nut brain is like, “absolutely not” haha
Sure, there are nudist colonies and cultures around the world where it’s considered normal, but for everyone else I think it would not be that great.
Do yourself a favour and go to a nudist beach or a nude resort.
Spend some time there. Meet some people and chat.
Being naked is not sexual. We sexualize nakedness because we are usually taught from very young age to always be dressed and seeing exposed skin feels… naughty. When it really isn’t.
A nudist/clothing optional society would work like any other. If nudist, it would probably have lot less taboos. But keep in mind clothes also have a practical side to it.
There is a utilitarian value to clothing.
Pre Nut brain would have most guys walking around stiff all day
Not everywhere, e.g in restaurants. Imagine a knife or a fork falling on your balls or curry goes into your vagina
Ouch
Yeah exactly, I would never ever want to cook naked.
Or try to get into a hot car. Or go hiking (poison ivy). Or go outside at all (mosquitos). Or open a fridge (it’s just cold :().
On absolutely no proof, I feel like clothing probably evolved as more of a protective measure than a privacy thing at first, regardless of the Abrahamic stories. Shit gets too hot, or too cold, or otherwise too exposed to the elements.
As person that is fan of psytrance festival, I am very positive, letting people dress (or not) however they want.
Thing is, society will always pressure people to follow norm, and that can be problematic in any way (socially force to show or conceal body).
If we would be able to change not only law which goes fast, but also society thinking about clothing which needs centuries, we could definitely achieve a state where society could live with it (I mean, if it was historically given that some just wear nothing sometimes)
I think, it would also require a change on how humanity thinks about the act of reproduction and how humanity is handling STDs. Maybe, in such a frame, the pre-nut-wood would not be an issue…
