Other cultures encourage women to express themselves and
showing their bodies (perfect or not). Why is the US so different?
2006-08-09 00:34:08 · 14 answers · asked by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
There are subcultures in the USA where open sexuality, and even open seduction, have been prized. If you read one of the histories of the 1960s Commune movement (including those where the guys were expected to take to bed a different girl every time, and it was intended that nobody know which guy was the father of any of the kids) you will get the point. See also http://www.xfamily.org -- the history of the Children of God where open sexuality, sensuality and pubescent sex were encouraged.
American naturism has a proud history, and it is naive to think it has not been connected with open sexuality, although "mainstream" naturism certainly doesn't permit it (i.e., an erection is supposed to be an embarrassment). But likewise there is a subculture. Just as nude dance parties, and what inevitably results, has long been part of American collegiate culture. And Spring Break.
There are, of course, regional differences. Some states have nude beache, others not. (Note that nudity is far more common when away from home -- say in the Caribbean -- than somewhere where your neighbors might see you. Part of this is due to the Scotch-Irish Protestant (Puritan) prudity that has kept Victorian values alive and well in public, but obsolete in private.
I've seen plenty of American women disrobe on European, West African and Caribbean beaches. And, today, there is a wide acceptance for things that even in the wild 60s were little seen. Almost nobody gets prosecuted for "sex crimes" or sodomy in same-age consensual incidents. Or for exhibitionism that is objectively inoffensive (i.e, not on prime time TV, in front of the children, etc.)
2006-08-09 00:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because the US, unlike Europe, still has very strong Christian roots, which frowns upon open and liberal sexuality.
2006-08-09 00:36:57 · answer #2 · answered by John Rae 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 10:17:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Family culture is one reason.In religions society sex outside is immoral. It is good that USA culture respect moral values.
2006-08-09 00:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by snashraf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is plenty of female nudity in the US.
Playboy is a multi-million dollar empire!
2006-08-09 00:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Americans are descendants of the prudes of Europe who left for religious reasons. :p
2006-08-09 00:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to be kidding. Right?
About the only thing we don't do here is to show nipples on billboards.
2006-08-09 00:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Americans never got over victorian sensibilities.
2006-08-09 00:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
006 is right. The Puritans may have all died out but their sense of morality lives on...
2006-08-09 00:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by Steffi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
these culture doesn't matter.
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2006-08-09 00:47:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋