Why do people have such a problem with nudity?

Answer 1

Nudity in public is called indeicent exposure. Nobody wants to be that.So everyone wears clothes and undress mainly for sex. therefore, the two are associated together.
I was born on a small island in the North Sea called Sylt.. It was all nude beaches. People came from all parts of Europe to vacation there.
My older brothers and sisters didn't wear clothes very often in the summer until they went to school.
My mother put clothes on my brother when he was small once and he came home nude. He'd buried his clothes in the sand dunes.She said he had to wear clothes, so she put my sisters dress on him because he had to get buns at the bakers just down the street. (It was his daily morning chore)
When he came into the shop, the lady(a good friend of our family) commented on the nice dress he had on. I guess he agreeded with her, then lifted up the dress exclaiming "Yes, but no pants!"
Nudity is all in how you are raised with it.
Our family is not shy about it at home and probably not in public if it wasn't such a big issue.
My kids never wore clothes at the lake when they were toddlers and a woman came over to me upset that my 2 year old was naked in public.
I told her that he was just a baby and if he turned her on, she had a problem. It shut her up and made me sad, because the innocence of nudity would be over for us.

Answer 2

First of all, many people only get naked for two reasons; to shower/bathe or have sex, so...they simply cannot imagine why anyone would want to be naked and comfortable if they're not doing one of those two things.

Second, it's a matter of self-image. Because of the effect of advertising on society, people are self-conscious about their bodies, instead of accepting the fact that only a small percentage of people have bodies like models.

Social nudity has been around for much longer in Europe, and has gained a lot more popularity here in the USA within the last few decades.

Answer 3

Alot of people don't. It's just that in a society such as the US, that makes seeing brests such taboo and talking about sex so off limits, you get this paranoia about nudity. It has alot to do with religion and a close minded attitude. Go to many other countries in the world and seeing a topless woman on the beach doesn't send people scrambling to call the police because they are offended by seeing skin. Horror of horrors --- skin!!!! Run, its skin!! Grow up people. We all have it!!

Answer 4

You can thank Eve for this one.

I honestly contribute the problem with nudity (in the us, as an example) as part of the Christian agenda. As they are now agaist (and have always been) nudity, sex, nudity SEX..anything in that nature.

So, since most Americans are Christians, they teach their kids that nudity, being naked, sex, intamcy is bad and the work of the devil. And the domino effect goes on.

I wouldn't really say there is a problem with how people veiw themselves. Because you can walk around a nude beach and see people who are VERY secure with themselvs, and well...should be covered up. But the taboo that society has put on us has yet to fade. Now we have the Liberal government bannign everything that someone calss "Offensive, dirty, immoral, ect.." instead of letting the masses decide what they can and cannot watch (same goes for parents flitering what their kids watch..) ANd then that boils down to personal responsiblity.

Answer 5

that would be because too many americans are too close minded. they are raised ignorant to believe nudity = sex. we are going backward as a country not becoming more enlightened but more closed off and stubburn in our old fashion ways.

there is nothing wrong with a nude body. nothing at all. it is natural and beautiful and simple. all the evil things placed on it were done in the name of decency or in other words the church.

Answer 6

this is true in the united states only. our nation was and still is based on puitanical foundations. the scarlet letter is the unwritten law of the land.
i do belong to a nudist community. naked bodies are jsut naked bodies. people who engage in this lifestyle are not sex-craved, pedophiles, rapists, etc. they're just normal fat and thin, short and tall people.
in the nude you are not judged. everyone is free and equal. people feel more at ease, less stressed, and totally liberated. being naked is an enjoyable experience that has received way too much bad press.
it's not crude or rude to be nude.

Answer 7

I think it is because they want to appear to be riteous. But usually the ones who are having the biggest hissy fit about it are the ones peeking through the Playboy and Playgirl magazines in their closet. Hypocrites. The human body is a beautiful thing. Nudity is not sex. It is not immoral to be in the nude.

Answer 8

Because of social morals and values. It is OK to be nude in the privacy of your own home, or at a nudest beach.
The problem like others have said stem from how a person is brought up.

Answer 9

For thousands of years the nude human has ONLY been associated with the sexually active human. Somewhere in the evolution of human culture being naked came to be the same as having sex. And somewhere else along the line, sex became a taboo subject as well.

So even though a naked man or a naked woman or a naked child might be naked for any number of reasons-poverty, joy in the warm weather, comfort, or caught unaware, the first reaction in all culturally trained humans is to think about sex, and THEN, to assume that said sex MUST be innapropriate.

A nude human is one in his/her natural state, but societal pressure and training makes everyone see that natural state as inherently wrong.

"A naked person! They must be in some sort of immoral sex act, or at least about to be!" the mind thinks.

It's a shame. I wouldn't mind being nude at a beach, but anyone who saw me would think I was a pervert-just for being naked.

Answer 10

People are used to whatever they grow up with. Most modern societies wear clothes, so that's what they are comfortable with.

Tribal societies seem comfortable with nudity.