Is shame of nudity something that we are born with or is it something we must be taught?

Question

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Anyone who has ever read a National Geographic is probably aware that there are people in this world who walk around naked all the time, and without any shame whatsoever.

Any parent knows that very young kids don't mind running around naked. It's only after they get older that they begin to have shame, after they've been taught by their parents to be ashamed.

Answer 1

It depends on how small your pecker is.

If it's small, it's natural to be ashamed.

Answer 2

You don't have kids, do you? If you did u would know that at certain ages, most kids will take off their clothes every chance they get. Then, if you don't make them put their clothes on, you get called a heathen or a bad mother and the officials come after you. Isn't it more 'cultural' than anything else? Think about it. Our USofA has become more censorious than India, and prolly at least as bad as China. (And you know btw; National Geographic is still considered a 'dirty' magazine by some weird nellies.)

Answer 3

sounds like a spoof television programme to me. heavily inspite of the ordinary actuality that, I see no longer some thing incorrect in being to the international as God made you, and there is no longer some thing inherently unclean with regard to the bare human physique. inspite of the reality that, Jews do have fairly countless purification rules, with the purpose to maintain their cleanliness. that's greater to do with public hygene than faith, and Moses grew to develop into in keeping with threat the forerunner of public hygene that has served the Jews exact. One substantial factor whilst partaking in social nudity is cleanliness of concept, so as that at no time do lustful recommendations be allowed to wreck or intrude on the wellbeing of others. Nor do I see any conflict between communal living and a great form of of the main well liked religions of the international, which contain Judaism. The recommendations and practices of Karl Marx have been fairly strongly atheist, yet you do no longer could prefer to be a follower of Karl Marx to stay communally. Monasteries and Kibbutzim long predate Karl Marx.

Answer 4

It is considered to be socially unacceptable, so that is why we usually do not run around au natural. It is something that we learn subtly as we grow older, and it is understood to be wrong. I personally don't see anything wrong with it, except for that most people give it a sexual undertone, and that is where the problems start.

Answer 5

Shame of nudity is what society attempts along with christianity to engrain into you. With some it stays and others just throw off the shackles of idiocy and go naked. I know I have.

Answer 6

You've answered your own question. A fear of the naked human body is definitely something learned not inherited. It seems strange that in Europe violence in the media is looked down upon but nudity is not and in the US it is just the opposite. We in the US are especially uptight and censored in our views of nudity and sex.

Answer 7

The examples you've shown are pretty clear evidence that the moral attitude of shame is a learned thing.

I just wonder how long it will take us to teach a similar shame for the ignorance of speaking and the lies of spreading God-belief.

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Answer 8

In the US, it's mandatory that you think any and all forms of nudity should be viewed in a sexual manner, thus making the displays wrong and illegal. This ensures an enormous network of repressed peope who will express themselves in harmful ways.

Answer 9

Maybe with sin comes the shame of nakedness?
Before sin:

Genesis 2:25
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

After sinning:

Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

But obviously God wants us to be modest so it won't cause others to lust and sin. The Bible calls us to be modest and God also made clothing for Adam and Eve out of animals skins after they sinned.

Answer 10

It's learned behaviour, of course. Except for the instinctive urge to protect ones genitals and other vulnerable parts when threatened.

Answer 11

My 2 and 5 year old kids can show you that it is certainly a learned response, which they have yet to learn.