Is the average American's fear of nudist beaches just a different degree of the Muslim fear of female nudity?

Question

Have religious Americans any right to criticize Muslims when the difference is just a matter of degree? The healthy relaxed safe beaches of Australia, Brazil and Europe, to name a few, confirm the backwardness of Americans who feel so ashamed of their own bodies.
The sad fact is that most of those who answer here
have never been to a nude beach and don't know what they are talking about.

Answer 1

No, I don't think they have anything to do with each other.

Muslim women do not believe they should let strangers view their bodies - it is for their husbands and family only.

We do not have many nude beaches in America because we think of nudity as sexually provocative and beaches are for families. We do not expose our children to sexually provocative things supposedly -although we certainly do on TV and in the clothing we allow our children to wear.

And just so you know - I have been to plenty of nude beaches in my lifetime - in Michigan, New York, California, Canada, and England.

Answer 2

That is an interesting way to put it and there is a logical basis for what you have said.

Muslims believe that you should cover yourself, if you are a woman. This belief is based on Religion. A different but similar religion, Christianity, preaches that nudity is wrong. Both of these beliefs are based on the same thing, religion.

Personally, I have no problem with nudity. I prefer that my 3 year old and my 5 year old see boobies in an R rated movie than bloody guts and brains being splattered across the pavement by machine guns in a PG movie. I never saw how violence is OK for a child to watch, but seeing a naked body is so horrible.

Maybe if the kids at Columbine saw more porn they would have only bought a hooker instead of going on a killing spree.... but I digress.

Having lived and worked abroad, many people see America as "too religious". So I can see your point about the nude beaches.

Answer 3

It's not about decency, it isn't about morality, and it has alot to do with social stigmata. We in our western American culture love to see man as weak to their sexuality. Look at our tv, for loves sake, everything is sexualized, BUT we have a conservative environment. We have strip clubs NEXT to churches. We have Newsweek, next to barly legal. Its because of this ideal that man are weak to their sexuality that we believe deep down we can not have this here. It isn't because they are seen as amoral (the nudist) as much as man in our society are allowed to be amoral. Its the facts, look around American, were not like most countries because of this underlining fact. Well alot of other countries treat it different. But in order for nudity to work it most be accepted that man can stare at a naked body and be able to control himself. Which is accepted in other countries, not in ours. Yes its not true, but this sort of weakness is accepted even if it isn't true.... but go ahead believe its becasue we don't think nudist are moral, its easier that way......

Answer 4

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