Public Nudity: Why it's Socially Shunned

Society as a whole has grown uncomfortable towards nudity. We associate nudity to promiscuous and shameful things. Yet if we never had that mindset, then nudity would be acceptable in public. Because of my experiences in the dormitory, it is safe to say that people grow comfortable around each other. Thus, it all depends on the comfort level of yourself and everyone around yourself. In the end, it doesn't matter whether or not you just got out of a shower and your towel droops too low, or if you were changing and somebody suddenly barges into the room. Ultimately, we humans have grown accustomed to associate nudity with comfort level, which directly affects people's views on the subject matter.

The public has grown use to accepted norms, and anything outside of that is looked down upon. For one thing, nudity should not be something you are ashamed of. We were born nude, and for years before civilization, there was no such thing as clothing. The associations we humans make between nudity and civility is a skewed perspective that everyone has come to base their lives around.

True, clothing protects our private areas from certain harm, but clothing nowadays is viewed in another way. When people have sex, clothing is viewed as an addition to the experience. Why did we invent such things as lingerie? It's because people have made clothing into a promiscuity of nudity. Nudity has such bad connotations these days because societal media chooses to portray it to the masses.

We shouldn't even be ashamed of nudity and neither should we associate it with promiscuous ideas. The Romans and Greeks in themselves glorified the human body instead of hiding it from view. Their obsession with the perfect human body turned our bodies into an art form, instead of degrading ideas. We should all take an example from ancestors of old who had a better idea of nudity than what our current society is portraying it to be.

So I'm not suggesting we go out into the world and start running nude throughout public. But instead, we should change our fixed mindset that society has given us since we were born. Nudity is not a bad thing, don't be ashamed of it, neither expose it in the wrong context. Abuse of our body image is something that you should be ashamed of, but rather the glorification of the beauty of the human body is an idea that should be portrayed and spread among today's society.