We cannot bear to bare it all: Why is nakedness a taboo?
source - google When we come into this world, we are bare, free of clothing, of all of our societal rules, cultures, and education. We are naked. As soon as we are in this world we are rushed to be cleaned and wrapped in ‘warm clothing’ by well meaning doctors, midwives and other medical personnel. From that moment on our natural state of nakedness is hidden forever, taboo. We become forever ashamed of our very nature. We cannot bear to bare it all; it would be too much for society to handle. So we have created dress codes which instruct us to cover our bodies and on how to cover them. They tell us how much of our bodies we can expose at any one point in time. As we grow up, we learn these rules and most importantly we accept these rules with little or no questions asked. We become obsessed with covering our bodies. When did it become so important to cover up, to hide? This is certainly not a thing of today, for humans have covered themselves in one way or another sinc...