The Naked Body

The realization that nudity is biologically and theologically natural--and Biblically nonsinful--does not mean that everyone prefers to see the naked bodies of other people or expose their own bodies in front of others, much less that they are comfortable with the sight of someone else's nudity at all.  Some people who affirm the Biblical legitimacy of private and public nudity might still have internalized prudish attitudes from their family or broader culture that are not easy to forsake.  However, the difficulty of setting conditioned emotions and psychological responses does not mean that there is no use in reorienting one's attitude towards nudity (in applicable cases).

Prudish feelings are worth overcoming for numerous personal and social reasons, subjective comfort with one's own body and the pleasures of sexually and platonically appreciating the bodies of the opposite gender being benefits to overcoming any social conditioning that has led a person to find nudity disturbing.  However, there is also the possibility that a person who experience discomfort at the sight or thought of the naked human body was not influenced by others to feel that way, as some might simply have a subjective desire to avoid seeing the naked bodies of other people, even bodies of members of the opposite gender whom they are sexually attracted to.

This is not the same as an ideological prudery that mistakenly regards nudity as sexual and sexual excitement at seeing certain naked bodies as an uncontrollable force.  Rather, this kind of discomfort is just an authentic part of some individuals.  Nothing about subjectively experiencing it is irrational or immoral, but prescribing it as ideal certainly is.  Thus, as long as someone who is uncomfortable with public nudity or nudity in entertainment does not go beyond merely believing that their dislike of nudity is purely subjective and is irrelevant to the nature of nudity itself, they have done nothing objectionable.

Of course, someone who overcomes prudery that they experience by default without any social conditioning can still enjoy the same benefits as someone who sheds socially conditioned prudery.  Ridding oneself of either kind of prudery is not an impossibility, and the sense of pleasure that might replace discomfort with the naked body is worth the effort for anyone who wishes they could enjoy sensuality with genuine psychological comfort.  The human body, clothed or unclothed, does not have to be an offensive sight.

Indeed, the human body can be one of the most pleasurable sights of all for those who allow themselves to indulge their love of sensuality by viewing and reflecting on the human form.  Not everyone is comfortable with it, and not everyone is necessarily excited by it even if they have no prudish beliefs or feelings, but the naked body remains a thing of sensuality for many who either see the nudity of others or have their own nude bodies seen.  The subjectivity of these experiences and the variations between them can certainly make it worthwhile for those who struggle with discomfort with the body to strive towards peace with human physicality.