Comfort With Nudity

Almost anyone who grew up in an American family claiming to be full of committed Christians and even many people who were exposed to parts of secular culture likely were expected to act as if seeing or engaging in public nudity is an abomination, except perhaps in very specific, arbitrary situations.  Humans are born naked, the God of the Bible created humans naked (Genesis 2:25), and nudity does not even incite people to hedonism or any kind of philosophical delusion or immoral action.  The societal hostility towards nudity is not a religious or secular thing: it is devised and encouraged by irrationalists in their immense stupidity.

A person who realizes the true nature of nudity as revealed by logic and as taught by the Bible is free from philosophical falsehoods in this regard, yet they might be left with a dislike of seeing the nude body.  This is ironic since we all have bodies that are only commonly covered because of practical factors like protection against temperatures or because of sheer ideological idiocy.  Each time someone removes all of their clothing to change what they are wearing or to bathe, they are also experiencing how nudity is nonsexual and liberating though they might not realize or focus on it.  Nudity is indeed very comfortable itself with its lack of material that restricts bodily motion or covers the skin.  It does not follow that someone will react to the physical comfort of nudity by finding it comfortable on a mental level, be it their own nudity or that of someone else.  Inside or outside of social interaction, comfort with nudity could end up coming about anyway if such a person directly experiences the relaxation or bodily freedom of nudity himself or herself.

There are other ways to become psychologically comfortable with nudity besides seeing other people without any clothing in person or forgoing one's own clothes in public settings, of course.  A person could adjust to and enjoy the physical feeling of nudity, along with the emotions this might bring with it, without actually exposing himself or herself to others all in the privacy of their home.  Again, no one has to do this in order to understand or appreciate nudity (including in a nonsexual way), and no one needs to subject themself to this even in the absence of observers if they do not want to; they can avoid assumptions and errors about nudity and believe logically demonstrable truths with or without this kind of direct experience.

There is also the possibility of viewing nudity in entertainment in both nonsexual and sexual contexts in order to be even further removed from doing or seeing anything related to the naked body outside of art.  For those who know nudity is biologically natural, Biblically nonsinful and good, and not harmful in any way, but still struggle with the thought of it, art could be a great pathway to getting used to the unclothed body.  Nudity is often very greatly exaggerated by objectors when it is included entertainment like video games and films, so just because art has nudity does not mean that it is constant, forced into the story, or shown in a sexual setting, though whether it is intended in a sexual way has nothing to do with whether nudity is Biblically immoral or artistically irrelevant.

If someone wishes to not even view visual art from any medium that depicts nudity, no matter how it is portrayed, they are not irrational or evil.  They just have a subjective aversion to nudity that either is a part of their natural attitudes or was implanted by prudish cultural pressures.  He or she would still be able to discover, recall, and appreciate logical truths about nudity pertaining to what it is and is not (for instance, that it is not sexual but can be perceived as such).  Personal perceptions or feelings do not stop anyone from coming to any truth.  They might complicate the desire to know truth and live for it in all things, but they do not thwart it.  This is as true of truths about the naked male or female body as it is of anything else.