There is no single reason why someone might be interested in or actively participate in public nudity if they choose to. It could be for the physical sensation of freedom, which could incite a phenomenological/emotional sense of empowerment. It could be for convenience due to extreme heat or a personal dislike for how clothing feels. Moreover, it could be because both private and public nudity is normalized in their community, or because the naked body, their own or that of others, stirs up a non-hedonistic love of sensuality. Among the logically possible reasons for a person engaging in public nudity, there is also the fact that, though sensuality is not sexuality and though sexuality can be totally subjugated to self-control as needed, it could be sexually exciting to see the nudity of others or have one's own nudity seen.
One does not need to have any gravitation towards the public display of one's own body for the sake of comfort or sensuality (which is not necessarily sexual in nature, though sexual admiration of someone's body is always sensual) to realize any of this. The truth about the body concerns all of us who have bodies, not only people who would flee from assumptions about its moral-theological or other characteristics. Since these truths are logical necessities, as long as someone thinks of the basic issue at all, they could recognize what does and does not follow no matter their cultural background, personality, or feelings about the body. Nevertheless, to someone who is used to a prudish or ascetic culture, to even wonder about these matters, much less to pinpoint truths like these, would probably seem bizarre or even irrational when it is they who are in error. They are so adjusted to either the erroneous philosophical stances on the body or to simply seeing it covered so thoroughly and so consistently that anything else strikes them as wrong.
Independent of sensual or sexual attraction to the nudity of any particular person or any kind of desire to expose one's body, it is incredible that so many people can go about their lives having bodies and do little to nothing to embrace any logical facts about nudity. Christian or not, old or young, no matter how covered, accentuated, or exposed their own body or that of someone else is, they might truly fail to do anything more than confuse human norms like the casual, near-constant wearing of clothing for moral obligations or natural practices. Living with a body under their clothing is not enough to prompt them to reason out such things accurately even across many years. It can be astonishing how helpless, sluggish, and pathetic non-rationalists are with discovering the nature of the body even when they have not only their own body as a persistent presence in their life, but also other people perpetuating social conditioning with their words in ways that could prompt them to evaluate these norms in light of reason.
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A. https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-human-construct-of-clothing-part-one.html
B. https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-human-construct-of-clothing-part-two.html
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