> There s a certain undertone in the article that men and women should be dressed for modesty reasons.
I read the article through and didn’t see that at all. Can you quote some of the parts that indicates that to you?
I read the article through and didn’t see that at all. Can you quote some of the parts that indicates that to you?
The question is right there in the title. just by observing all the native tribes the answer could be "why not" . greece is not tropical, but i can't see why always clothed would be assumed to be the default other than for protection. There's no explanation why casual nudity should not be expected , or why nudity signals something. If anything, in most societies it is clothing that singals something
then there is the part about phalluses - but phalluses are not particularly related to nudity nor does greek art create any connection between the two. The connection from nudity to phallus betrays modern biases about nudity.
There's also no mention of baths, another place where nudity is the natural state.
Then there is this which sounds so colossally revisionist:
> It is difficult to deny the elegance of a simple explanation for the prevalence of nude dudes in Greek art: they were the ultimate, high-class sex symbol and – then as now – sex always sells.
Sex was almost free in athens since Solon established public brothels. Relationships with young boys were erotic and long-term, not just sexual. Also notice that greeks use a few different words for love and lovemaking , none of which directly translates to sex. This was not 20th century hollywood
It may also have started with the industrialization and its effects on becoming aware of stuff outside your locale, and ofcourse missionary work in the colonized world.
From local accents, local customs, local dresscodes that pretty disappeared in these two hundred odd years. Only recently do we see lots of reclamations and restoration of that (and sometimes a form neoism where the original as completely disappeared)
Half a century ago, homosexually was outrageous. Today it is heteronormativity which is considered as outrageous. That's a 180° change.