I am not a porn advocate neither am I going to insinuate towards that direction no matter what. All the same, the issue of nudity has always been a controversial one indeed. In many systems, it's been outlawed as a criminal act, especially in the public – a public nuisance you may call it. On the other hand, some staunch advocates are clamoring for the legalizing of one's right to go about nude in the public. This is not surprising either.
However, my point of view has nothing to do with the clamorous call for and against on nudity, but on the issue of what makes it, such a controversial bone-of-contention? Morally, yes in the religious aspect, nudity is well accepted as something to be kept under locks-and-keys: a privacy content only. Also in the legal frames and social ethics such is also upheld as a protection for public sanity.
Until the rebellion according to the bible's creation account, man began with nudity. Right before our modern day type of civilization, nudity was the order of the day. From the British ancestories before the Romans conquered their territories, to the red Indians of the Americas before they were forcefully subjugated by their conquering invaders of European origins. From the black African tribes, (even the Egyptians before and after the pharaohs), to the Middle East and the Asians e.t.c. Men and women alike went about their business absolutely naked or with fringes of coverings just below their abdomens. To them it was acceptable to the society of their day to go about stacked naked.
Nevertheless, the influx of civilizing ideologies as brought about by the conquering armies, with their attached strings of improved lifestyles and enlightenment, brought about a gradual change in the mental orientations of a once nude world. Man began to see himself as bizzare and indecent without a decent coverings over his nudity. Till date men and women remain ugly without their clothes on. They could only be judged as handsome or beautiful when properly dressed.
With too much emphasizes on sex and sensuality as been portrayed in the media, the society became overly consciouses of its sensual capacities and as such nudity became a more jealously guarded issue meant only for the consumption of the holder. The moral conscience soon took over what was left of the strong urge to protect our nudity.
Sadly today, times has changed a lot of things as an alarming good numbers of people especialy the younger generations are quickly embracing the culture of nudity- a delibrate backward steps to the dark ages of humanity in the full glare of a modern society. One begins to wonder how long the trend would last and how much the society would bear to stand the pressures towards keeping nudity a privacy-rights to the holder or would it soon become a public-rights?
There's no doubt that societys' sence of judgement has always degenerated when subjected under an intence pressure by the armies of invading ideaologies - betraying those who relied on it as a evident by the past. A sign of a global decadence and a replica of the dying and climaxing days of the Roman empire- when obsene nudity characterised the living glamoure of the once powerful empire, until they were swept away with destruction. Would our present society befalled of such predicaments?
