Privacy.
It's something we all seem to crave. We close the door when we go to the bathroom, we don clothes to cover our bodies, we commute alone in our cars, we lower the shades at night no that nobody can see in.
All that is coming to an end, and society is having a great deal of difficulty in coming to terms with this revolutionary change.
No longer can we expect out phone conversations, our e-mails, our Internet activities, our finances, or even our personal travel to be private. Our government wants to know where we are, what we owe, what we say, what we think, all in the name of "homeland security".
While there is some outcry at this new government intervention in our lives, people generally seem to be accepting at this new baring of our lives, perhaps out of a certain amount of fear of terrorism, or perhaps a certain amount of acceptance of this as an inevitability or modern life.
But the one thing that we are having the most trouble dealing with is the baring of our bodies. For centuries people have worn clothes, first as protection from the elements, then as a means of preserving modesty, and then as a means of personal expression and fashion.
The modesty aspect of clothing is from conditioning. So called "primitive" societies in Africa, the Amazon and in Oceania were unclothed until European missionaries taught them to cover up their bodies for religious reasons. Children have no natural modesty until they are integrated into society, and they begin to believe that covering up is the only acceptable way to be.
It is this strict conditioning with clothing that makes it so hard for people to accept this new electronic age, where people can be virtually stripped down by airport machines, where their children are posting nude photos of themselves on the Internet, and where images of nude people in every sort of once-private sexual situation are readily available at any computer, even in schools and libraries.
People no longer have an expectation of privacy in locker rooms, tanning booths, bathrooms, or dressing rooms because of cell phone cameras and small surveillance video equipment. Teenagers are snapping photos of themselves in the nude with their phones and sharing the images with their friends. It seems as if every day someone is fired from a job as a teacher, policeman, or government position for nude photos, of themselves or of others.
At some point we must come to terms with this new exposed society. It is the age of objectification of the human body, where body parts are defined by governments, restricted by ordinances, limited by boundaries, exploited by the media. Ruining lives by criminalizing the human body is a symptom of a society struggling to maintain ages-old norms that are no longer valid.
As the old saying goes, the toothpaste cannot be put back in the tube.
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It's something we all seem to crave. We close the door when we go to the bathroom, we don clothes to cover our bodies, we commute alone in our cars, we lower the shades at night no that nobody can see in.
All that is coming to an end, and society is having a great deal of difficulty in coming to terms with this revolutionary change.
No longer can we expect out phone conversations, our e-mails, our Internet activities, our finances, or even our personal travel to be private. Our government wants to know where we are, what we owe, what we say, what we think, all in the name of "homeland security".
While there is some outcry at this new government intervention in our lives, people generally seem to be accepting at this new baring of our lives, perhaps out of a certain amount of fear of terrorism, or perhaps a certain amount of acceptance of this as an inevitability or modern life.
But the one thing that we are having the most trouble dealing with is the baring of our bodies. For centuries people have worn clothes, first as protection from the elements, then as a means of preserving modesty, and then as a means of personal expression and fashion.
The modesty aspect of clothing is from conditioning. So called "primitive" societies in Africa, the Amazon and in Oceania were unclothed until European missionaries taught them to cover up their bodies for religious reasons. Children have no natural modesty until they are integrated into society, and they begin to believe that covering up is the only acceptable way to be.
It is this strict conditioning with clothing that makes it so hard for people to accept this new electronic age, where people can be virtually stripped down by airport machines, where their children are posting nude photos of themselves on the Internet, and where images of nude people in every sort of once-private sexual situation are readily available at any computer, even in schools and libraries.
People no longer have an expectation of privacy in locker rooms, tanning booths, bathrooms, or dressing rooms because of cell phone cameras and small surveillance video equipment. Teenagers are snapping photos of themselves in the nude with their phones and sharing the images with their friends. It seems as if every day someone is fired from a job as a teacher, policeman, or government position for nude photos, of themselves or of others.
At some point we must come to terms with this new exposed society. It is the age of objectification of the human body, where body parts are defined by governments, restricted by ordinances, limited by boundaries, exploited by the media. Ruining lives by criminalizing the human body is a symptom of a society struggling to maintain ages-old norms that are no longer valid.
As the old saying goes, the toothpaste cannot be put back in the tube.
Tags: nudism, naturism, nudist, nudists, naturist, naturists, nudity, nudes, bare, au naturel, nude, naked
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