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Really, this is a serious topic. Aside from the government enforcing this and increasing rape, keeping warm, why are we so embarassed by being uncovered? I never understood this, as to having these ideas and customs planted in my head since birth. What makes people so different from animals in regards to this?
Social stigma
Do you want to be judged?
Maybe not innocent enough, to judgmental. Like if everyone knew each others thoughts, people probably couldn't handle it. Like they can't handle nakedness. It's a matter of not being able to handle the truth. On the other hand clothes can be pretty and part of you. They reflect the times. I'd probably still use them most of the time anyway. Some people you just don't want to see naked because you don't like them. I think it protects people from that as it's such a personal thing. The human body is extremely sexual and unique in nature that it overshadows the entire social structure of how people operate. Having the plain reality in front of us like that would force a change of culture and thinking in the way we operate as a society. The change would be so great it would be painful. That's why it's only gradually happening as we evolve. In our case only when we think about and question things can we evolve. Think back in the old days how women dressed compared to now. This subject normally wouldn't even be considered. So that's progress. Animals are different because they don't have the same sense of self awareness to be dealing with those kinds of problems. When you get to the human being stage everything gets more intense and complex. That is the price of the benifits. It's an interesting subject so thanks for bringing it up.
cus its fucking cold and wet out there.
notice people dont wear many clothes at all on beaches etc where it is hot as fuck.
except in religiously fanatical countries. Which is another reason people wear clothes I guess in some parts of the world.
Yeah indeed, the reason why the Koran says women need to cover their bodies is because the body of women is sacred. Watching the female body will aruouse "the devil" inside men, and will distract them from their goal. Being able to see the female body naked all the time will make it worth less.. if you understand what I mean.
I also prefer women to keep their clothes on (except when I tell them to take them off :D)... if all women ran around naked all the time, seeing a naked female body wouldn't do anything to me anymore...
Very good point indeed. I never saw it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba
but if we were naked all the time there would be less rape. we would be used to it and men wouldn't be as destracted as they are now at the sight of a naked woman. we would also reproduce less because the urge wouldn't be as strong because we would be used to each other.
I think if you worry about why we wear clothes than you can't dress well and don't dress fly e tc.
A nudist colony might be the ticket. :P
Anyway, clothes are a way of expressing yourself (and your form) and also keeping warm. Someone in a suit looks more stately and mature than in a tutu, or naked. Likewise, a woman in a dress looks better than in a suit (IMHO don't kill me feminists)
We wear clothes because it gives the guys with small dicks a chance.
Please! That just doesn't seem correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray
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Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed
Well, reverse engineering the mind is hard...kind of like saying how do you get to the number 60? when all you see is the number 60. 5 * 12? 2 * 30?
Things like this are too complicated to ever really come up with a correct reason. It may have started with it being cold, or whatever, but then why have different styles of clothes...clothes that aren't comfortable, etc.
So why do we wear clothes? There are lots of reasons why it might be true...and all the ones you think of may be correct or incorrect.
If you ask me...clothes are like when birds flash each other their bright colors...
This might be a reason why you pay strippers to strip and to not just show up naked. The taking off of the clothes is a signal that makes you think wohoo! They want to fuck me!
Examples of this are the "trench coat" fantasies...where you and your mate role play in which one of you shows up at the door in a trench coat completely naked underneath. That is more "enticing" than them showing up just naked, or for some people more enticing than just showing up in a bra and panties.
Lots of clothes are made so you can specifically put them on to be taken off like eatable undies, or different types of lingerie.
Self-consciousness is why we wear clothes, and to protect our skin from the sun's rays, and from perverts, and to keep us warm in the cold, and to look cute also.
Without clothes we would be animals, we have clothes to make us look good or fashionable, imagine a world without clothes and makeup, that would be a terrible world.
A world with no tight jeans and cute shirts would be a bad world. Also like I wrote before, to protect ourselves from perv's with wandering eyes.
Also, its kinda gross, if we were all nude, I personally do not want to see some people's parts...especially older people.
now if I worked in an enviroment with both attractive men and women, i would love to see that...but i would be to scared to be nude myself.
Plus, I love the feeling of tight denim and cotton on my skin, hugging my body..it feels nice.
I think it's largely this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omicron
Plus, most people are ugly fucks.
Mes Tarrant for the win :D
your right, many people are ugly, and im sure their 'parts' might be ugly too.
Can you just imagine walking to work, and seeing your co-worker's yeast infection?
Or walking to work, seeing your buddy scratch his jungle nest of pubes?
:pukes:
There's your answer, while some men are amazingly hot, most aren't
While some women are gorgeous, most aren't
that is why we humans wear clothes, it covers things we don't want seen, and it makes you feel safer...I feel safe with clothes opposed to nude.
I've got nothing to hide, I admit my body is good but, being nude in front of strangers is just, wrong to me. Also, clothes can be really nice, shopping for clothes and finally finding that perfect shirt that just matches your body is a great experience!
I don't agree with that, there are tons of things outside of just physical attributes that could bring beauty out from within. Do you remember the famous saying, beauty is in the eye of the beholder? There is someone for everyone in this world. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
I do agree with Guerilla he makes a good point. Self-consciousness would probably be a major reason. People wear clothes to hide or to feel more secure. I also think people wear clothes to create a more physical and psychological barrier between themselves and others. People ususally try to fit in because acceptance is a major concern. Just my input. :)
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Originally Posted by Switch
:lol: Right. You do realize we're talking about every random joe being naked here, yah? Can you find the beauty within each stranger you pass by in the street? Please. Don't romanticize this.
Haha, I have to agree with Mes, most average joes are UGLY
Hehehe :chuckle: I heart you guerilla. We should go shoppingggzszsz.
I wish, I need fashion help! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
I wish I had a cool girl friend to go shopping with, too bad I don't know many people here in phoenix, but things will change soon enough maybe.
But I would go shopping with you if I lived there in a heartbeat :boogie:
And then we could scope out all the hot guys (and girls..for me lol)
I've been meaning to buy a whole new set of clothes anyway! :D
I'm tired of the stuff I have, I need tighter clothes and more feminine colors :P, it's about time I bought a pink shirt or 2, or 3 :D
This is why it is called "bumping uglies."Quote:
Originally Posted by guerilla
lol...good one
Gosh I wish one of you ladies lived here in phoenix, I wanna go shopping :D
To divide us from the animals by a third degree, I suppose.
Sort of a, "Hey bitch! I'm wearing your brother as a coat! Bow down to me!" kinda thing.
Cause clothes are pretty!
That could signify that you're a prep as much as it could a woman trapped in a mans body.Quote:
Originally Posted by guerilla
Correlation? :P
I've always dressed prep sorta, but thats a whole nother issue being in the wrong body. Until you've been in my shoes you wouldn't understand :PQuote:
Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed
But seriously, I've seen a few guys wear pink lately, its in fashion this summer...hooray I can get away with pinks and not be called a fag in public!
Hooray for not getting my ass beat :D
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Originally Posted by Korittke
To keep your filthy balls/pussy and asshole off of peoples furniture and stuff. Also, even if you don't need to keep warm, you need protection from environment (brush, snakes, etc). Even Natives wore clothing most of the time when they didn't have too.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoSioType
If we had no clothes then we would probably be covered in hair......... oh god, I can't stand men with hairy backs !!!!! BLAH
Yea, hair is kinda gross, except on the scalp :D
The only hair I have on my body is um...my legs and my underarms, if it were up to me there wouldn't be any hair follicles on my body lol...
I saw a guy with under arm hair that looked like little fake taupe`s or however you spell it. That was revulting on a whole new level lol.
ew, now your gonna make me cut my underarm hair lols
I reckon it's peer pressure too. I was not embaressed about nakedness until I saw that other people were. But it is a pretty strong "instinct" so there may be another explanation.
Strangely enough once we became hairless pubic hair remained. What use would this be if we were wearing clothes?
Pubic hair is a universal joke.
It's probably there for....um...smooth sailing, If you know what I mean. Keeps things from getting too abrasive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idolfan
Pubic hair remains to trap scent.
Seriously I love guys who keep their body hair under control, i.e. trimming things. Oh man, props for them.
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Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
Ah, I see. There are milions of other evolutionary mishaps I would also like explaining and you seemed to floor this one pretty easily, but that would be off topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robot_Butler
Now that I think aboot it, peer pressure is probably strong enough by itself. Young children appear to run around nude without any hesitation and probably the only reason we cover up when exposed is because it's hard wired into our heads by TV and other people at an early age. Personally, I learned it from Ed, Edd and Eddy if I can trust my memory.
I mean we have pretty much zero protection from the elements. Even on a nice day, we'd all get skin cancer naked. :P There's no way around it, IMO.
Yea you're right, and people who trim down below are awesome as you said before lol
Bald is Beautiful, in my opinion, that's why i've gone bald nearly completely, except the legs
Basically these couple things:
1. It's really f***ing cold outside, or hot.
2. Essentially we are afraid of our own primal instincts, and that fear has permeated culture, religion and government.
Even your arms? I know some guys who shave their arms to show off their tats. Its really uncomfortable to stand too close to their stubbly sandpaper arms when you're packed in at the bar. What do you do about arm and chest stubble?Quote:
Originally Posted by guerilla
well I'm planning on using wax lol, prepare for pain! :D
Let's not forget that not every culture wears clothes. It's a purely cultural thing. Clothes are also useful in many conditions, help keep things sanitary, and allow us to show off. For cleanliness reasons I think it's smart to cover our nether region, but I would like to see the taboo against women going topless in public go away.
It's image for sure. With our clothes, we alert others to our societal standing and share our sense of style (or lack thereof) with the world. Obviously clothing protects you from the cold and other environmental things too, but it's mainly a form of self-defining expression, expression that goes beyond the spots and stripes of animal pelts.
Also they keep your sweaty a-hole off my couch! :banana:
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Originally Posted by bcomp
:boogie: Now there's a visual I'd rather forget !!
There are a lot of visuals from this thread I'd rather forget.
My theory is that as humans, who had lost their fur in the tropics (for reasons constantly argued about), travelled to colder climates, they eventually added clothing with a functional addition of warmth. There had already been clothing to decorate, as well as, more likely even earlier, earlier, aid in carrying objects and protect vulnerable areas (not merely the pubic region, but also areas such as the neck, for example, which when exposed indicate weakness). As more and more clothing was worn for colder and colder climates, eventually it became necessary to only remove some articles of clothing in an intimate situation, indoors, where it was warmer. This caused the removal of clothing to indicate an air of intimacy or passion, which later we "retconned" to include other reasoins, such as morality, or, likely as a result of clothing indicating status from early in the develpoment of clothes, from peer pressure. Many other reasons have since been added, but it is my personal opinion that this reason was foremost in thye current discussion of why clothes are found to be necessary in most cultures, even when temperature doe not require the donning of attire.
First, it was the weather. Then vanity. Then status. And then nobody went around naked for so long, it became taboo, mostly for religion's benefit, I guess.
You forget, though, that are many people in the world that still go around naked. They, too, have concepts of modesty, but don't view their bodies as something imoral.
And, of course, they all live in warm places... :)
I did not forget. Didn;t I... No, I did not mention that. Still, I did say most cultures, and not all. Ah well. Point understood.
This has nothing to do with the question, but I just wanted to say that I'm happy that I've seen someone that plays The World Ends With You, NeoSioType! I love that game....
Because women will finally see how many men are out there with constant boners?
Truf.Quote:
Originally Posted by malac
Ha.
Clothes are ok but I hate pants...
I never like wearing them, when I get home I just take them off.
i think its bc some guys come up a little short and wearing clothes is just a way to hide it.
It would be hilarious to see how many guys walk around with constant boners, hahaahaha, then again it would be kinda gross to see fat men naked, only the hot men should be naked in public :smitten:
Fat men's boners are hidden under several massive layers of fat.
Yea but, the fat guy wouldn't be pleasing to my eyes like a hot guy would :P
I agree, but fat women with their gross flappy boobs and saggy pussies...
I usauly don't talk like this but you were on the subject...
Then it has been agreed. We wear clothes to sheild us from the monstrosity of obese people.
Agreed.