I tend to agree, its not taught its just naturally exampled. I recall when we would go to the public pool to swim. Afterwards we had to shower there (old fashioned big open shower room) because my dad felt let the county pay for the hot water and not himlol). No one thought twice about it. And even if not nude at home, then at most it was just underwear.
But each person has their own comfort level and I respect that. I have been comfortable in my own skin. Used to share a room with my bother who is 6 years older. Once I started sleeping nude, he moved to the basement within 2 months. Even when a few years back and we shared a hotel room. He slept in his underwear, t shirt, socks and khaki shorts!!!! More than I wore most days!!! LOL
I stayed with my dad when my parents got divorced so since age 10 it was just us 2 in the house. We became super close and bonded soon after and decided together to just start being naked around the house. It was awesome!
That sounds awesome. I think it's more common than people realise. You were very lucky to get to bond so closely.
Hi, I lgrew up in a somewhat nudist home in Mexico. Both my parents were very comfortable walking around naked at home. I remember my dad taking afternoon naps fully naked, however we never talked about naturism or us being naked, lol.
The nudity in my household was established by my mom I assume as my dad's family would not ever get naked in front of other people (extremely catholic and religious), however from my mom side I did see my Granma and some female cousins naked sporadically.
In my mom's family they are all females (no male cousins, never met my grandfather, all aunts -mom is the youngest female of all her sisters), the only male was my mom youngest brother. He was 10yrs older than me. Because of the lack of males my mom always pushed for me to spend time with him.
While it was normal to be naked at home and was used to see my dad naked all the time, it was with my uncle that my curiosity and enjoyment of being naked begun. First time we started hanging out naked I was probably 6yo until I was 13 and he married and moved to another town.
He is the one that teach me to enjoy being naked, I learned with him a lot about my body and his body (I was very curious). I don't have kids as an adult but if I did, I would show them to be proud of their bodies and to enjoy being naked without shame.
Similarly after seeing the film Genesis Children from the 1970s:
One could hardly discern Aikman's intentions as a filmmaker at first glance. There is no real conflict in this movie, which means that in the strict sense, according to grammatology and narrative guidelines, there is no story at all.
This statement, however, could be quite deceitful, as one could easily argue that there is, indeed, a story of some sort, albeit not a traditional one. "The Genesis Children" deals with male beauty: there is a strenuous emphasis in the naked bodies of a group of boys, and that alone serves as reminder of certain theories. Can beauty be found in physical form? Or, as Plato would have it, can real beauty only pertain to the Ideal and thus belong to the sphere of ideas and not to the real world? There is also another conception of beauty that could be useful. When Nietzsche defined the Apollonian beauty he referred to symmetry, cleanness, perfection; and clearly some of that approach is present in Aikman's film, however, Nietzsche would also consider the Dionysian aspect almost as vital or, perhaps, even more relevant. Throughout the narrator's soliloquy this dichotomy comes forward "amidst beauty there is decay", thus accepting that, indeed, one cannot understand beauty while looking only at the bright side of it.
Nietzsche once concluded that art may deconstruct or defile modernity's values. Perhaps, in this most controversial production, the director intended to confront morality with creativity. One could wonder how this movie came to be. After all, it displays the naked bodies of eight young actors, all of them underage, and at points the camera seems fixated on certain areas of their anatomies (all of it would be absolutely forbidden by today's legislations in most countries).
Some of these boys have barely reached the onstage of puberty, while others have just started adolescence. There are long scenes in which they wander around naked, frolicking, playing in the water, and perhaps part of the audience could have considered all that nudity a bit gratuitous. After all, some people might argue than to watch the penises of several boys dangling around while they run to the ocean would not really advance the plot in any direction. Nonetheless, if there is no plot then why should the viewers be concerned with such visual trinket? Certainly, these young boys do not decide for themselves to spend several days on a secluded Mediterranean beach, spending most of their time naked for no apparent reason. They had been summoned by a newspaper ad: "Wanted boys to act in a play to be performed before God at Pavicelli. Come unprepared for your parts". The man who has written the ad is a mysterious bearded individual that appears to them as a priest.
Since the first minutes up until the last ones, the boys comment constantly that they feel like they are being watched by someone. That would be no surprise, after all, it's clear that they are there to be observed. In an almost metalinguistic retort, one of the boys says that instead of someone "something" might be watching them.
As was previously explained, the absence of a "story" shouldn't be a real hindrance; nevertheless, the lack of character development and some of the abrupt decisions the boys take can be a bit unfavorable story-wise. For example, after being naked for entire days, one of the boys gets up and decides to leave while shouting to the rest "You can stay here and run around naked in the sun if you want to, but I think it's obscene". If it was obscene, why did he indulge in such activities for so long? Why does he suddenly find it obscene at one point when he had no conflicts about it before? Perhaps, a more character-based approach would have served better the intentions of the director. Nevertheless, as any artistic work that deviates greatly from established norms, it bears some interest but I would not recommend it to impatient viewers.
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