[ableton]

I agree. There are a lot of very smart people on both sides of the issue. It is better to be exposed to both sides.

Also, I think it is good that they are trying to limit nudity in textbooks. Even Steve jobs, who was by no means traditional, prohibited nudity from the App Store because he thought it was bad for young people.

[jopsen]

No Steve thought nudity was bad business for a high-end brand like Apple.

[ableton]

No I read somewhere reputable, I think in his biography that he though this.

[qb45]

Is Techcrunch reputable enough for you guys?

https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-porn/

We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.

You know, there’s a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That’s a place we don’t want to go – so we’re not going to go there.

[eesmith]

Porn isn't the same as nudity. Nick Ut's famous "The Terror of War", showing children fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam war, includes a naked girl screaming as the napalm melts layers off her skin.

There is nothing pornographic about that nudity.

[Oletros]

> It is better to be exposed to both sides.

What sides?

> Also, I think it is good that they are trying to limit nudity in textbooks

What's the problem with nudity in biology or anatomy books?

[michaelmrose]

Would you prefer to debate the nudity being bad for young people or whether this law has any legitimate use?

[babyrainbow]

Is nudity bad for grownups? Does the law that prevents public exposure has any legitimate use?

[ableton]

This isn't about grown ups, it's about children in school.

[michaelmrose]

Can you explain why nudity the natural state of the human body only becomes acceptable after people reach a wholly artificial age set by society.

The reality is that the nudity taboo is an artifact of culture that is obsolete.

Primitive religions controlled access to sex by forbidding sex outside of marriage and maintaining a monopoly on access to the marital bed. Sexuality outside of marriage was associated with moral breakdown because it encouraged disobedience to the central source of moral authority.

The interesting thing is that people can encourage their particular nudity taboo while scoffing at others as if a particular part of the human body was implicitly somehow more sinful. The taboo that says its necessary for a woman to hide her face is no different, better, or worse than the taboo that says she has to hide her rear end.

On the other side its perfectly ok for people to maintain the style of dress that makes them comfortable. If you desire to hide everything but your eyeballs that's your right but it becomes morally problematic when people attempt to make the world at large or the internet comport with their sensibilities. Its as sensible as only wearing red and insist that nobody be allowed to wear blue or be seen in the world at large or online attired in blue. Basically the world would be a better place if people didn't impose their hang ups on others.

Your turn.

[Oletros]

Is nudity bad for children?

Perhaps because I'm from a zone where nudity is not a great deal and you can even walk in beach promenades and see nudist beaches and no one cares.