As I think about it a bit more, why does there need to be line drawn? If we believe in free speech, then surely that entails free dress as well. how does it not? If free speech is a human right, then surely free dress is too. They are both forms of freedom of expression.
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It can't be rationalised. It's a disgust response and it's probably not going away. We're a long way from people being happy to see someone masturbating on the bus when they're taking their kids to school even if they did so hygienically.
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ok so free dress to you is a man masturbating on a school bus. Pretty sure that most people wouldn't do that, because of morals etc So if we cant trust people to choose their own dress, then forcing women to dress modestly is ok? That really is the end of your argument here.
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That was my point in the first place! That there needs to be some line between burqas and public naked sex and that wherever it is will always be somewhat arbitrary. It genuinely is a social construct and we need to argue for where that is.
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Nudity & public naked sex aren't the same thing Not being clothed is not the same thing as being available for sex. They are two very different things and I"m surprised you are conflating the two. What we wear & what we say should be free, providing it doesnt cause harm to others
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The scale is 'modesty' in relation to concepts of sexual appropriateness.
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Is a naked human immodest or sexual? Or is it just what it is? A naked human like we all are? Modesty is a judgement and I'm a bit sad that you have decided to judge as to what is modest and what is not? Who gave you that right to decide what is modest?
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It was you who said 'No public sex because people have morals', not me. Your line is obviously where sexuality is concerned. OK, mine probably is too. But this is still largely arbitrary. Sex is natural. The other animals don't worry. Can't rationalise it.
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I saw legalize public naked sex! I can finally cancel my pornhub subscription and spend more time out of the house
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Stop trying to keep me from my God-given right to public naked sex, Helen! Get your laws off my body!
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Modesty behaviors are not necessarily entirely arbitrary aspects of culture. Chimpanzees and other primates exhibit some proto-modesty behaviors. But the particular manifestation is certainly arbitrary. Hard to know what’s best. Hard to change established cultures too.
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Individual liberty is often in conflict with social stability. I’ve noticed that when cultures with very different modesty codes come in contact, the more conservative ones tend to be given deference. Few get offended by too much modesty.
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If that were true, then why was there the sexual liberation of the 60's that led to a much more open display of the human body up until the 90's than we have today? But an interesting conversation on why an uncovered person is immodest in the first place?
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The sexual revolution was a change driven from within the culture; and even in this case, the more conservative standards reasserted themselves a couple of decades later.
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They did, I agree. But how did it happen? We were heading towards a libertarian hands off, clothes off future and then it suddenly stopped. I'm at a loss to explain this new modesty in public attire when at the same time porn becomes 35% of internet downloads. This is not healthy
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I suspect these causes: 1. a resurgence of the Dworkin-MacKinnon flavor of Puritanical & authoritarian feminism; 2. privacy concerns prompted by the the combination of ubiquitous cameras & the internet; 3. modesty/virtue signaling among women as a form of intrasexual competition.
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