Jeeze, this thread took me over an hour to read entirely.
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I'm thinking that one possible basis is that it's not wise to overstimulate kids well before they're mature enough to handle the topic of sexuality, or their view on the matter could be unhealthily skewed. I just pulled that out of my ass, however. It may be BS.
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How is the basic naked human form sexual? From birth (as someone duly noted) we have genitals that we can touch and look at, and it's even documented that infant boys will play with their penises (I'm sure the same goes for girls). How is the naked body unhealthy? Do you take showers naked?
Nothing is sexual until someone puts a sexual connotation to it. Just as Nietzsche said,
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"The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly, has made the world evil and ugly."
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... The resolve of radical groups in this country to see the naked human form as sexual and wrong has made the naked human form sexual and wrong.
Also, earlier in the thread someone made an excellent point using people from France and Europe as an example. Furthering that, a woman is raped in America every 2 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. I wonder if cases of sexual abuse are lower in Europe as well. Could our (Americas) view of sex and nudity factor into cases of violent sexual crime as well? I was unable to pin down any European statistics, but if someone has a good source I think it would be interesting to see.