No nudes please, we're British!

[GGizmo]

I was reading this article about a life drawing art class, going for more than 30 years, is being asked to move or cover up the nude models because of complaints.

Row as nude models told to put clothes on at life-drawing class

A row has broken out after a life-drawing class in north London was told its nude models should wear clothes following complaints.

www.yahoo.com

What is happening to this country? People shouldn't be scared of nudity. There is nothing perverted about the human body.

I remember going to the public swimming baths as a kid. It was normal for men to walk around nude in the male changing rooms.

What are other people's opinions on this story?

 

[GGizmo]

I think this is similar to why the pee stone/trough got removed from the male toilets. To much insecurity going on. Now it's little protective bowls stuck on the wall.

 

[GGizmo]

the world is not what it used to be, if someone did this now days in front of children someone would call the police.

Society as become oversexualised, perverted etc.

 

[GGizmo]

yes and no, you now get girls that identify as boys and boy that identify as girls.
im not going to get into that debate, but if you have a girls locker room you cant stop a man that identifies as a girl been in there for the wrong reasons.
so most locker room are now unisex, but you have to use a changing room.

my local baths used to be open plan now it just full of about 40 changing rooms.

The trans issue is a whole other subject that is very easy to slip into, though I think the number of trans people is miniscule, especially when it comes to trans men in the male changing area/toilets.

I think the change in the attitude to nudity as come from a change in cultural influence.

Pre-9/11 America was just that big Hollywood country across the pond, our distant cousins. We were never following US news this closely.

We were following European culture through our games, music (MTV Europe) etc. If we look at Germany in particular we had the same attitude. We weren't nervous of walking around letting it all hang out no matter how unfit we were.

 

[GGizmo]

Simple fact is that people find nakedness difficult to deal with in a public setting, even when it's art, unless it happens to be a young woman, then they don't seem to mind so much.

I agree. But why?

I think it's because we don't see naked bodies much these days outside of the sexual arena.

We need the naked Olympics!