Re: What's the problem with nudity? - BBC Horizon

On Jan 11, 7:17=A0am, Zee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 8:46=A0pm, Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Of course in recent years this Horizon episode has been the most
> > interesting British documentary on nudity. =A0The last experiment there
> > really bothers me though. =A0For the last experiment people were told t=
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> > paint the parts of the body they felt it was okay to TOUCH. One person
> > painted the entire body. =A0I would think there would be a difference
> > between the parts of the body people thought it was okay to expose and
> > the parts of the body people thought it was okay to touch. Anyway, I
> > am sure most of you have seen this documentary before but in
> > preparation for Thursday's nudist documentary on Channel Four, I
> > thought some might again want to review this BBC documentary.
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsF7bVHD_RA4
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> > What is wrong with nudity? Why are people embarrassed about their
> > bodies? How and why did they get the way they are?
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> > Horizon takes a group of volunteers and subjects them to a series of
> > psychological and physical tests to challenge attitudes to the naked
> > human form. The questions raised strike at the heart of human physical
> > and social evolution.
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> > Human beings are the only creatures that can be 'naked' - but why, how
> > and when did people lose their fur? That question takes Horizon around
> > the world to meet scientists from Africa to Florida, and they are
> > finding answers in unexpected places: the chest hair of Finnish
> > students, the genetic history of lice, and the sweat of an unusual
> > monkey.
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> > It turns out that something everyone takes for granted may hold the
> > key to the success of the entire human species.
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> once more with feeling we see the educated hiding their perversion by
> touting an immature experiment in order to subject not so bright
> specimens to take their clothes off for the camera and make money in
> the name of a phony science.....z

That whole "exercise" seemed weird because before then the focus was
on just seeing nude people and being seen nude, and the comfort and
discomfort of that, but this moved it all into the area of touching
body parts. Seemed like it moved it into kind of a different (though I
guess somewhat related) subject.  The question in the end with that
experience wasn't what's wrong with seeing nude people and being nude
around people, by people's comfort level of being touched. If they
wanted it to be about what is wrong with being touched then that would
be to me a different program.

That one German lady at Confest sure found out the problems with touch!