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In many Western cultures, this location is one of the only socially acceptable public places for nudity, often in designated areas.
What is the beach?
While common in ancient Greek art, full-frontal nudity was rare in traditional Chinese paintings due to this cultural virtue of modesty. What Chinese philosophical tradition underlies it?
What is Confucianism?
Spanish colonizers imposed this religion, which greatly influenced views on modesty and nudity throughout Latin America.
What is Catholicism?
In Japan, people often bathe naked together in these hot spring baths.
What is an onsen?
This location is one of the few public places in France where full nudity is legally allowed and socially accepted. (As opposed to a public place permitting topless sunbathing but not complete nudity.)
What is a nudist beach?
This international body declared in 1948 that everyone has the right to privacy, which has since underpinned many global norms around nudity.
What is the United Nations?
Unlike in many Western countries, this movie rating system does not exist in China, leading to full bans or heavy censorship of films with nudity.
What is a film rating system? (E.g. MPA film rating system)
This artist from Mexico is famous for exploring the body and identity, sometimes challenging taboos through her self-portraits.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Japanese comic books, also called this, sometimes showed nudity before American-style censorship made it harder to do so.
What is manga?
In rural communities in Togo, revealing clothing or partial nudity may still be tolerated among these members of society, especially in certain settings.
Who are children?
A feminist movement/campaign in 2014-2015 that protested the double standard treatment of toplessness between men and women.
What is Free the Nipple?
Since the founding of the People’s Republic, the Chinese government has associated public nudity or sexual content with this ideological label. Think: Marxism.
What is bourgeois decadence?
Despite nudity taboos, this genre of television often pushes boundaries with sensuality—but rarely full nudity.
What are telenovelas?
In the 1800s, when Japan started trading with America and Europe, they began changing their rules about public nudity. This time period was called the what?
What is the Meiji period?
Despite France's reputation for liberal attitudes, this legal concept still makes public nudity outside designated areas subject to fines or arrest.
What is "outrage public à la pudeur" (public indecency)?