http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081230/boobs/ by John Paczkowski Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081230/boobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4062 John Gillies Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:43:23 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=10291#comment-4062 What's depressing about this is seeing how prevalent the infantile obsession with nudity is in the general population of America. In Europe and Asia, maturity in the approach to the human form has long ago outgrown the infantile shame and prudishness of the American general population. One can't necessarily attribute it to religious reasons since there are some very religious groups in Asia and Europe who still do not have trouble appreciating and observing the naked human form without resorting to troubling psychological outbursts including denial and shame. American values still seem to be rutted in the Puritanical approach to much of human interaction. Its probably going to take another generation or so of advertising, cultural influences, and political change to get this old detritus out of our systems and allow us to move on to more important issues that are more life-threatening, more serious, than perhaps a wonderful image of life and generosity affirmed. What’s depressing about this is seeing how prevalent the infantile obsession with nudity is in the general population of America. In Europe and Asia, maturity in the approach to the human form has long ago outgrown the infantile shame and prudishness of the American general population. One can’t necessarily attribute it to religious reasons since there are some very religious groups in Asia and Europe who still do not have trouble appreciating and observing the naked human form without resorting to troubling psychological outbursts including denial and shame. American values still seem to be rutted in the Puritanical approach to much of human interaction. Its probably going to take another generation or so of advertising, cultural influences, and political change to get this old detritus out of our systems and allow us to move on to more important issues that are more life-threatening, more serious, than perhaps a wonderful image of life and generosity affirmed.

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