By Ian Ortega
The history of nudity will teach many an interesting thing about how certain things become acceptable and other things become unacceptable.
So basically, when you feel ashamed when another person has seen you nude, it’s not because it’s really shameful. But there’s a memory that’s been encoded in you, reprinted for over generations.
The forefathers begun to wear clothes or clothing mainly out of necessity. The climatic conditions begun to dictate, especially when it got very cold.
However as time went on, more and more people begun wearing clothes. Now clothes were not just out of necessity but for prestige, for decorations and for social functions.
Societies keep evolving and the group think wins the way. It came to a point where one would look odd if they were the ones not wearing clothes out of the whole group. So, wearing clothes became the new default setting and being nude became the unusual setting.
At what point then does, nudity begin to correlate to sex? Because there came generations that were born after clothes were the new default setting, they were always curious to know what was beneath the clothes. And since, sex in most cases happens with clothes off, the new generations born after the adoption of clothes begun to relate nudity to sex.
Now, everyone knows that society is so repressed about the highest emotion, yet also equally obsessed about it. So nudity was now shamed to the core, because it signified sex.
Many years later, the modern generations are struggling with the whispers of behaviours that were adopted and adapted to by their ancestors. Those whispers of nudity is wrong. But in actual sense, nothing is wrong with nudity.
Nudity is only wrong in societies where the group think has agreed that nudity=sex. It is no surprise that in those societies, when a girl wears a skimpy outfit, they will right away brand her as a slut. And if she’s raped, it won’t be a surprise to hear someone blame her for it. Saying she called for it.
Thus in the case of Fabiola, there’s nothing wrong about her nudity. All she has done is hold up a mirror for society. A mirror in which society can see its nakedness, its hypocrisy, and pretense when it comes to nudity. And how society wrongfully correlates nudity to signify sex.
