This is a very interesting subject concerning women and their views of nudity.
The debate ends with women may be seeing themselves as "property" and only be seen by the "property owner" and if anyone else sees her, they would claim "possession".
That may be true in one sense long long ago, but today that should not be so.
An example would be people who thought that their souls would be taken away in the box (camera) if a picture was taken of them. But it is incorrect and their fears are not valid. They should be educated and redeemed and led to understand that they are free and nobody can take their soul. That soul belongs to them and God alone and they are redeemed and liberated.
Another example in the difference between men and women is that as soon as women are being freed, they are being put back into "slavery" by form of pictorial prostitution, being "used" by men as they sexually view them naked. So women feel violated if they are naked, because they assume that men are looking at them sexually. They are taught that is how things are. Whether true or not, their "soul" cannot be taken away, no matter how much men goggle at them or view them. The sin is in the eye of the beholder, not the one being seen.
But men on the other hand, finds freedom in nudity because we feel enslaved by wearing clothes. Coats, ties, "professional dress" so we can slave for our money.
Personally, I feel free when I am nude, and feel eslaved when I am wearing clothes, especially certain types of clothing for the purpose of working.
True, I need protection against elements that may be harmful to my body, just like I would wear a air filter resperator when I am spray painting to protect my lungs. But I dont' do it for the sake of shame or fear of social rejection. I do it because my lungs will get coated with paint if I dont!
So us men do see nudity differently. But I am seeing more and more men being portrayed nude in books, but usually they are homosexual. I am dissappointed that our "good ol' boys" cannot get out of their nike shoes and caps and jeans to let the world know that they are real men just as women are real women. Not objects of desire or art or sexual gratification.
We are free. Women, you are FREE! Take possession of your body. Be as God created you. HE owns you, not men.
Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."
