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sex; 5) for apotropaic motives, to turn away the effects

of magic, sorcery, the evil eye, and hostile spirits. We

shall see that one or more of these factors can

also describe what nudity once meant for the Greeks-and how it changed.2

Though it will not serve as a protection against the

weather (1), nakedness, like clothes or armour, was

used to differentiate social groups (2), in life and in art.

Garments, in fact, distinguishes human society, civilized

Folks, from creatures and wild beasts, which are

Nude. Individuals wear clothing, animals do not. In a

clothed society, nonetheless, nakedness is unique, and can

be used as a &costume.& As it developed, Greek nudity

came to indicate a comparison between Greek and nonGreek, and also between men and women. The latter

Differentiation is associated with the most fundamental connotation of nakedness, the sense of shame, vulnerability and

exposure it arouses in person (3), and the related sense

of shock provoked by its sight. Clothes was created to

Avert such powerful emotions by covering the body, especially the male genitals, the phallus, and female genitals and breast. A &body taboo& against nakedness in

People is reasonably universal.3 T [********] initially existed in



Classical antiquity, as elsewhere, a garment designed

to hide the wearer's sex organ, a loin cloth, perizoma or

diazoma, as the Greeks generally called it. The attractiveness of

url (4) has frequently been exalted. Its sensual and

aesthetic attractiveness, as Kenneth Clark has shown, has

caused another word to be used: this aspect of nakedness is known as &nudity.&4

In the early Near East Ishtar,5 and in the West

Aphrodite,' the goddesses of love, were traditionally

Nude. The attractiveness and strength of the nude man

body were also commended, and heroes, such as the Master of Animals, were signified naked, or wearing

Just a belt.7 It was the Greeks who brought into our

culture the ideal of male nudity as the best type of

Attractiveness. Greek art and sport exalted the attractiveness of

the youthful male sportsman, whose figure provided the

model for the hero or youthful god. The picture of the

Bare young male, the kouros statue of early Greek art




<img src="http://bacia.photos/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sopot-lonely-boat-on-the-beach.jpg" />

(Comparing with the clothed female, the kore), embodied the arete or magnificence of an aristocratic youth, who

was kaloskagathos, &wonderful and upstanding.&8

Because of the powerful emotions of shame, shock,

lust, admiration, irreverence, pity, and disgust aroused

by the sight of the naked human body, the most frequent organizations are with taboo, magic, and ritual

(5). When the sexual organ was uncovered, its power

was unleashed. Apotropaic and charming nudity, calling for the exposure of male genitals and female

breasts, and the exhibit of the enlarged male phallus have been used from early times, and testify to the

Bearing force of this elaborate picture. As a taboo, it

can protect against the evil eye. Like the Gorgon's

gaze, it can paralyze or http://ournudism.com/livesource/ournudism-episodes-teen-boys-with-family-at-nude-beach-pic.php . The partial nudity or

Vulnerability of a girl's breast or genitals, for instance,

can signify weakness and powerlessness; but it can

also function as powerful magic.9 In art and in life,







belief in such magic powers is well attested in many

cultures throughout history, and has lived into our

own times. Phallic or &priapic& figurines and amulets,

In addition to obscene gestures, still serve as protection

against the evil eye in many parts of the world. When

Attire is ordinary, exhibitionist actions of nakedness generally

have a charming significance. In the kingdom of magic, nudity

wards off a fascination or other harmful form of magic, compels love, and gives strength to one's own practice of

witchcraft and conjuring.&1 Since, then, in a clothed

society nudity was special, monstrous, dangerous, and

powerful,&1 whole nakedness was averted in everyday life. It was saved for special scenarios or particular

Rite services.

Language, too, preserved hints of this magic power

of nakedness. The word, like the fact, had to be

avoided, so that its magic power could be preserved. A

linguistic taboo thereby caused the sort of the word for

&naked& to change, in all the Indoeuropean languages.

Though gymnos, nudus, nackt, etc. were all originally

related to each other-so linguists guarantee us-they

were all transformed in varied and unexpected ways,

so that their initial likeness is almost unrecognizable.12 For most parts of the body, there's what

Devoto called a &succinct& terminology:13 the words for

&heart,& &eye,& &foot,& &knee,& & http://x-nudism.com/community/nudism/nude-student-models.php ,& &tooth,& &eyebrow& are essentially the same in all the Indoeuropean



languages. Differences can be accounted for, even described, by linguistic &rules.& But words for &naked,&

as well as the names of specific parts of the bodyfinger, tongue, hand, and hair-are distinct in the

Distinct languages. How can fkk nudist pageant be clarified? Indoeuropeans obviously had fingers, tongues, hands, hair,

and nakedness; and they must have had names for