nudity

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/29/2022
  

  Historians Ask what the Decline of Nude Beaches Tells Us about the Internet's Influence

  Historians of naturism Sarah Schrank and Stephen L. Harp believe that the panoptical nature of social media is eroding a longstanding divergence between European and American attitudes about nudity in public spaces, particularly among young women. 

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• 10-11-15
  

  The New Censors: Facebook and Instagram

  by Brian Hoffman

  In the social media age, it is not necessarily morality that determines what we can see, it’s branding.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  4-30-13
  

  Greeks to stop Qatari nude cover-up

  Nudity is an all or nothing kind of thing, as Qatari authorities recently discovered. Seek to drape the naughty bits of a pair of ancient sculptures of nude male athletes, and you end up with no nudes at all.This is precisely what happened at Alriwaq Doha exhibition space. Having loaned the gallery the two sculptures for its Olympics Past and Present exhibition, Athens preferred to see them returned than exhibited with their modesty veiled.The Qatari anxiety about displaying the naked body has a different root — but is no more or less valid — than that which saw thousands of statues suffer the chop across the history of the Western world....