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Sounds like the whole thing is over analyzed.
Naked is the normal state and how humanity existed since we first climbed down from the trees. The issues now are not family nudity, but the messages that society sends kids about nudity and their bodies. It isn’t the family that is the problem, but the greater society.
You could apply that to every other basic civilized behavior. It isn’t shitting in the yard that gave the hillbilly’s kids worms, it was the other people with worms shitting there before him. It isn’t eating without washing your hands that make you sick, it is all the other people who contaminate things that is the problem.
Two other points: One, there is bountiful evidence that nudity has not been the normal state for modern man far back into prehistory–possibly even before he evolved into homo sapiens sapiens. Shame and clothing are near universals in primitive cultures.
Second: “Normal” pre-civilized life for humans means most kids don’t live beyond 5 and are subject to brutal violence, rape, slavery, and cannibalism during their short brutish lives thereafter.
I’ll take the clothes, the shame, and all that goes with it thank you.
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