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Why is nudity taboo?

I haven't been to other countries so after all that I have read about alot of european countries I am assuming that its mostly just the USA but I am still asking in general.

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    taboo on nudity is in New Zealand as well...as an indigenous person my answer to that question would be

    christianity.....woman only wore grass skirts and the men wore less...then the missionaries came....the rest is history...

  • 7 years ago

    I think nudity is taboo in the US because of its puritan religious history.

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