Nudity

From Philosopedia

NUDITY

• Clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence in society.

Mark Twain

Freethinkers are quick to point out that all humans are, when born, atheists as well as nudists. Ethnologists, in explaining how, why, and when societal mores operate for or against such conditions, note that forces within Western civilization, mainly male, have particularly been successful in clothing the males and hypocritically speaking out against premarital intercourse.

This may or may not, according to a Manhattan wag (and “size-queen”), have inspired French artist Sylvie Blocher to paint “The Bride, Disappointed, Gets Dressed Again.”

(See entry for Christian.)