Re:Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’, 19th Century’s m...
by Barrin92 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:31PM
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I don't think the rest of the world is 'ethically behind' or that a healthy relationship to the human body is exclusively European.
It's basically protestant modernity or whatever you want to call it that's caused this repression, also a European export so it's not like we're not to blame for a good portion of it. Huge chunks of the colonised world actually had fairly diverse and healthy attitudes towards nudity and sexuality before the era of colonisation. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards is a great book about sexuality in Iran.
But either way today it does seem to be mostly the US which has the kind of influence that Europe had, and I don't enjoy it because it seems to affect our culture in negative ways.
It's basically protestant modernity or whatever you want to call it that's caused this repression, also a European export so it's not like we're not to blame for a good portion of it. Huge chunks of the colonised world actually had fairly diverse and healthy attitudes towards nudity and sexuality before the era of colonisation. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards is a great book about sexuality in Iran.
But either way today it does seem to be mostly the US which has the kind of influence that Europe had, and I don't enjoy it because it seems to affect our culture in negative ways.