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Old 03-05-2012, 02:18 PM   #25 (permalink)
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This is a very interesting idea, so presumably the idea of humans feeling indecent without clothes is really due to noticing their absence - but were clothes only originally worn for the purposes of keeping warm, or compensating for the lack of hair?
I would think so, yeah. The idea of shame and what not only came about with religion. Tribal societies seem perfectly content letting all their junk hang out, but tribes in arctic climates tend to wrap up...for obvious reasons.
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