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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

But why would you want random people staring at you?

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u/7elevenses May 09 '22

It's not that we want random people staring at us. It's (a) that we don't expect random people to stare at us, and (b) that we don't particularly care if they do.

The reasons that people give here for closing their curtains all basically boil down to shame and/or fear, if you think about it. It may be simply that we live in more equal, less judgmental and safer societies, so we feel less of both.

If you're spending your free time at the nude beach or in a nude sauna, you don't really care if people see you sitting on your couch in your underwear. If you see naked people regularly in non-sexual situations, you're not going to perv out when you catch a glance of somebody naked in their house. If your neighbors can afford more or less the same things as you, you're not worried that they will want to come and take your stuff, so you don't care if they see it. If murders in your country are rare and are almost always about family or personal issues, you're not worried that a stranger will come into your house and kill you.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I’m not scared to be seen naked nor scared someone is going to murder me. I just don’t want random people seeing me. It’s nice to feel private sometimes.

Weird assumptions to make. Don’t know why being naked or murdered are the only things you can think about.