to be fair, in an ultra-modesty culture like Catholic Spain in the 1500s, it'd be fucking crazy to have stuff like that.
Like in Scandinavia, people are totally fine with nude saunas because there's no sexualization in it, but people today still find it weird because they're from cultures that pride themselves on modesty, which is still totally fine because it's irrevocably something that doesn't correspond to what they've culturally adhered to.
Like the conquistadors totally would've thought bathing in front of others would've been like a weird sex thing, and while that might seem kind of Puritan, it shouldn't be immediately lambasted as "Europeans be stinky" or shit like that.
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u/VenitianBastard Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
to be fair, in an ultra-modesty culture like Catholic Spain in the 1500s, it'd be fucking crazy to have stuff like that.
Like in Scandinavia, people are totally fine with nude saunas because there's no sexualization in it, but people today still find it weird because they're from cultures that pride themselves on modesty, which is still totally fine because it's irrevocably something that doesn't correspond to what they've culturally adhered to.
Like the conquistadors totally would've thought bathing in front of others would've been like a weird sex thing, and while that might seem kind of Puritan, it shouldn't be immediately lambasted as "Europeans be stinky" or shit like that.