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> Nudity and sexual content was always subject to suppression and censorship

Source? To my reading, this is a decisively late Christian/Puritan perspective on sex and the human body.

>>JumpCr+(OP)
As far as I can tell, every human culture has some taboos about these things. In my readings, I've never heard of a culture where the base state is nudity and this is unremarkable. Even in cultures where we think they're nude, they're still working their own modesty standards. I am reminded how in some traditional New Guinean cultures, the males wear nothing but a gourd to cover the genitalia. But they're very shy without the gourds. Similarly, there isn't a single culture ever documented (to the best of my knowledge) where lovers don't usually seek some degree of privacy.

Of course, exactly what counts as nude (or public lovemaking) and just how draconian the repercussions for transgression are, varies greatly.

>>retrac+e8
Also noteworthy, humans seem to be the only species concerned with privacy of sexual matters.

>>JumpCr+(OP)
I knew I shouldn't have made a categorical statement, but it's been the rule rather than the exception everywhere with a printing press. Even the much vaunted US freedom of the press ran into the Comstock laws.

>>ummwha+tj
Hmm, define privacy.

Some snails mate while hanging down from a tree branch by a thread of slime. That's about as private as a snail can get.