sex; 5) for apotropaic reasons, to turn away the effects
of magic, sorcery, the evil eye, and hostile spirits. We
shall see that one or more of these considerations can
Though it doesn't serve as a protection against the
weather (1), nakedness, like clothes or armour, was
used to recognize social groups (2), in life and in artwork.
Garments, actually, differentiates human society, civilized
Folks, from animals and wild creatures, which are
naked. Humans wear clothes, animals don't. In view
clothed society, nonetheless, nakedness is particular, and can
came to indicate a contrast between Greek and nonGreek, as well as between women and men. The latter
distinction is linked with the most fundamental connotation of nakedness, the sense of shame, exposure and
exposure it arouses in person (3), and the related sense
of shock induced by its sight. Garments was created to
avoid such strong emotions by covering the human body particularly the male genitals, the phallus, and female genitals and breast.
People is fairly worldwide.3 There originally existed in
to hide the wearer's sex organ, a loin cloth, perizoma or
diazoma, as the Greeks typically called it. The beauty of
the naked body (4) has frequently been exalted. Its lusty and
aesthetic attractiveness, as Kenneth Clark has revealed, has
caused another word to be used: this facet of nakedness is known as "nudity."4
In the ancient Near East Ishtar,5 and in the West
Aphrodite,' the goddesses of love, were traditionally
naked. The beauty and strength of the naked man
body were also commended, and heroes, like the Master of Animals, were signified naked, or wearing
Just a belt.7 It was the Greeks who brought into our
culture the ideal of male nudity as the highest sort of
beauty. http://www.alternativefuelsolutions.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=noefa.com and sport exalted the beauty of
the youthful male sportsman, whose figure provided the
The image of the
nude young male, the kouros statue of early Greek art
was kaloskagathos, "beautiful and upstanding."8
Due to the strong emotions of shame, shock,
lust, admiration, irreverence, pity, and disgust aroused
by the sight of the naked human body, the most frequent organizations are with taboo, magic, and ritual
(5). When the sexual organ was uncovered, its power
was unleashed. Apotropaic and enchanting nudity, calling for the exposure of male genitals and female
enduring power of this sophisticated picture.
can protect against the evil eye.
http://rlfried.net/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=naturism.top , it can paralyze or protect.
Vulnerability of a woman's breast or genitals, for instance,
also function as strong magic.9 In art and in life,
cultures throughout history, and has endured into our
own times. Phallic or "priapic" figurines and amulets,
as well as obscene gestures, still function as protection
When
dress is normal, exhibitionist acts of nakedness often
have a magic significance. In the realm of magic, nudity
wards off a spell or other dangerous kind of magic, compels love, and gives strength to one's own practice of
witchcraft and conjuring."1 Since, then, in a clothed
society nudity was exceptional, grievous, dangerous, and
powerful,"1 whole nakedness was avoided in regular life. It was saved for special scenarios or particular
ritual ceremonies.
Language, too, sustained hints of this magic power
of nakedness. The word, like the fact, had to be
avoided, so that its magic power could be preserved. A
linguistic taboo consequently caused the sort of the word for
"naked" to transform, in all the Indoeuropean languages.
Though gymnos, nudus, nackt, etc. were all initially
related to each other-so linguists guarantee us-they
were all transformed in diverse and unexpected ways,
so that their first similarity is nearly unrecognizable.12 For most parts of the body, there's what
Devoto called a "compact" vocabulary:13 the words for
"heart," "eye," "foot," "knee," "nose," "tooth," "eyebrow" are fundamentally the same in all the Indoeuropean
languages. Differences can be accounted for, even clarified, by linguistic "rules." But words for "naked,"
Along with the names of particular parts of the bodyfinger, tongue, hand, and hair-are distinct in the
Distinct languages. How can this be explained? Indoeuropeans obviously had fingers, tongues, hands, hair,
and nakedness; and they must have had names for
sex; 5) for apotropaic reasons, to turn away the effects
of magic, sorcery, the evil eye, and hostile spirits. We
shall see that one or more of these considerations can
Though it doesn't serve as a protection against the
weather (1), nakedness, like clothes or armour, was
used to recognize social groups (2), in life and in artwork.
Garments, actually, differentiates human society, civilized
Folks, from animals and wild creatures, which are
naked. Humans wear clothes, animals don't. In view
clothed society, nonetheless, nakedness is particular, and can
distinction is linked with the most fundamental connotation of nakedness, the sense of shame, exposure and
exposure it arouses in person (3), and the related sense
of shock induced by its sight. Garments was created to
avoid such strong emotions by covering the human body particularly the male genitals, the phallus, and female genitals and breast.
People is fairly worldwide.3 There originally existed in
diazoma, as the Greeks typically called it. The beauty of
the naked body (4) has frequently been exalted. Its lusty and
aesthetic attractiveness, as Kenneth Clark has revealed, has
caused another word to be used: this facet of nakedness is known as "nudity."4
In the ancient Near East Ishtar,5 and in the West
Aphrodite,' the goddesses of love, were traditionally
naked. The beauty and strength of the naked man
body were also commended, and heroes, like the Master of Animals, were signified naked, or wearing
Just a belt.7 It was the Greeks who brought into our
culture the ideal of male nudity as the highest sort of
beauty. http://www.alternativefuelsolutions.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=noefa.com and sport exalted the beauty of
the youthful male sportsman, whose figure provided the
The image of the
nude young male, the kouros statue of early Greek art
was kaloskagathos, "beautiful and upstanding."8
Due to the strong emotions of shame, shock,
lust, admiration, irreverence, pity, and disgust aroused
by the sight of the naked human body, the most frequent organizations are with taboo, magic, and ritual
(5). When the sexual organ was uncovered, its power
was unleashed. Apotropaic and enchanting nudity, calling for the exposure of male genitals and female
enduring power of this sophisticated picture.
can protect against the evil eye.
http://rlfried.net/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=naturism.top , it can paralyze or protect.
Vulnerability of a woman's breast or genitals, for instance,