Is nudity a sin?

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Moscati said:
I seem to remember C.S. Lewis saying something about modesty being a cultural construct. That is to say, an African tribal woman who does not wear much clothing is not necessarily immodest–she is modest by the standards of her culture. I once visited a Hindu temple where non-Hindi guests wearing shorts/tank tops were given wraps to cover themselves, but traditional Indian dress that showed midriffs were perfectly acceptable.

Nudist colonies, though, are generally rebelling against the prevailing standards of modesty in their cultures–they are purposefully unveiling what everyone around them agrees should remain hidden. That’s a no go.
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There is no cultural construct. Do you think missionaries said nothing to women in foreign lands who were partly exposed?

Peace,
Ed
 
yesukristus said:
Do we Catholics consider the people walking around naked in nudist colonies as living in sin? Certainly it sounds like an offense against modesty…
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No its not a sin if one walks around naked in a nudist colonies. There in a privite setting, not in public. Its not a sin but if you were to go naked in public you would get arrested for indeciency in public because society see the naked human body as taboo, something to ashamed of when infact its not. What is so sinful about it? Where is it written in Scripture that it is a sin? It all comes down to intent. If your intent is to arouse someone, other then your spouse, then yes it would be a sin. But if your intent is not to arouse someone, then it is not a sin. Its the intent thats the sin not the action.
 
I’m sure the person who started this topic got their answer well over 9 months ago. 🙂
 
Daegus said:
I’m sure the person who started this topic got their answer well over 9 months ago. 🙂
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True, just an interesting topic to know how many people think they know what God thinks. 🙂 This, I believe, has more to do with personal morals and personal sin, the holy sin.

Plus people ask questions about faith and we hand them a Bible. Once their questions are answered, do we abandon them or the Bible?
 
Context is everything with respect to this question:
  1. In the shower or bath: no.
  2. At the dr’s office, no.
  3. In the marital bedroom, no.
  4. For sleeping alone, or in the marriage bed, no.
  5. When changing clothes, no.
  6. To have Michelangelo paint or sculpt your likeness, no.
For those instances where it is sinful, I think most people have enough imagination to figure that out 😛
 
Not unless it gets you ‘excited’.

God made Adam and Eve naked, did he not?

We are born naked, are we not?
 
I don’t think the people walking around nude in a nudist colony are necessarily in sin. First of all, it would get boring after awhile and secondly, well, most people’s bodies in the nudist colony are probably not something you would want to look at anyway.
 
Whether nudity is a sin or not should not hedge on the attractiveness of the nude body. :eek:

I don’t think it’s a sin. And going topfree is not. 🙂
 
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