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- See also Nudity in the home.
Attitudes toward the nudity of children and children seeing nude people vary substantially, depending on the child's culture, age and the context of the nudity. They have also changed over time and particularly in recent years.
General attitudes
Young children cannot have any expectation of privacy when nude for the purely functional reasons of physical cleaning and maintenance by adults. Children usually continue to be bathed nude in the presence of their parents or other adults for some years, varying by cultures and individual family approaches. Modesty typically only begins to appear after the child becomes self-maintaining and no longer requires constant adult supervision for bathing and dressing.
Some parents believe nudity is both physically and emotionally healthy for children. Web columnist Stacy DeBroff suggests that nudity in very young children also helps with toilet training.
The degree to which depiction of child nudity is considered appropriate or not varies; see also Nudity in art.
There have been incidents in which snapshots taken by parents of their infant or toddler children bathing or otherwise naked were destroyed or turned over to law enforcement as child pornography.
United Kingdom
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British TV is required to avoid displaying scenes of sex from 5:30am to 9pm (the so-called "watershed") to avoid viewing by children. The Broadcasting Code requires that "Nudity before the watershed must be justified by the context."
Non-western cultures
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In various cultures children can go publicly naked (fully or strategically) while adults don't, usually until an age or ceremony considered the start of adolescence or of adulthood. An example of a rite of passage in a Benin tribe, traditional body scarification on the head is performed on a small child while completely naked, but a boy being initiated as an adult bares only the torso (where the scars are made).
Attitudes toward nudity vary greatly within East Asia: China and North Korea tend toward the conservative side, while Japan and Hong Kong are more liberal. In Japan, nudity is still the norm in public baths and pool showers, and outdoor hot spring baths in particular were mixed gender until the Meiji period. Over the last century, this has slowly been changing with most public baths in large cities now offering separate baths for men and women or requiring the use of swimsuits. It is also common for young children to join a parent of the opposite gender in a public bath, or to wander around naked while changing at the beach. Unisex baths persist in the countryside, but there has been a slow movement to sex-segregated baths as Japan urbanizes. Sumo wrestlers and the participants at Shinto nude festivals wear Fundoshi, a loin cloth which exposes the buttocks.
Despite the relative prevalence of traditional attitudes for adults in China, however, children continue to wear open shorts, permitting them to more easily relieve themselves. In the preparations for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, some have called for the end of the traditional permissiveness for adult males to go shirtless in public during warm weather.
Nudity in physical education
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United States
In the United States and English-Speaking Canada, students at tax funded schools have historically been required to shower communally with classmates of the same sex after physical education class. In the United States, public objections and the threat of lawsuits have caused a number of school districts in recent years to choose to make showers optional for students. A court case in the State of Colorado noted that students have a reduced expectation of personal privacy in regards to "communal undress" while showering after physical education classes.. According to an interview with a middle school principal, most objections to school showers that he had heard were actually from the student's parents rather than from the student.
For religious reasons, many Muslim parents strongly object to communal school showers and demand privacy partitions. Other parents have raised objections that the inclusion of compulsory showers in the physical education curriculum conflicts with the privacy beliefs of their families. An increasing number of schools have responded to these complaints by allowing students to shower in swimsuits or by constructing some secluded showers to allow a privacy option for any student who so chooses.
Europe
Europeans have generally been more insistent that all students shower communally.
The relation to nudity varies substantially within Europe, with Scandinavia in the north being the most open to it. Children in Scandinavia are very likely to grow up with a relaxed attitude to adult nudity, and activities such as sharing baths, saunas and bathrooms with parents and siblings are common. Communal bathing before and after sports activities in public and private places is therefore common and may even occasionally be mixed. Generally, public places are required to provide a same gender changing area.
In Austria, Germany and the Netherlands the general approach to nudity is relaxed, though not everywhere. Certain Catholic communities may represent a much stricter approach to public nudity than the Protestant communities. Commonly bathing in schools and after sports activities does though remain the rule.
In southern Europe, notably in Italy and Malta, the approach is different. It is very unlikely that children will ever have seen their parents nude. Approaches to nudity can vary within each country. People in northern Germany are more open to nudity and nudism than people in southern Germany.
Child nudity in art
References
- Higonnet, Anne (1998). Pictures of Innocence - The History and Crissi of Ideal Childhood. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28048-7.
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(help) - DeBroff, Stacy. "Ready for Potty Training?". Retrieved 2006-09-13.
- Kincaid, James R. "Is this child pornography?". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- "The Ofcom Broadcasting Code". Ofcom (Office of Communications, UK). 2005-07-25. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
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Hansard "House of Commons Hansard debate transcription (part 31)". UK Parliament Publications & Records. 1996-07-01. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
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value (help) - ACLU of Washington. "ACLU-WA's Work for Student Rights". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- "TRINIDAD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 v. CARLOS R. LOPEZ". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- "Interview with John Pleacher 2/16/87". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- Chaudhry, Rashid (1988). "Ahmadi Muslim Boy Expelled for Not Bathing Nude". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
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(help) - Mapes, Terri. "Sexuality in Scandinavia: How Scandinavia Looks at Sexuality". Retrieved 2007-10-17.
Further reading
- The Naked Child Growing Up Without Shame/Social Nudity/Its Effect on Children by Dennis Craig Smith, William Sparks. Elysium Growth Pr, ISBN 1-55599-001-0.
- Storey, Mark Children, Social Nudity and Academic Research Nude & Natural magazine, 23.4 Summer 2004.
- Storey, Mark Children, Social Nudity and Scholarly Study
- Storey, Mark "Dr. Spock and Family Nudity." Nude & Natural 18.3 (1999): 68-80.
- Story, Marilyn D. "Factors Associated with More Positive Body Self-Concepts in Preschool Children." Journal of Social Psychology 108.1 (1979): 49-56.
- Thomas Mann: Mario and the Magician - includes an incident where an 8-year-old girl is briefly nude on the beach, causing problems
See also
External links
- telegraph.co.uk: "Nudity in the home: Nothing so divides families as the issue of nakedness, says Marianne Kavanagh" 09/02/2008
- wikiHow: How to Practice Nudity in your Family
- iVillage: Nudity: Inappropriate in front of the kids? by Gayle Peterson, PhD
- St. Petersburg Times, Can't critic see camp is nude, but not lewd? By JAN GLIDEWELL Published June 22, 2003
- The Bi-College News: Protect the Children From All that Nudity: Nude Art and Young Minds By Jessie Post, October 10, 2006.
- About.com Child Care: Could a Sex Offender Be Coaching Your Kid? By Robin McClure
- The Detroit News: Coaches slip crime checks; kids at risk By Fred Girard, March 14, 2004
- Kindergarten Children should be Encouraged to Dance Naked and Masturbate in Pre-Schools says Norwegian Child Expert
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