History Main / OurNudityIsDifferent

* In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', [[SnakePeople Miia]] is terribly embarrassed when Kimihito sees her shedding her skin. When Kimihito points out he's seen her ''naked'' and she was fine with that, Miia points out that for Lamia, shedding your skin is more embarrassing than simple nudity.

* The Mormons' idea of dressing modestly is that which will cover their temple garments, which are basically a white T-shirt and white shorts with special symbols embroidered on them. Showing any part of their temple garments in public (especially to a non-Mormon) is considered a taboo in the LDS Church. The idea is that if the garments can be seen, then the outfit is too revealing, so anything sleeveless or backless is automatically out, as well as anything that shows too much thigh.

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* In ''LightNovel/BladedanceOfElementalers'', the hero's elemental, Est, considers her thighs and legs to be the only private regions of her body. She'll remove all her clothing without a second thought, but suggestions that she remove her knee-high stockings will bring immediate reprisal for perversion, and in some cases death threats.

* In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', [[SnakePeople Miia]] is terribly embarrassed when Kimihito sees her shedding her skin. When Kimihito points out he's seen her ''naked'' and she was fine with that, Miia points out that for Lamia, shedding your skin is more embarrassing than simple nudity.
* In ''Manga/DuskMaidenOfAmnesia'', [[CuteGhostGirl Kanoe Yuuko]] has no problem with her ghostly body being seen naked, but when her love interest finds her actual corpse she insists that he cover up the skeleton immediately and calls him a pervert for not doing so. Apparently a skeleton is as naked as you can get.

* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', the Kryptonian astronauts Bar-El and Lilo-El wear suits that cover their whole bodies, and Bar is disgusted when, in order to save Lilo from a fall that might have killed her, Superman catches her, touching her with his uncovered hands.
* In John Byrne's ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'', Kryptonian society near the end of the planet's life is so repressed that, when Lara views images of Earth, she freaks out when she sees a field worker (possibly [[{{Foreshadowing}} Jonathan Kent]]) not wearing a shirt.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction occasionally sexualize certain outfits (socks, wet manes, themed costumes like maid dresses, actual lingerie) even though the ponies are otherwise completely naked by default.

* ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'': It's explained at least once (in ''Fanfic/TheBurningOfBerunsWorld'') that [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Orions]] consider it taboo for religious reasons to go about ''clothed'' beyond a ChainmailBikini (for women; men are allowed to cover more skin but not by much) without life or death need (i.e. they make an exception for environment suits and body armor). Damojena "D'Moj" Massana, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch an Orion who adopted aspects of Klingon culture in rebellion against her own]], deliberately wears clothing that covers her up to her neck at all times.
* A surprisingly common bit of fanon for works centered around ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' with its furrier cast. Apparently pants, shirts and the like are optional, but an anthro is only considered naked if lacking shoes and gloves. A good example would ''Webcomic/SonicEggs'' where Sonic is horrified their human hosts remove Clone Shadow's gloves and shoes in the presence of ladies Amy and Cream.
* In ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan,'' Vulcan in nonplussed by the concept of the usually-nudist ponies wearing lingere. He's met with the reply "what's the fun of a Hearts-and-Hooves present without the fancy wrapping to tear off?"
* In ''Fanfic/{{Splint}}'', [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] and Men of Gondor have very different views on nudity. Rukhash thinks nothing of walking about with only a loincloth on, which Cadoc is positively mortified about. When Rukhash figures out why he's embarrassed, she finds it both confusing and hilarious.

* The French film ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' starts with the King of France meeting his secret lover, an English noblewoman, in a barn, and begging her to show him something before they part. She lifts up her long skirt a bit... to show him her ankles. The king treats the sight as if she just flashed him. The [[Film/JustVisiting American remake]] (with the two protagonists being played by the same actors) doesn't have this scene. Counterintuitively, there was no particular nudity taboo in the Middle Ages. Conduct was another matter.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' continuity, the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine have a taboo about showing ''any'' part of their unclothed bodies to ''anyone'' except their mates (and even then, it's done in private), or some midwives when they're born (parents don't even see their children naked). If anyone else ever sees a Tusken Raider's face, he will make it his lifelong quest to kill that person, and not stop until he has succeeded or he himself is dead.

* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' removes all her clothes save for a long-sleeved shift that reaches her ankles to go swimming. By most modern Western standards she's ''overdressed'' to go swimming, but given this is medieval Denmark, she's essentially in [[FullyClothedNudity her underwear]] and the characters react accordingly. When Hamlet and Horatio stumble across her, she and Horatio are quite embarrassed, while Hamlet becomes flirty with her; she chides him for staring and then starts flirting back by slowly rising out of the water. She refuses to get out of the water until they're not looking and then sprints away, clutching her gown over herself.

* ''Literature/TheBrightestShadow'': Used along the lines of real world variants. Some cultures consider pants wildly inappropriate for women, others insist on the torso being entirely covered, and the Rhen are considered scandalous by many despite their clothes seeming normal to most western readers.

* Played for laughs in ''Film/TopsyTurvy'', when one of the cast objects to wearing a kimono that leaves his ankles exposed, feeling this is an inappropriate level of nudity.

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* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow,'' Kermit is considered indecently naked when he loses his collar.
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* In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now God knows... Theatre/AnythingGoes.

* The Kasatha are a minor alien race in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' and a more prominent one in ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}''. Kasatha traditions of modesty require that the mouth be covered at all times. To date, no living Kasatha has been depicted with a bare mouth in either system's official art. The closest artwork has gotten was some reanimated Kasatha skeletons in the first part of the ''Iron Gods'' Adventure Path (and all that tells us is that they have human-like jaws).

* In Humon's ''Webcomic/LoveAndTentacles'', Frida is embarrassed to discover she's been [[http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Visit-from-mother-118619810 waving her smaller tentacles around]] in front of Tom's mother.
* Bastin from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' always hide their feet, from the ball of their toes to their ankles. One can get away with {{Sarashi}}-like bandages, but the fashion seems to be [[BuffySpeak an armored foot-sleeve dealie-o]]. WordOfGod is [[ConvenientlyCommonKink they have a species wide foot fetish]], and thus consider bare feet nudity. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=413 Alaric's statue of Keith]] has ''only'' the feet covered.
* This ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'' [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=338 strip]] brilliantly invokes the old-timey ankle taboo.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', one of the alternate-universe adventuring parties in the Maze of Many came from a world where exposing one's ''nose'' is considered obscene.
* Matilda helpfully explains [[Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures Furcadian]] modesty standards in [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Fashion01.php this bonus comic.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheLeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': Buckaress has such a {{Stripperiffic}} costume that she "feels naked" wearing [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=119-normal an ordinary sweater and jeans.]]
* In ''Webcomic/KazasMateGwenna'' the naked jungle heroes were called by ''Main/DimensionalTraveler'' Jenny Anywhere (A literal ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' clone) to go to the ''Main/AlternateUniverse'' of Earth-N. A world where almost everyone is naked, including the super heroes who fly around with ''nothing'' but masks on.
* Becky from ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' had a very conservative and religious upbringing which drilled it into her that all of the body's naughty parts must always be covered up. When she starts dating the NeverBareheaded Dina, she discovers that her brain extrapolated this information into "any body part that is always covered up ''must'' be naughty", and develops a fetish for seeing the top of Dina's head. Cue multiple failed {{Zany Scheme}}s to get that hat off her head. Of course, the whole time all Becky had to do was ask her to remove it.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Hominids}}'', with the exception of female Mountain-Dwellers it is considered appropriate for any hominid species to go topless due to the culture of Mountain-Dwellers.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'', people of Weaver's species consider it obscene to show the mouth, and Weaver mentions that he had to get used to seeing other species go around unveiled. Justified since they communicate through {{Telepathy}}, only use their mouths to eat, and [[spoiler:are hiding some seriously ScaryTeeth behind those veils]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', most notably "The Arc Specifically About Being Naked", domestic animals (but not wild animals living in civilisation) are considered naked if they're not wearing their collars. This is repeatedly lampshaded as making no sense whatsoever.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Skinner is horrified when his mother goes on a date in an outfit that reveals her... ''figure''.
** There's also an episode set in the 1800s, where the buy-your-photo section of a log flume ride has to deal with a shot of a lady "flashing her private parts". It's her ankle, and the man running the shop claims he'll take care of it before shiftily stowing it in his pocket as if it were porn. This was a parody of the "Flash Mountain" craze.
** Another episode has Marge's mother recount the time she was arrested for indecent exposure, having gone to the beach with her ankles visible.
** One scene that ended up getting cut was one in which the seniors of Springfield shot a "porno" involving old early twentieth-century bathing suits.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Stan sets up a deal with Ikea to refurnish all of [[NoWomansLand Iraq]] so it looks like "your first apartment". This cues a CutawayGag of a citizen appreciating how his new home looks, before being appalled at his wife's blatant display of nudity and telling her to put some clothes on. She's fully clothed except for her eyes so she covers up her eyes and immediately trips over a table.

* Darwin from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' only wears shoes, so his feet when shown are usually pixelated the way the other characters' privates are pixelated in-show. Darwin's feet aren't pixelated when he's wearing a towel, which he still wraps around his [[{{Cephalothorax}} "waist"]].
* Resident Trollan wizard Orko from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' is never seen without his trademark scarf and wizard hat, even when encountered at night wearing pajama robes. This is because Trollans will only show their faces to their true love. The visiting [[BrattyHalfPint Yuckers]] is even chastised by sister Dre-Elle when he darts off screen, leaving behind his scarf and ball cap.

* Famously ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' has the Martians wear little to nothing save for harnesses to hang their weapons and pouches to carry other items, and the occasional jewelry. The artwork on covers and such that show them with loincloths and barely-there nipple coverings on women is ''adding'' clothing. Barsoom culture, simply does not care.

* One of the most enduring and widespread dress styles during the middle ages featured a rather low cut that showed off the breast (even nipples), and an extremely low cut on the back (often down to near the waist). At the same time these dresses tended to be ground length and would never have been shorter than knee length. In modern Europe, women in period dresses of he same style often add a (mostly) anachronistic cloth over the torso while those same re-enacters tend to comment on how their dresses show no leg.

* The degree of cover that is the norm in Islamic countries varies widely by history, geography, and economics. There is a general call to modesty in the Koran, but what meets that criteria is not defined (males are also instructed to be modest, but morality is typically not attached as it is for women). Most Muslim nations meet this with the hijab, a covering for the neck and hair, but several nations and cultures are more relaxed, such as Jordan and the Tuareg. In the Ottoman and Persian Empires and for thousands of years before them, the higher a woman's status the more she covered herself; wearing a veil generally indicated that a woman was high class, and hiding the eyes from view could indicate nobility. Some of their successor nations, particularly in the Gulf, have taken this to an extreme in part to emphasize their recent economic rise, in part due to conservative movements that have increased influence since the latter half of the 1900s. What is considered indecent continues to vary - one recent innovation is the burkini, which covers the hair, hands, and legs and includes a skirt to allow for modesty at the beach and in competitive swimming.

** Trolls consider near-nudity to be the norm; it's when a troll woman starts putting clothes ''on'' that she's singled out as provocatively-dressed. Troll "robers" from the Strippers' Guild actually put on layer after layer of clothing during their acts.

* ''Defiant'':
** Kris attends a festival on the Hikilan islands, which are ethnic Polynesian, in native garb. Which for her as a "virgin" (i.e. an unmarried woman) means lots of body paint, flower garlands around her waist to cover her privates, and nothing else.

* In ''Webcomic/KazasMateGwenna'' the naked jungle heroes were called by ''Main/DimensionalTraveler'' Jenny Anywhere (A literal ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' clone) to go to the ''Main/AlternateUniverse'' of Earth-N. A world where almost everyone is naked, including the super heroes who fly around with [[http://kaza-and-gwenna.thecomicseries.com/comics/163/ nothing but masks on.]]

* In ''Literature/WorldWar'', the [[TheReptilians Race]] wear no clothing (except in cold climates), but they are covered by intricate bodypaint from head to toe, which indicates their rank and position. The more intricate the pattern, the higher the rank. Naturally, bodypaint has to be reapplied daily (sometimes, more frequently). Fast-forward after the end of the hostilities, and the next generation of humans see nothing wrong with walking around in barely any clothing (sometimes, no clothing at all, females included), using bodypaint patterns as substitute. Naturally, the older generation finds this improper, but good luck telling teenagers that. In the final novel, the protagonists return to Earth in the 21st century and discover that there is now absolutely nothing wrong with a gameshow girl walking around with her breasts bare on live TV, while half the audience is likewise topless or completely nude (may or may not be covered in bodypaint).

* Darwin from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' only wears shoes, so his feet when shown are usually pixelated the way the other characters' privates are pixelated in-show.

* In ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', [[SnakePeople Miia]] is terribly embarrassed when Kimihito sees her shedding her skin. When Kimihito points out he's seen her ''naked'' and she was fine with that, Miia points out that for Lamia, shedding your skin is more embarrassing than simple nudity.

** Another, set in the 1800's, has Betty and Veronica nearly arrested for wearing men's swimwear -- a t-shirt and knee-length trunks combo.'
** When Betty and Veronica, in a story, meet their old version of the '50s (through the [[PortalToThePast Memory Lane]]), Veronica is called out by the two girls for her "skimpy" outfit that BareYourMidriff.

* A surprisingly common bit of fanon for works centered around ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' with its furrier cast. Apparently pants, shirts and the like are optional, but an anthro is only considered naked if lacking shoes and gloves. A good example would ''WebComic/SonicEggs'' where Sonic is horrified their human hosts remove Clone Shadow's gloves and shoes in the presence of ladies Amy and Cream.

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* Whenever Lucy gets naked in ''Manga/FairyTail'' and is embarrassed about it, she reacts by covering her breasts only. Even during the scene where she is naked in her male friend Natsu's company, she leaves her lower body completely exposed. Though it's probably also a visual censor trick since it's easier to conceal her lower body than upper body in most panels.

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** ''Fanfic/ChangelingCourtshipRituals'' has Queen Chrysalis questioning the point of strippers when ponies are usually naked anyway. Pinkie Pie explains that "it's not what they're not wearing, but how they take it off".

* A surprisingly common bit of fanon for works centered around ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' with its furrier cast. Apparently pants, shirts and the like are optional, but an anthro is only considered naked if lacking shoes and gloves. A good example would ''WebComic/SonicEggs'' where Sonic is horrified their human hosts remove CloneShadow's gloves and shoes in the presence of ladies Amy and Cream.
* In ''FanFic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan,'' Vulcan in nonplussed by the concept of the usually-nudist ponies wearing lingere. He's met with the reply "what's the fun of a Hearts-and-Hooves present without the fancy wrapping to tear off?"

* The French film ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' starts with the King of France meeting his secret lover, an English noblewoman, in a barn, and begging her to show him something before they part. She lifts up her long skirt a bit... to show him her ankles. The king treats the sight as if she just flashed him. The [[Film/JustVisiting American remake]] (with the two protagonists being played by the same actors) doesn't have this scene.
** Counterintuitively, there was no particular nudity taboo in the Middle Ages. Conduct was another matter.

* In the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series, serfs on Proton are required to go naked at almost all times, and thus, for one serf to ''conceal'' their intimate regions from another is considered a racy act. Protective weaar ''is'' allowed for the jobs that need it, and if it's part of one of the Games... but that's it. Once you're done, '''clothes off'''.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' people are somewhat relaxed about female nudity; for example the protagonist stripping off the wet clothes of an unconscious, injured woman seems to be no big deal. He has to be chaperoned, though, for which purpose a couple of female toddlers seem to be enough. Male nudity heavily depends on whether the man's sisters are present - in public, a man should be veiled, but a group of tailors are allowed to see him in his underwear, with his older sisters present at all times.
* Literature/TheBrightestShadow: Used along the lines of real world variants. Some cultures consider pants wildly inappropriate for women, others insist on the torso being entirely covered, and the Rhen are considered scandalous by many despite their clothes seeming normal to most western readers.
* In Creator/FrederikPohl's ''The Coming Of The Quantum Cats'' novel, which concerns the interaction of multiple alternate timelines, one such timeline involves the USA being dominated by extreme moral conservatives (due, it seems bizarrely, to the influence of the wealthy Arabs who dominate world affairs). In which even ''men'' are not allowed to wear topless bathing costumes--they must resort to the OldTimeyBathingSuit, something which the main character only dares try to remove when no-one else is looking.

* In the ''Literature/DarknessSeries'', the hot desert country of Zuwayza has no nudity taboo, its people usually going naked except for sandals and a wide-brimmed hat. Ambassadors of other countries there naturally find this a bit disquieting, though one from the kingdom of Algarve 'goes native' and sometimes turns up to meetings naked... and the Zuwayzi find ''this'' disquieting because all Algarvians are circumcised, not a custom they have ever used.
* In Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's Literature/{{Darkover}} novels, women commonly wear their hair in butterfly clips so as not to expose the nape of the neck, which would be indecent.

** This prudishness seems to be entirely confined to the presence of women, however -- in ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld'', the Archchancellor is completely oblivious as to why another wizard thinks he's "inappropriately dressed" after hurriedly getting out of the bath -- he's wearing his [[RobeAndWizardHat hat]], after all, and that's what matters.
*** Although that's only around other (male) wizards - when an actual woman enters the scene, he hastily requisitions another hat to cover himself with.

* In Creator/RobertJSawyer's novel, ''Illegal Alien'', the aliens are given a different view on the taboo than humans as to emphasize their otherness. One of the two groups of aliens which make first contact in the novel posses a taboo against internal anatomy, believing that the guts are not to be shown to the world because they are held within. By contrast, they hold no qualms about nudity or sexuality in any manner. This is emphasized greatly in a trial scene in which an alien is asked to explain their anatomy to the court, and they proceed to have great troubles bringing himself to do so, while has no trouble explaining or demonstrating the nature of their sexuality and, in fact, expresses confusion over the human tendency to hide it. The latter stems from the fact that their females [[BizarreAlienReproduction have four uteruses, and thus usually mate with four males in succession]].

** In ''Defiant'', Kris attends a festival on the Hikilan islands, which are ethnic Polynesian, in native garb. Which for her as a "virgin" (i.e. an unmarried woman) means lots of body paint, flower garlands around her waist to cover her privates, and nothing else.

* In ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'':

* In Robertson Davies' ''The Rebel Angels'', Maria and her mother host a dinner party for purposes of ensnaring Clement Hollis, whom Maria is in love with. Mamusia instructs her daughter to wear a low-cut top - they're Romani, so while their legs must be covered, cleavage is just fine.

* In ''Creator/RobertAHeinlein'' juvenile ''Literature/TimeForTheStars'' written in 1956, the hero leaves for a decades-long relativity trip and when he returns is shocked to find that standards have changed: his father, late in the 20th Century, would never have allowed his sisters to appear, even at the breakfast table, without hats.

* In Kilgore Trout's ''Venus on the Half-Shell'',[[note]]"Kilgore Trout" was a fictional sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut. However, ''Venus on the Half-Shell'' was actually ghostwritten by {{Creator/Philip Jose Farmer}}.[[/note]] an alien race known as the Shonks regard their faces as their private parts. Thus, they always wear masks in public, and arrest the space-travelling protagonist for indecent exposure.
* The classic SF story ''The Wheels of If'' by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp has a scene on an alternate Earth where belly buttons are considered obscene... but nothing else is, resulting in BarelyThereSwimwear of an unusual sort. The protagonist (who is from our Earth) doesn't realize this at first, he just notices that everyone seems to be walking around what he considers to be nude, so he takes his clothes off to fit in ... and is promptly arrested for "Shameful Outputting" of his navel (the person explaining exactly what he's being charged with can barely bring himself to say it).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]]: Queen Victoria refers to Rose (wearing overalls) as being "naked".
** Apparently, [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor you don't wear clothes to church]]… but are expected to use holograms[[note]]It is specifically stated in the episode that you are only required to be naked while attending the church, but you can use a hologram to hide the nakedness if you want to, because the priests are trained to see through the holograms anyway. It's mostly for those "prudes" who are scared of being naked.[[/note]]… which the clergy can see through anyway.

* In the Cops episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', a foreign Sikh neighbor denies spying on Joy in her trailer and says "Look at the way she dresses! I can see her elbows any time I want to!".

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--> "Pretty little Sally goes walking down the alley, displays her pretty ankles for all of the men. They can see her garters, but ''not'' for free and gratis -- an inch or two, and then she knows when to say when!"

* VideoGame/StarControl contains two examples.

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* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of ''Film/KateAndLeopold'', she lists "can't show your ankles" as one of the problems with Leopold's time period.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' features a planet where most of the [[StarfishAliens objects and creatures are made out of gears]]. In one episode Rick removes two cogs off Gearhead's crotch and replaces his 'mouth' cogs with them. The guards see this and react in disgust.

-->'''Max:''' One century it's corsets and bustles and the next thing you know - -
-->'''Skully:''' It's platforms and miniskirts?

* In ''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''juvenile''Literature/TimeForTheStars'' written in 1956, the hero leaves for a decades-long relativity trip and when he returns is shocked to find that standards have changed: his father, late in the 20th Century, would never have allowed his sisters to appear, even at the breakfast table, without hats.

->''"In olden days a glimpse of stocking\\
Was looked on as something shocking…"''
-->-- '''Music/ColePorter''', "Anything Goes"

** The cultures based on the Vorin religion consider a woman with her left hand bare to be provocative. Commoner women wear a glove to cover it while noblewomen wear dresses with left sleeves that cover the entire arm and hand, buttoned shut. Using it for anything at all is considered a breach of propriety; lighteyed women are very good at working with only one hand.

** It's implied a few times that this tradition was created [[StayInTheKitchen to keep women from using Shardblades]]. The Blades are impossibly lightweight for their size, but you still need two hands to wield one properly. Women responded by starting a tradition that it was unseemly for [[NeverLearnedToRead a man to know how to read]], resulting in women being in charge of all scholarship and paperwork. Dalinar muses that he's not sure which gender got the better end of that deal.

* The Mormons' idea of dressing modestly is that which will cover their temple garments, which are basically a white T-shirt and white shorts with special symbols embroidered on them. Showing any part of their temple garments in public (especially to a non-Mormon) is considered a taboo in the LDS Church. So any strapless or tank tops are automatically out, as well as anything too short to cover the bottom part.
** It's also pretty common (although not universal, due to being cultural rather than religious) for the women to avoid exposing their stomachs or backs.

* In some modern Southeast Asian countries, it is considered somewhat indecent for women to show their shoulders or neckline, but wearing extremely short shorts or skirts is perfectly fine. At the same time, men don't typically go topless as often as they do in the West. It is not uncommon to see t-shirts over swimsuits for both men and women.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4mjXTEPnE this]] Manadaly Bay commercial, the [[PoolScene topless pool]] when at the beginning a couple of [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl women are seen sunbathing topless]] and especially when Suzanna Jones takes her bikini top off.

* In ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', [[SnakePeople Miia]] is terribly embarassed when Kimihito sees her shedding her skin. When Kimihito points out he's seen her ''naked'' and she was fine with that, Miia points out that for Lamia, shedding your skin is more embarassing than simple nudity.

* ''Art/NymphsAndSatyr'': Common for Myth/ClassicalMythology art, [[ItsNotPornItsArt not a single character is clothed]], the only bit of textile being a bit of transluscent fabric a nymph is playfully wrapping around the satyr's arm. [[SceneryCensor While all of the genitalia is tastefully censored with said fabric and a tree branch]], breasts and butts are on full-display.

* A surprisingly common bit of fanon for works centered around ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' with its furrier cast. Apparently pants, shirts and the like are optional, but a anthro is only considered naked if lacking shoes and gloves. A good example would ''WebComic/SonicEggs'' where Sonic is horrified their human hosts remove CloneShadow's gloves and shoes in the presence of ladies Amy and Cream.

* ''Film/TheHourOfThePig'': It's accurately shown that Renaissance Europeans had a very casual view over nudity, even with the opposite sex. Men and women are bathing freely in the bathhouse. Courtois even discusses this with the village priest, who's in a tub with him, asking about its morality. The priest replies that it's only immoral if the person is your close relative, like a sister (he then gets [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted as a nude nun walks by]]).

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' continuity, the Tusken Raiders of Tattooine have a taboo about showing ''any'' part of their unclothed bodies to ''anyone'' except their mates (and even then, it's done in private), or some midwives when they're born (parents don't even see their children naked). If anyone else ever sees a Tusken Raider's face, he will make it his lifelong quest to kill that person, and not stop until he has succeeded or he himself is dead.

* Bastin from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' always hide their feet, from ther ball of their toes to their ankles. One can get away with {{Sarashi}}-like bandages, but the fashion seems to be [[BuffySpeak an armored foot-sleeve dealie-o]]. WordOfGod is [[ConvenientlyCommonKink they have a species wide foot fetish]], and thus consider bare feet nudity. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=413 Alaric's statue of Keith]] has ''only'' the feet covered.

* One online picture dealing with a [[HornyDevils succubus']] mode of dress uses the "inverted" version. Everyday running around is stark nude, "Daring" is only a corset, and by the end she's inredibly embarrassed to be dressed in a parka and snow hat.

** An apocryphal story has a 17[[superscript:th]]-century Spanish queen[[note]]Said to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_of_Austria Mariana of Austria]], second wife of Philip IV[[/note]] passing through a town renowned for its silk production, where the merchants presented her with a gift of stockings. Since they were effectively lingerie in the time period, her scandalized attendant threw them aside, declaiming, "Know that a Queen of Spain ''has no legs''.". The story ends with Mariana, who was around fourteen years old by then, crying as she feared her legs would be cut off once in Spain.

** With Asian countries, this has something to do with under the Confucian custom, following Confucius' belief that it was considered barbaric for a man to not cover his head as the hair was sacred and should not be shown except at home. As for the Middle East, this link back to the modesty belief in Islam (see above) and the products of the pre-Islamic practices (like the Persians and Assyrians).

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