Hey, everybody's family from Free Domain.

Just a couple of miscellaneous thoughts that have come out of recent conversations with the good folks on the planet.

And the first is I was having a conversation with somebody not super long ago about,

it was interesting, the question of the philosophy of nudism came up.

And I wanted to cough out a couple of thoughts about that because, you know, there's certainly the one perspective that, you know,

the reason we have to wear clothes is control and shame and bullying and conformity and so on.

And, I mean, those things may have elements of truth in them, of course, but my perspective

was a little different. I'd love to hear what you think. My argument was something along the lines of

this. If we look at why most cultures, almost all cultures, have course, at least the genitals to be covered up,

all the way from sort of pygmies in South America or other places, and all the way through

the Bushmen, Kalahari, and, course European cultures that we cover up genitals.

And most cultures, at least not third world cultures, will cover up breasts, but not all, right?

I mean, particularly very tropical climates will mainly breast open and exposed, as I remember vividly from the

national geographics of my youth. And so the question is, well, why would there be evolutionary pressures

towards the covering up of janitalia in a tribe? So, as usual, I did my little mental sorting thing,

you got tribe A, and you've got

Tribe B. Tribe A is fully naked. Tribe B covers up erogenous zones, right? Not Dr. Wayne

Dyer's erroneous zones, erogenous zones. Breasts, butt, and genitalia. And we've got Tribe A covers them up.

Tribe B does not cover them up.

Who is going to have an evolutionary advantage?

Well, one of the challenges of leaving genitals exposed is that it is impossible to cover up

or hard to cover up.

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