Nudity and sexuality
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Nudity and sexuality is an aspect of how people experience and express their sexuality. Nudity is one facet, and at times a very important facet, in the expression of feelings in intimate relationships in which there is physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment, or sexual activity. Some people have a desire to express such emotions and have those emotions expressed without clothing. Some people may experience erotic and sexual pleasure in seeing their partner in the nude, or to be seen nude by the partner. Some people also experience similar pleasure from seeing others in the nude, and being seen in the nude by others, not necessarily their immediate partner.
Also, historically, nudity has existed in contexts ranging from non-sexual social nudity, to sensual nudity, to sexualized nudity. Many cultures that expect some level of modesty associate nudity with sexuality. When physical sexual attributes are shown in the main stream media of these cultures this is often seen as being sexually related. There are cultural difference regarding the acceptability or sexualisation of nudity , but the definition of what is lewd has also changed over the years, as has the comparative acceptability of male or female nudity.
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