Our opinions are largely based on two things, individual mindset and socio-cultural imbibition, both of which are again interdependent. Historically, cultures all over the world have associated how a person expresses her/his sexuality with morality. Cultures evolved and stringencies dissolved in keeping with the times. I guess you need a time-machine to that era when these guidelines were being made and ask those people in whose minds the ideas originated. Ask that early man who first used leaves to clothe himself, what did he find so wrong about roaming naked? Ask that bunch of blokes, what made them come up with this ingenious idea of tying a man and a woman for life in a relationship called marriage?
When I think of it, I see one reason. And I reckon that to be pretty sound. How do you define human beings? Just as animals? Or we add the cachet of social with animal?
We live in a society, what stands us apart is a certain discipline we are expected to follow in our social structure. And different cultures have diverse social structures. Cultural and moral guidelines weren't made by one man, they are a product of a collective mindset over ages. My mindset may not reflect that of yours, does that make me right and you wrong?
What is largely acceptable in a society is what a vast majority of people living there feel right, feel comfortable with. A culture is simply meant for harmonious living among people, those guidelines are there simply so that I don't hurt the sensibilities of others with my actions, but of course in a country like India, it's up to me, whether I want to follow those or not.
I find the idea of adults making a public display of their nudity repulsive. It's just how I feel as simple as that. There is no "why I feel the way I do?" I just do.
Who said the Indian society finds something immoral or unacceptable about sex, isn't our population an indication of otherwise? What the society doesn't particularly condone is sex outside or without the wedlock. And a majority likes and prefers it this way.
The Indian culture at present is a reflection of an average Indian's belief system, you may find that conservative, but a majority living here finds it conducive for a sustainable existence.
For example compare it with the present day American culture which is a lot more open than Indian. How is that openness helping their society? While an average Indian teenager's life revolves around academics, sports, parents and family an average American teenager by the age of 15-16 is having sex with many teenaged girls getting pregnant. When I read items of American popular culture, I feel sad for these kids, I mean, guys enjoy your childhood while it lasts, it isn't anyway going to last for long. A 15 year old might resemble an adult physically but he/she is still a freaking child!
If lack of openness in a culture preserves childhood innocence, I don't see anything wrong with that lack of openness or anything right with the so called openness. But then that's just my opinion.
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