Nakedness

[WildCatRupe]

some relevant pieces of Catecism:

2521 Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.
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2524 The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person.

my question is....what is it that "should remain hidden?" is it the physical body? or is the intimate center of the person something far less tangible and less connected to the physical being? does being naked around people other than your spouse violate the precepts of modesty and chastity? or is what we're really supposed to protect our passion, our love-making, our [i]eros[/i], our expressions of sexuality, our intimacy? y'all can prolly figure out MY feelings on this issue, lol, but what do y'all think?

Timmy

[morostheos]

Basically, one's level of modesty should follow cultural norms at minimum, and should also take into account what you are "saying" with how you dress. It's hard to state that specifically, but it's pretty easy to see what people say with their styles of clothes. We should never entice others to look at our bodies as objects because of our clothes/lack thereof. I don't think you can set any specific guidelines, and that's probably why the Catechism doesn't either.