Being naked from a girls point of view

Throughout history, artists have seen the nude figure as a beautiful expression of womanhood, in all its glorious shapes and sizes. But ask the average female how she views her own bod in the buff and it gets a lot more complicated. Nakedness reveals everything we usually get to hide: vulnerabilities that date back to high school, parts you struggle to love or just outright hate , scars, stretch marks, etc. Women's Health conducted a reader survey in to chart that complex relationship we have with our stripped-down selves. Now, though it's just four years later, a lifetime of change has occurred on the body front.

Nudity is a state of being in which a human is not wearing clothing or specifically is not covering the genitals. Worldwide, current social norms vary from banning nudity except in complete privacy to the acceptance of public nudity as a natural human state. Nakedness , or the loss of body fur, was one of the physical characteristics that marked the biological evolution of modern humans from their hominini ancestors. Adaptations to hairlessness contributed to the increase in brain size, bipedalism , and the variation in skin colors. Although often used interchangeably, "naked" and "nude" are also used to distinguish between the various meanings of being unclothed. While estimates vary, for many thousands of years humans wore no clothing, the invention of which was part of the transition from being not only anatomically but behaviorally modern. It is generally accepted that the widespread adoption of clothing occurred as people migrated to climates that required protection from the elements.

The motives are surprisingly complex. Sexting naked or suggestive photos to a partner is pretty common these days. But why people sext explicit pics isn't always discussed.

D, author of Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy. But while the butt-naked you may not be hitting the same arousal buttons as her bared bod does in your eyes, you can be sure that she is checking you out nonetheless. All of you.