drrionelli: I will always remember the time that my then-girlfriend and I had taken her older son to a gym to enroll in a self-defense class. Well, the younger son, who was all of about 4 years old at the time, had to go to the bathroom. The bathroom was, of course, in the locker/shower room area. As I was taking him through, he saw some naked guys. The look on his face was so perplexed that it was cute! He looked up at me and said, with the innocence of youth, "Why are those men naked?" :huh: I told him that they were taking showers, just like he did at home. And he simply said, "Oh. Did they get dirty and sweaty?" I explained that they had, and he was fine with that. He saw nothing wrong with it, because I made nothing out to be wrong with it, because, indeed, there was nothing wrong with it.

As has been pointed out, some social patterns are hard to unlearn. There's nothing wrong with modesty regarding our bodies UNTIL it becomes shame about our bodies.

We all have the bodies we have, and they are remarkably more similar than different. It's safe to say that when people see yours unclad, they're not as surprised as you might think.