Nudity, not prudity.

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“…researchers from the Karolinska Institute report that they have induced a “body-swap” illusion, whereby subjects perceived the body of another person as belonging to themselves…

…the sense of body ownership can be distorted experimentally in healthy individuals, by manipulating the sensory inputs entering the brain…”

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“Most contemporary discussions about homosexuality, in one way or another, contribute to the larger debate between the essentialist and the social constructionist understanding of sexuality. For people who think of sexuality from the perspective of essentialism, sexuality represents a biological drive, a natural given. Therefore, sex differences or differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals are scientifically concrete and distinguishable….

Social constructionists often engage themselves with the task of criticizing the assumptions made by essentialists and argue that sexuality is not a biological given but a cultural construct. While essentialists view categories such as “gay” and “straight” as universally objective, social constructionists understand them as subjective in the sense that the labeling process itself carries a whole host of specific cultural connotations and social interpretations that are neither universally coherent nor historically identical. What “gay” means today at the dawn of the twenty-first century, for constructionists, is drastically different from what “sexual inversion” meant a century ago…”