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Why is it when a picture of a man with bared chest is okay but it is not okay with a woman?
I wouldn't want to see most American men's bared chest, heh.
Guys there is no one answer. I mean most of your questions, at least to me, sound almost rhetorical. That's just the way society evolved in America. It's culture. On one side of the spectrum, you have cultures that don't even allow women to show their face and on the other side you have European nude beaches. You'll see causes and relevant facts all throughout America's history and I could literally write a 50 page essay on it.
But I will say this, what I believe is that the root fear that causes this phenomena is due to parents wanting to protect their children from sexuality. Sexuality is natural but the parents are also justified in their fears. This manifests sexuality into something that is a taboo as the generation grows and the cycle repeats itself. I'm not going to say that religion has no part in repressing sexuality but religion's influence on today's society seems to be waning fast (internally not internationally).
but ANYWAY this forum is not the place to discuss phillisophical/phycological/sociological matters (yes my spelling is horrid)