I had read about it a few days earlier in my search for the best beaches to check out and was immediately interested, but since I was traveling with my mom I set it aside and focused on finding a place with a great view and friendly surf. But then our plan for the day got completely hijacked as they often did in Hawaii by such things as random weather, unmarked streets, and yelp reviews that called something a beach when it was in fact really just very lethally steep but beautiful cliffs upon which the ocean breaks. Was I willing to walk across the beach to the ocean in front of everyone to swim, no matter what I chose? I decided to go with full nudity, and spent the first few naked minutes sitting on my towel and looking around at this completely bizarre new context, in which being naked in public was normal, safe, non-sexual, and unremarkable.

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 related to hairlessness contributed to the increase in brain size, bipedalism , and the variation in human skin color. Although often used interchangeably, "naked" and "nude" are also used to distinguish between the various meanings of being unclothed. While estimates vary, for at least 90, years anatomically modern 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.

Nudity is one of the physiological characteristics of humans, who alone among primates evolved to be effectively hairless. Human sexuality includes the physiological, psychological, and social aspects of sexual feelings and behaviors. In many societies, a strong link between nudity and sexuality is taken for granted. Other societies maintain their traditional practices of being completely or partially naked in social as well as private situations, such as going to a beach or spa.

Situational factors likely play a role in date rape. The sexual inhibition hypothesis suggests that men are typically sexually inhibited by violence and non-consent, but that inhibition can also be disrupted. We attempted to determine if female nudity reduces inhibition of sexual arousal to non-consensual cues in sexually non-aggressive men. In two studies, heterosexual men aged were presented with six 2-min audiotaped narratives depicting consensual sexual interactions, non-consensual sexual interactions rape , and non-sexual interactions neutral involving a man and a woman.