I can see why birthrates peaked in the GDR in the early 70s…

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    i had a finnish friend once describe to me that teenagers there do not have fetishes about other teenagers boobs because theyve all seen their grandmas tits (sometimes the friends even saw his grandmas tits!). being nude with family and friends is just normalized and not a awooga situation

    tldr being american makes you inherently reactionary, expunge the horniness from yourself over a piece of cloth being on someone or not and realize that we will all be dust soon centrist

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      After moving there, yeah nudity is more normalized, at least in places where nudity is expected. There are saunas in work buildings and coworkers can have business meetings in the sauna. I read somewhere that in the sauna, everyone is equal, something about removing all the symbols of status. Also when I go swimming, it was a shock that Finnish changing rooms are very public, everyone is just naked there. It was uncomfortable for me at first, but once I got over the hurdle of realizing no one gives a shit, we’ve all got bodies, it became quite freeing.

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        The way it manifests is a fetish, though. three-heads-thinking

        Plenty of societies were completely naked, the form of sexual attraction and sexual acts were very different due to this material reality.