the evolution of clothes?

not sure if i can do this without referencing eden metaphorically.man's great evolutionary advantage is technology. instead of adapting biologically, we began to be able to adapt with our creations. clothing is one such technology, that helped people survive.

coldness = shrinkage = shame.i bet you'll find that even still women are more prone to nudity than men.on a serious note, the story is an etiology on why, written after the fact, and since the story has to do with awareness, so would the reason for wearing clothing.

well my bet was exactly that these cultures are less common than those that glorified female beauty. i just chose to phrase it in a more humerous way.and yes, i suspect they did experience more male nudity. oh, and here's the kicker. it's a self-fulfilling prophesy. this is the reason women wear makeup and not men. and since beauty is a factor in sexual selection, and i'm sure is hereditary -- well you know where i'm going. the women actually DO become more beautiful than the men. ironically, in my art class, we all enjoyed drawing our male model more than our female model. even the straight guys. he just had a nicer looking, more interesting body.but i would also suspect that margin for male beauty is smaller than that of female beauty (in this society). ever hear the expression "the clothes make the man, but women look good in anything?"

i see, yes. all of those make a lot of sense as well.i was just being facetious, really, with my original point.

sure.

no, in fact one would presume it to the be the other way around, thus the "ironically" is that what they're calling it these days? frankly, it probably has a lot to do with the attraction. i've heard stories about the attractive people being more distracting to the class. i myself am the reverse. i find drawing to be very sexual, and attraction helps hold my attention. quite.

well, yes, of course. i'm sort of unusual, and i'm well aware that i am the exception to a good many rules in artistic areas. my drawing process relates entirely to light and shadow. on good nights, i totally disconnect from any cognitive process (ie: "this is a hand! and that's a finger!") and just focus on what things look like.since attraction and sexuality are very low in the hierarchy of conciousness, i find that just a little bit helps to hold my attention. i tend to draw better when i find things asthetically pleasing. you'll find similar things in photographers (also a member of that group) in that they attempt to make even ugly things pretty. i don't really think i draw. because when i do it well, i've shut off my concious processes, and done it entirely mechanically and subconciously. when i think about it, or can't focus into the proper mindset, i can't draw at all. i taught myself years back to see a totally different way. so i can (sometimes) shut one way of seeing off completely, and usually totally at will. i say sometimes because about half the time i just plain suck. but it never seems to have much to do with attraction, since we used the same models for long stretches of time. the first option. my experience in art classes is that i've ignored what most of the teachers have taught, and drawn fundamentally differently than most of the students. for starters, i'm about three times as fast. i had one teacher that did teach differently and i blame it on her even though i don't follow her method exactly.