For one, unlike most mammals, humans don't have fur that can keep them warm
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You try coming to the equator and telling us you need to keep warm.
Last I checked even mammals that live along the equator still have hair or fur.
Clothing, fur, and hair protects you from the sun better than sun screen. So yes
So when flowers rub their gametes on passing animals in the hopes that those animals transmit them to other flowers, it's fine, but when I do it, everyone loses their minds???
Well I don't think most animals have to worry about their outfit being safe for work since they're all unemployed freeloaders
Meanwhile bees and ants are unpaid interns
I believe there's a good number of tribes near the equator that don't wear much, so not sure it's even universally NSFW, esp. if your job is a hunter/gatherer. But people wear clothes to protect from sun/pests/plants also. Would imagine we started wearing clothes as soon as we learned how, as it has many benefits, and then the sexualization came as a result of no longer seeing all the parts, and being curious.
Human have covered themselves from the elements basically as long as it was possible for them to do so
humans must’ve walked around naked before covering up for some period of time, right?
Some still do, but they tend to wear some kind of genitalia covering.
Contemporary humans have disproportionately large penises compared to many other animals. Perhaps when we started evolving larger penises we co-evolved small dick jokes ("I was in the pond!"), leading to habitual use of various types of penis-hiding clothing.
If pants are all that keeps massive amounts of dick jokes back, I'm for pants.
Hermit crabs have entered the chat.
The earth was in an ice age around 19,000 - 26,000 years ago - perhaps it started around then when everything was quite a bit cooler.
I mean nude beaches are a thing...
The change happened when we lost all-over body hair.
For me the problem is, with a few exceptions, humans are pretty ugly when naked. I prefer them in clothes.
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