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There ought to be a Ph.D. dissertation that presents work on nipples in art. I want to know since when the human race decides to focus only on female nipples and completely ignoring their counterparts!
With this new need came a new culture with large restrictions around sexuality and reproduction and anything associated with it, and also cultural restriction around women's freedom to choose the person they should have sex with, like the institution of marriage and stuff like that.
I'm a history teacher so I couldn't help myself. Sorry!
That said, I'm still trying to make the connection between your two paragraphs. For the second one, "With this new need came a new culture with large restrictions around sexuality and reproduction and anything associated with it, and also cultural restriction around women's freedom to choose the person they should have sex with, like the institution of marriage and stuff like that."
There seems to be a missing link in the transition period of history. I can understand the concept of treating offspring and wives as property in ancient history, but am still puzzled since when somebody decided that:
- No, Johnny, you must not look at, draw, touch, dream of, think of, etc... female nipples, because it is a sin!
- No, Jane, you must not show your nipples!
Maybe it is just a silly thought, but I certainly will wonder for a long time, just in the sense of how we get to be who we are nowadays as a whole.
Any thoughts from your history teaching expertise are much appreciated!
As times passed everything connected to reproduction, like women's nipples, breasts, wide hips and so on, became surrounded with a lot of taboos and restrictions and generally charged and exiting. Before the agricultural revolution no one took notice of a woman's breast any more than a man's breast, it was just a mundane part of the body. If you look at a lot of cultures that still live by hunting and gathering, in some remote parts of the world, the women can still walk around bare breasted like it is no ones business.
I don't know if I can explain my thoughts any better in English. Its not my first language.