Ende akzeptaber Nacktheit

Jacob Beckert fragt sich, wohin die bis noch vor kurzem akzeptable Nacktheit in Umkleidekabinen und an anderen Orten (in den USA), an denen nackte Menschen eine Selbstverständlichkeit waren, verschwunden ist. Selbst in Garderoben gibt es nun eigene Umkleidekabinen, in denen man sich alleine, isoliert von anderen Menschen, umziehen kann. Undressing […] was now permitted only in small private stalls […] The space had been redesigned as “universal,” for people of all genders. The locker room, once a place for casual and normative nudity, had quietly become a place where modesty was expected. […] One of the prevailing trends in locker-room design is privacy, a way to make “a diverse user base” feel comfortable. […] The term nonsexual nudity feels inadequate, because for some, changing in a locker room could carry a charge of eroticism. Communal nudity is no better, evoking images of orgies or nudist colonies rather than once-routine forms of unclothed life. The fact that the practice…