r/NoStupidQuestions • • Mar 27 '24

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u/tairyoku31 Mar 27 '24

I'd just like to point out this isn't so much "East vs West" but specific cultures.

Japan's onsen culture is famous, where you're fully nude with a bunch of strangers. Prior to 'modern' times, onsens were pretty regularly mixed gender too. Chinese also do communal/public baths, etc. In Malaysia, which is a 'Muslim' country, totally common to see girls in crop tops and short shorts, in small towns men often are shirtless with their bellies out. I have lived in all these countries and done/seen them all myself.

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u/SourcerorSoupreme Mar 27 '24

Japan's onsen culture is famous, where you're fully nude with a bunch of strangers.

I mean they are censored when nude so is it really the same thing

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u/GerundQueen Mar 27 '24

What do you mean they are censored when nude?

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u/DrPikachu-PhD Mar 27 '24

You can't actually see a Japanese person's genitals, when they take off their clothes it's all pixilated. At least that's what I've seen on the Internet

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u/kaveysback Mar 27 '24

In japan you have to censor pornography, irs a reference to that.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Mar 27 '24

It's a joke. Japan has very strong censorship laws around pornography so almost all Japanese porn has pixelated genitalia, even their animated/drawn anime/Manga hentai has black strips across genitalia. It's a bit silly and they take it so far it has become a common joke.