Interesting conversations guys, gives you things to think about. I know I've noticed a difference in the way young women dress also. That, like was mentioned before, could have been the "Brit Spears effect". But in a whole, our local community hasn't seen a change since Brit's privates went public. In fact they seem to think it's getting worse and has an effect on the High School graduation rate.
Next years school dress code has been re-written to make sure young women wear "proper clothing" at all times. Seems our small community is convinced that young women wearing thongs above the jeans waist line, low cut blouses, bare midriffs.....are a huge reason just over 60% of students graduate. Instead of working on the real obvious problems our schools have.
There is a nudist club just about 2 miles away from our town. Has always been considered a black eye to the county we live in. Yet has been here longer than most businesses in the county. I personally think it would be interesting to do a study, comparing the graduation rate of the naturists kids to the textile kids in the city/county.
My family while growing up was more open to the idea of nudism then my current married life family. Being nude or naked wasn't a bad thing, it was just natural. My wife on the other hand sees the nude body as a sexual device. (Which I guess is good for me sometimes...
) But not the open minded person I thought I was marrying.
The US has always been backwards when it comes to nudity, the human body as a whole. A lot of that as I've seen in my personal life, comes from the way you are raised. Doesn't really matter where you are as my wife and I grew up just miles apart, but rather the way you are raised.