National Geographic Nudity/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A native culture does not have the same nudity taboos Western culture does. Compare Innocent Fanservice Girl, applied to a whole culture.
 * Played Straight: Bob encounters a tribe in which both men and women wear only tiny loincloths.
 * Exaggerated: After a week of living with them, Bob is seen wearing a tiny loincloth as well, and is no longer shocked by the sight of women going about their business completely topless.
 * The entire tribe wears literally nothing at all, even in situations where clothes would be more practical.
 * Justified: Bob is shocked because of Culture Clash; nudity is taboo in his culture.
 * The tribe does not believe that the human body is inherently bad, dirty, disgusting, or evil; it just is what it is.
 * Inverted: Bob has somehow lost all his clothes, and encounters a tribe where showing more than just your hands and face is treated as taboo.
 * Subverted: Although nudity is not considered "bad," people generally choose to wear clothes.
 * Or the lack of nudity taboo only applies to small children; anyone over a certain age is expected to be fully clothed.
 * Double Subverted: But some women choose to go topless.
 * Or nudity is part of the tribe's Rite of Passage or other ritual, not an everyday thing.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied: Bob takes his clothes off too ("When in Rome..."), and all the natives cover their eyes and scream in horror.
 * Poor Man's Porn
 * Lampshaded:
 * Averted: Bob and the native people are wearing clothes with a similar level of coverage.
 * Bob never ventures outside of his homeland.
 * Enforced: "We need to show the obvious Culture Clash."
 * Invoked: Bob washes up on a beach and is found by a topless native woman.
 * Defied: The woman hikes up her dress before approaching Bob.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: Bob can't control himself. Cue Black Comedy Rape.
 * Played For Drama: Bob can't control himself. Cue Rape As Drama

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