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.
- 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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