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You are conflating nudity and porn when they are two different things, and as far as nudity is concerned, focusing only on whether it is okay according to Christianity to be naked, rather than the other question more relevant to this story, which is whether it is okay according to Christianity to see someone else (who may or may not be Christian themself) be naked.


No, I didn't conflate anything. My post specifically covered that pornography is banned, while nudity may be permissible if it does not offend modesty.


The question you responded to was:

> Most of religions forbid people to be naked / see other people naked? Please, list some of them, as I'm having a hard time finding which ones do this.

You decided to respond with a point about pornography. Either you conflated nudity and pornography, or you responded with something unrelated to the question. I assumed the former as that seemed to me to be the more charitable explanation, but if the latter was the case instead, I apologise for the incorrect assumption. Instead, let me ask you: why did you feel it relevant to bring up pornography in response to that question?


The bulk of his reply was not about pornography. He specifically stated the Catholic Church has no outright ban on nudity, but quoted two paragraphs from the Vatican about "resist[ing] the allurements" of "voyeuristic explorations of the human body" in advertising or other media that "go too far in the exhibition of intimate things".

If advertising material qualifies, nudity in films qualifies.


For all practical purposes, Catholicism is an example of a religion that forbids nudity. Depictions of nudity that the church would find acceptable, online or in popular media, are rare enough that a concerned Catholic would be justified in avoiding all nudity out of caution.




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