This is hardly related to Farsight but meh why not post it here.

I feel like working as a care aide has given me crucial realizations.

Care Aides are basically the cleanup crew for human bodies. We deal with transferring, cleaning, and re-securing humans into their elements of comfort and safety.

This is in no defence of the modern Western medical system. I recognize the fault lines, the corruption. But I am happy to see that some people are still taking part in direct care for obvious needs, not pseudoscience claims.

Anyways, for care aids, the first week or two on the job might seem awkward. But generally, immediately after that, none of it is any longer strange or upsetting.

But it makes me realize something.

The amount of massive *SHAME* that is associated with the human body. I now suspect that older societies simply didn't see it this way. It just wasn't a big deal. It makes me wonder how we got to this point. Like the most basic functions and being are so abhorrent to reality that it's a crime for the light of day.

We could search for violence, and unnecessary restraint (arrests for fines, anybody?) , we could shame the deceptive lies and chicanery. Instead we've been socialized to hide regular life in closed corners.

K well I'm not sure if this really had any purpose but ya.

I don't think it's so much that it's shame but really, the older generation felt like some things just didn't need to be hanging out there for which you can't unsee. Since they use sexuality to sell just about everything out there.
This generation we got poop maps, and parades with almost might as well be naked people on the streets and drag queens reading stories to children...it's inverted though, since it seems to be normalizing mental illness and not that there's anything wrong with the naked body, but you have things that you'd rather just keep to yourself.
It's funny how Kings would gather people just to take a dump, and then they would applaud and there'd be the royal 'buttwiper' (imagine having that on your resume) and now a days it'd be called a 'hygiene specialists'...LOL
I don't think it's shame but more like dignity, people would like to keep some dignity, it's how the cops will do strip searches in jails and it's very undignified. The close we wear are what is our role or appearance to the world, now if we were running around naked all the time, I think we'd be cold in some places, and of course there are tribes that have barely any clothing, so it's a social thing.
There was a time when showing your ankle was disgraceful. Or having an illness was also disgraceful. People worry so much about what others think, I really don't care what others think about me, that is none of my business but at least I would like to be treated with dignity, and the jailers like to degrade people by stripping them of their clothes and mocking them. Nothing wrong with nudity, but at the same time, it depends on the situation.