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The Samoan Case 1722-1848 Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity.
In the 19th century, photographs of naked Indigenous peoples began circulating in Europe without a clear distinction between those created as commercial curiosities or erotica and those claiming to be scientific, or images.
French naturists, on the other hand, were more likely than Germans to wear make-up and jewelry and to touch others as they would while dressed.
Where the law has been challenged by asserting that nudity by itself in not lewd or disorderly, laws have been amended to specify indecent exposure, usually of the genitals but not always of the breast.
The loss of body fur was one of the physical characteristics that marked the biological of from their ancestors.