Clothing is considered one of the most essential things we need for basic survival, up there with food, water, housing, and healthcare. Those all make sense. But I’ve been naked for hours on end, many times before, and I’m just fine.
It honestly seems more like a social thing (e.g. public nudity is a social taboo) than anything that is scientifically linked to survival.
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Preventing minor cuts and scrapes reduces the chance of infection which might lead to gangrene, for example.
Yeah, try and go naked outside in the middle of the night. Or better, try sleeping naked outdoors. You will slowly but surely get cold and even if you survive a couple of nights, you’ll definitely get sick and this will start your path to your demise.
Saves calories through easier homeostasis(staying warm), protects you from sunburns, protects you from random scratches.
Have you been naked outside in the wilderness trying to travel, find food, avoid predators? Being naked is easy when you remove every environmental pressure, but when exposed to the elements its very different
Preventing minor cuts and scrapes reduces the chance of infection which might lead to gangrene, for example.
Clothes are shelter, just like housing is shelter. The human body developed to survive in a very specific environment, but 99% of people don’t live in that environment today.
Some of the native peoples in the Amazon and the Congo don’t regularly wear much clothes. But they also never get cold weather, and have 24/7 shelter from the sun and rain because they live in dense forests.
Every other society on Earth developed customs of wearing clothes because the sun would burn their skin, the rain would give them hypothermia, and winter would freeze them to death.
You cab survive now without clothes because society has built an environment around you to let you do that. You live in a box that protects you from the weather and sun, and you travel to other boxes that protect you from the weather and sun. In between, you travel in various boxes that protect you from the weather and sun.
Saves calories through easier homeostasis(staying warm), protects you from sunburns, protects you from random scratches.
Clothes are shelter, just like housing is shelter. The human body developed to survive in a very specific environment, but 99% of people don’t live in that environment today.
Some of the native peoples in the Amazon and the Congo don’t regularly wear much clothes. But they also never get cold weather, and have 24/7 shelter from the sun and rain because they live in dense forests.
Every other society on Earth developed customs of wearing clothes because the sun would burn their skin, the rain would give them hypothermia, and winter would freeze them to death.
You cab survive now without clothes because society has built an environment around you to let you do that. You live in a box that protects you from the weather and sun, and you travel to other boxes that protect you from the weather and sun. In between, you travel in various boxes that protect you from the weather and sun.
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