Naked or Covered: A World History of Clothing and Nudity

Who knows when, where, and in what era our ancestors first thought of covering their bodies. They adorned themselves to look more beautiful and powerful, to mask flaws, to protect themselves from cold, heat, and injuries, or to hide their own shame.

We still do so today. This slightly provocative book will immerse the curious reader in the inexhaustible history of humanity's concern with its own body and certain parts of it in the light of public space - from the tied penis to the fake buttocks.

It touches on the capricious boundaries of our visible body in different eras, traditions, and religious preferences on various examples of the naked and hidden, the restrained and the seductive, the attractive and the scandalous image in the eyes of outsiders.