I might also add that depicitions of nudity in the National Geographic was, at one time, mostly limited to "natives," at least in photos. There was a series of articles on life in Ancient times in the 1950's that naturally had a great deal of nudity, mostly "non-native," and some was, well, very good looking. The same with more recent illustrations. There was a period in the 1970s and 1980s when there were more illustrations with the odd nude person, usually on the beach or in a hot spring. But there have been fewer such illustrations lately. In a way, I expect they may be reflecting that there is (apparently) less public nudity than there was 20 years ago.
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