the four skins

What is about genitals that make people uncomfortable? In art, there seems to be no lack of milky white breasts, pale nipples, and heroic nudity in general; but one thing that is mostly absent in art is a realistic portrayal of human sexuality.
Woman in art are reduced to objects of sanctified devotion or objects of carnal adoration, and the very real limiting language treats the labia as something nonexistent or shameful. Male nudity exists in art, but it comes from this sort of hyper masculine place and aside from the really noticeable works like the David and Caravaggio’s Amor Vincit Omnia how much male nudity actually exists. Sexuality, sensuality, whatever you want to call it has always been deemed by the church and society as sinful. Which begs the question why do depictions of violence seem so much reasonable in our arts, but an errant breast or shaft seem so shocking.
I happen to like the idea that nudity makes people slightly uncomfortable. I look at all the shapes and variety of the various sex organs men and women possess and they are all sort of beautiful. I think the beauty is found in the vulnerability, I think for some people nudity might be equated to carnal pleasures, but I see something fragile- all of our illusions stripped away. With nudity all of our illusions about ourselves are whipped away, we aren’t the beatific regal beings that our imagination paints ourselves to be. Behind all the gaudy delusions we are wonderfully fragile beings with a finite life cycle. Our nudity is a celebration of our slow doomed walk to oblivion, celebrate it. What is uncomfortable about living life in an open and honest way, begone ye puritanical thoughts.
Of course you have people use nudity for shock factory, and people who see any form a flesh as pornographic, but I don’t see it as anything other than a beautiful testament to our humanity. Also painting and drawing a fully clothed person is much harder than it should be.