Here are two images that stick in my mind that are part of the modern world and seem to have no suitable explanation.
It is not uncommon for women to get naked and try and attract attention to their political cause with a photograph of their naked bodies forming some image. It is meaningless because women without clothes are the subject of interest and their political message never gets past the issue of their being attention seeking extremists.
This photo of naked Germans could be used for any political issue but the focus would always be on 'why are they naked?' Germans in general have a greater propensity to appear naked, for reasons I don’t quite understand. When Germans first came to the United States in large numbers in the latter half of the 19th century they established resorts, spas and outdoor pools as part of their nature worship. Maybe that’s it.
The video below is equally shocking because it is a big room full of Japanese young males and females practicing sex in a large group. This would be unheard of anywhere else in the world. The Japanese have three attributes that make this possible.
* First they are avid learners and will take a course in almost any subject.
* Second they are confident that there must be much more to learn about sex because they live in an environment where sex is considered a skill. Geisha exist because society believes that women can become highly skilled in the sensory and sexual realms.
* Lastly the Japanese are not a puritanical society so carrying out sexual acts on a large scale is not morally offensive.
I have only included the URL for this video here. There are many such videos and some are just trick photography and mirrors. I have no idea how many of my readers would be offended so I am playing safe by not embedding the video.