I've spent time in clothing optional spaces and you know what, men are perfectly capable of conducting themselves appropriately around naked women, much less around ones who aren't. In a setting where objectictifation of women is not normalized they do not find it difficult at all and acting like men will become crazed beasts who cannot control themselves around women if they see any skin is the real misandry. Europeans and a lot of other cultures shake their heads at us uptight Americans because they understand A) that nudity is not inherently sexual and B) that adults can comport themselves appropriately around people even if they find them attractive, even if they are wearing little or nothing. They share naked saunas, naked swims, etc., all within the bounds of decency. I've never seen a man at a clothing optional space even have an erection or partial. It just doesn't happen. I have a friend who lives in Berlin and she shot a bunch of nude art photos all around the city - nobody thought anything of it. This notion that men just can't control themselves is infantilizing and absurd.
According to Dr. Conrad Manning in his paper Virtues of Nakedness: Physical & Psychological Health, “Sociological studies of ethnic groups in which nudity is common have demonstrated that there is no cause and effect relationship between being naked and immorality. Social nudists also exhibit this lack of association. Still, it is clear that many people perceive an association between nudity and overt sexuality. From the standpoint of scientific psychology it can be demonstrated that this connotation of nudity is no more than a learned sexual fetish. It is not an innate [human] characteristic.”
