See also: Indigenous people of New Guinea Women of Mioko Island, Papua New Guinea, c. 1900 Fijian girl (1908) Micronesia [ edit ] Polynesia [ edit ] Potter, David (2012). The Victor's Crown a History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-283-34915-4. Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2010). Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-2357-3. McShane, Ian (2009). "The Past and Future of Local Swimming Pools". Journal of Australian Studies. 33 (2): 195–208. doi: 10.1080/14443050902883405. S2CID 153913329. Poliakoff, Michael (1993). " 'They Should Cover Their Shame': Attitudes Toward Nudity in Greco-Roman Judaism". Source: Notes in the History of Art. 12 (2): 56–62. doi: 10.1086/sou.12.2.23202936. ISSN 0737-4453. S2CID 193095954 . Retrieved 21 January 2022.

Adiv, Naomi (2015). "Paidia meets Ludus: New York City Municipal Pools and the Infrastructure of Play". Social Science History. 39 (3): 431–452. doi: 10.1017/ssh.2015.64. ISSN 0145-5532. S2CID 145107499. ProQuest 1986368839. The history of nudity involves social attitudes to nakedness of the human body in different cultures in history. The use of clothing to cover the body is one of the changes that mark the end of the Neolithic, and the beginning of civilizations. Nudity (or near-complete nudity) has traditionally been the social norm for both men and women in hunter-gatherer cultures in warm climates, and it is still common among many indigenous peoples. The need to cover the body is associated with human migration out of the tropics into climates where clothes were needed as protection from sun, heat, and dust in the Middle East; or from cold and rain in Europe and Asia. The first use of animal skins and cloth may have been as adornment, along with body modification, body painting, and jewelry, invented first for other purposes, such as magic, decoration, cult, or prestige. The skills used in their making were later found to be practical as well. Nootbaar, Julie Joy (2011). "Japan in the Bath: The Significance of Bathing in Japanese Culture, With Observations by Euro-American Visitors From the Late 19th Century to Today". Japan Studies Association Journal. 9: 75–89. ISSN 1530-3527. Kawano, Satsuki (2005). "Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late Nineteenth Century". In Masquelier, Adeline (ed.). Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21783-7.Jablonski, Nina G.; Chaplin, George (2000). "The Evolution of Human Skin Coloration". Journal of Human Evolution. 39 (1): 57–106. doi: 10.1006/jhev.2000.0403. PMID 10896812. S2CID 38445385.

Heskel, Julia (2001). "Cicero as Evidence for Attitudes to Dress in the Late Republic". In Judith Lynn Sebesta & Larissa Bonfante (ed.). The World of Roman Costume. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299138547. Olesen, Jan (2009). " 'Mercyfull Warres Agaynst These Naked People': The Discourse of Violence in the Early Americas". Canadian Review of American Studies. 39 (3): 253–72. doi: 10.3138/cras.39.3.253.

In Africa, nudity is not solely sexual, but varies in social meaning from one situation to another. In rural villages, both boys and girls are allowed to be nude while playing, based upon a belief that the young are innocent of negative feelings or sexual urges. Women also bare their breasts as symbolic of their nurturing children. While recognizing that some behaviors may be obscene, mere nudity has no moral connotations. [26] East Africa [ edit ] Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (1992). Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36987-9. Habinek, Thomas; Schiesaro, Alessandro (1997). "The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome". The Roman Cultural Revolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58092-2. Schäfer, Peter (2003). The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-30585-3.

Fagan, Garrett G. (2002). Bathing in Public in the Roman World. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472088653.Another Japanese tradition was the women free-divers ( ama, 海女) who for 2,000 years until the 1960s collected seaweed and shellfish nude or wearing only loincloths. [116] Women farmers often worked bare-breasted during the summer [117] while other workers might be nude. [116] Europe [ edit ] Medal for the 1920 Summer Olympics references the nudity of athletes in the ancient Olympics Miyoshi, Masao (2005). As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States. Paul Dry Books. ISBN 978-1-58988-023-8.