Men in such circumstances are ripe for revolt, and sometimes the revolt comes." An obvious result of reducing the feeling about nakedness to an unreasoning but imperative convention is the tendency to prudishness.

This, as we know, is a form of pseudo-modesty which, being a convention, and not a natural feeling, is capable of unlimited extension.

It is by no means confined to modern times or to Christian Europe.

The ancient Hebrews were not entirely free from prudishness, and we find in the Old Testament that by a curious euphemism the sexual organs are sometimes referred to as "the feet." The Turks are capable of prudishness.

So, indeed, were even the ancient Greeks.