Stefano Lanzavecchia sent an article suggesting we look better with clothes on. That matches my observations in Selfridges. In the whole crowd I saw only one unknown woman for whom I felt desire. She looked like a model. Otherwise it wasn’t a sexy experience, just lotsa nekkid people. Clothes make us more attractive, not less. How come? Roger Scruton argues in Sexual Desire that we’re attracted to persons, not bodies. We dress up to present our characters more emphatically; clothes heighten our presence.
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