Early humans had to dress to protect themselves from bad weather and external threats and survive. Modern people have continued this behavior due to privacy as well as security. He even made dressing more stylistic and introduced the concept of fashion. Despite all this, almost all the aliens he imagined were naked. So why?
We are the opposite of the aliens we dream of, or we dream of beings with the characteristics we want us to have. dressing, which is a humanoid behavior; It created the concept of fashion and giant sectors with standards that are perceived as civilized, interpreted differently from society to society, and seen as universal. We even look at people who go out undressed as crazy.
The first depictions that come to mind when talking about aliens have a lot in common. With the influence of popular culture, big eyes, a huge head with a thin chin, long slender arms and legs, large hands and feet, pale green or gray skin color… Although there are exceptions and these descriptions change, one rule almost never breaks: nudity.
Like the first humans, aliens may have to dress up to protect themselves. However, our subject is not overly human-like depictions such as:
The Marvel character Thanos above is also an alien portrayal, but dressed as a highly humanoid and put into defensive mode. Nearly all the other humanoid and animal-like creatures in his army are also depicted clothed. In other words, characters that have been thought through in detail and fictionalized as highly humanoid. For this reason, we are not talking about fantastic alien depictions that can even get up and speak “English” and turn into cars.
Forget that alien image that comes to mind first. Below is another alien from our imagination, naked:
This alien depiction featured in the movie Arrival has many arms, just like an octopus, and a non-humanoid body at all. Even though it bears traces of living creatures in the world and modern angels such as the grim reaper, it is still naked.
Another example is a naked alien from the 2002 movie Sings:
Another movie where aliens live in a refugee camp on Earth is Discrict 9. Normally they don’t need clothes, but they imitate people with people’s stuff:
In other words, they are still naked in scenarios where they were not born. In the refugee camp, they wear clothes they find in the garbage dumps of the world they live in.
Another example from the 1982 movie ET. We dressed a loving alien who was as naked as he could get to Earth:
Another example is from the classic 1986 movie Aliens, not at all humanoid but still nude:
Leaving the movies aside, the source of the following depiction of ordinary aliens is not “green alien dance videos”:
51. This depiction has been in our lives since regional legends.
Of course, there are exceptional examples in our world, such as the ‘Island of the Naked’. Yet more or less we all dress up. But for different purposes. Here’s where things get a little messy:
At this stage, it is necessary to understand how people approach the concept of “nudity”. When we want to dress for protectiona concern like ‘looking beautiful’ No, the important thing is to survive. On the other hand, the way we dress, the amount of clothes we wear and our purpose are changing according to the flexibility of the concept of ‘privacy’ that has developed with modern societies.
We know that when we say ‘nudity’, in some societies with strict rules, ‘‘equivalent to wearing less’ images even comes to mind (Middle East for example). In some societies, wearing less does not mean nudity (For example, USA, Miami).
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According to science, “the more you are exposed to a person’s skin when we first meet, the more ‘positive’ impression we have.”
However, this ‘positive impression’ may result in more people feeling an intimacy or desire towards that person. Such a result is interpreted as sexually ‘objectifying’ the other person according to the ethical understanding of modern people. to dress more modestly, that is show less skin Although it prevents this situation relatively, the main problem here is the way people think under the influence.
In recent years, we often see that not every individual in a society is affected by nudity to the same extent, and does not interpret nudity in the same way. To summarize without going too far off topic approach to nudity not at the level of social or mainstream cultures; in fact, it varies for small communities, groups and even individuals.
If we don’t portray a humanoid alien enough, we put gender in the background, let alone attire. In fact, we often do not even include the genitals in these depictions:
Maybe they don’t need any external genitalia to mate in our minds, so they don’t have primitive concerns for them, such as privacy…
Our approach to nudity is changing again when it comes to religious texts, for example the first humans Hz. Adam and Hz. In the depictions of Eve, we resort to closing the private places:
While this is not directly related to depicting aliens as nude, it has to do with our perception of nudity.
The depiction, image or theme of a naked person results in feelings and inferences such as sexual desire, embarrassment, and immorality, as appropriate. However, when we imagine an alien “naked”, even without realizing it, we do not have the same feelings, we do not draw the same conclusions:
Because the imagined depiction is not of the same type as us, against that depiction. that we cannot feel a sexual desire or, in a more primitive definition, we are aware that we can have sexual intercourse and reproduce. Because animals are also naked and -unless there are psychological problems or perversions- when we see naked animals, we do not interpret their situation as “immorality”, and we do not feel sexual impulses against them for the same reason.
Another reason is that aliens are often described as ‘superhuman races’:
In fact, the reason for this complexity is that the word alien in Turkish corresponds to almost all the definitions of “alien”. For example, the word “alien”, which means alien in English, is a very broad definition. However, to express superhuman advanced beings “extraterrestrial” There are words like
Did you notice? Almost all of these depictions have features that we don’t have and also want them to have:
In other words, they can quickly adapt to technologies that can bring the temperature to a livable level in the environment they want, perhaps to any environment they go to. to biological advantages they may have. Could we have imagined larger eyes with the need to see better? But what about the misconception that a bigger head is associated with being smarter?
Interesting and going deep into philosophy, the expression of our existential problems There is a strange picture that we see. Meanwhile, before with a person who stated that he had contact with aliens We also talked:
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BONUS: NASA sent nude human illustrations into space:
Just like sending gold records containing different sounds from Earth into space, this was a step we took so that if there were aliens, they would recognize us. Maybe the reason we imagine them naked is because our ancestors were looking at strange images from outer space, and in a mass extinction all evidence disappeared, leaving only the stories we told each other and the naked alien depictions in those stories… Who knows?
Resources: NDTV, Quora 1, Quora 2, Live Science, WIRED.