Title: Modesty - Wikipedia
Headings: Modesty
Modesty
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Body
Modesty in medical settings
Main article: Modesty in medical settings
In dress
Generally accepted Western norms
Gender differences
Traditional indigenous
Religious traditions
Buddhism
Christianity
Anabaptists
Catholicism
Methodists
Quakers
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hinduism
Temples
Current trends
Islam
Women
Men
Judaism
Women
Men
Cross-cultural and non-religious
In the arts
See also
Notes
Bibliography
External links

Content: Standards of modesty are culturally and context dependent and vary widely. In this use, it may be considered inappropriate or immodest to reveal certain parts of the body. In some societies, modesty may involve women covering their bodies completely and not talking to men who are not immediate family members; in others, a fairly revealing but one-piece bathing costume is considered modest while other women wear bikinis. In some countries, exposure of the body in breach of community standards of modesty is also considered to be public indecency, and public nudity is generally illegal in most of the world and regarded as indecent exposure. For example, Stephen Gough, a lone man attempting to walk naked from south to north in the United Kingdom, was repeatedly imprisoned. However, nudity is at times tolerated in some societies; for example by Digambara monks in India, who renounce clothing for ascetic reasons, and during a World Naked Bike Ride. In semi-public contexts standards of modesty vary. Nudity may be acceptable in public single-sex changing rooms at swimming baths, for example, or for mass medical examination of people for military service.