We are the opposite of the aliens we dream of, or we dream of beings with the qualities we want us to have. dressing, which is a humanoid behavior† It created the concept of fashion and giant sectors with standards that are considered civilized, interpreted differently from society to society and seen as universal. We even watch people walk out the door unclothed.

The first images that come to mind when you talk 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, big hands and feet, light green or gray skin tone… While 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 topic is not overly human-like images such as:

The Marvel character Thanos above is also an alien portrait, but dressed as a highly humanoid and put in a defensive mode. Nearly all the other human-like and animal-like creatures in his army are also depicted clothed. In other words, characters thought out in great detail and fictionalized as highly humanoid. For this reason, we are not talking about fantastic alien images that can even stand 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 in the movie Arrival has many arms, just like an octopus, and a non-human body. Even though it bears traces of living creatures in the world and modern angels like the Grim Reaper, it is still naked.

Another example is a naked alien from the 2002 movie Sings:

Another movie in which aliens live in a refugee camp on Earth is Discrict 9. Normally they don’t need any 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 that they find in the garbage dumps of the world they live in.

Another example from the 1982 movie ET. We dressed up a loving alien who was as naked as he could get on Earth:

Another example comes from the 1986 classic movie Aliens, not human-like at all but still naked:

Aside from the movies, the source of the following image of common aliens is not “green alien dance videos”:

51. This image 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 we more or less all dress up. But for different purposes. Here’s where it gets 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 nice’ No, the main thing is to survive. On the other hand, the way we dress, the amount of clothes we wear and our purpose change depending on the flexibility of the concept of ‘privacy’ that has evolved with modern societies.

We know that when we say ‘nudity,’ in some societies with strict rules,’‘equal to carrying less’ images even comes to mind (Middle East for example). In some societies, wearing less does not mean nudity (e.g. US, Miami).

According to science, “the more exposed you are to someone’s skin when we first meet, the more ‘positive’ impression we have.”

However, this ‘positive impression’ can lead to more people feeling an intimacy or desire for that person. Such a result is interpreted as sexually ‘objectifying’ the other according to the ethical understanding of modern people. to dress more modestly, that is: show less skin While it’s relatively common in this situation, the biggest 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 clothes. In fact, we often don’t even include the genitals in these images:

Maybe in our mind they don’t need external genitalia to mate, so they don’t have primitive concerns for them like privacy…

Our approach to nudity changes again when it comes to religious texts, for example the first humans Hz. Adam and Herz. In the images of Eve, we resort to closing the private places:

While this isn’t directly related to portraying aliens as naked, it has to do with our perception of nudity.

The image, image, or theme of a naked person results in feelings and inferences such as sexual desire, shame, and immorality, where 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:

For the imagined image is not of the same type as we are, against that image. that we cannot feel 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”, nor do we feel any 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 definitions of “alien”. For example, the word “alien,” which means “alien” in English, is a very broad definition. However, to express superhuman advanced beings “alien” There are words like

Did you notice? Almost all of these images have features that we don’t have and that we 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 in whatever environment they go to. to biological benefits they may have. Could we have imagined bigger eyes with the need to see better? But what about the misconception that a bigger head is associated with being smarter?

Interesting and deep in philosophy, the expression of our existential problems There is a strange picture that we see. Meanwhile, for with a person who stated to have had contact with foreigners We also spoke:

BONUS: NASA sent nude human illustrations into space:

Much like sending gold plates of different sounds from Earth into space, this was a step we took so that if there were aliens, they would recognize us. Perhaps the reason we imagine them naked is because our ancestors looked at strange images from outer space, and in a mass extinction event, all the evidence disappeared, leaving only the stories we told each other and the naked alien images in those stories. .. Who knows?

Sources: NDTV, Quora 1, Quora 2, Live Science, WIRED.