I found it fascinating that in RDR2 they put so much detail in everything except naked Arthur was as smooth as ken doll, if you glitched him out of a bathtub. They did put penises on random nude npcs.

But there's a bit where Arthur is naked for plot reasons which I think actually showing him naked and vulnerable instead of locking the camera would have been more powerful.

But meanwhile you can explode heads at point blank with shotguns etc. deeply sick culture.

I imagine because in the west its, broadly, considered transgressive and sexualized. There are plenty of nudists in Europe and if you go to a nudist beach, they think youre the weirdo if you get turned on lol. I know Japan has a cultural thing about nudity also representing purity - which I guess we kind of have in the west. I cant speak to the degree that nudity is "PURITY" vs "SEXUAL" in Japan because they have plenty of anime where nudity was titillating rather than representative of purity lol. Might be why you have to search through manga for what youre looking for

In terms of sheer practicality, you got to keep things contained if youre working with heavy equipment or animals (or other people). Like, there's some horrible things that happens to loose hair in gears (you can get your scalp off) so just imagine what might be at risk woth loose pubic hair lol. Also some stuff just gets you dirty and its usually easier to strip off an outer layer than hop in a bath and scrub. Or it might be dangerous or just plain noxious or annoying to land on bare skin. You can ignore this in art, for sure, but then an artist is usually making a point of it - for what? Mostly to titilate probably, but if you have a culture where NUDITY = PURITY then you could use that to make a point that your characters are naive or advanced or whatever.