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love of Manliness is Eros, which includes love of the Signs of Manliness such
as fight skills, the love of a trained and conditioned body, along with love of
all the Manly Moral Virtues.
The Greeks were the first to see male nudity as, literally,
a heroic state.
‘Greek nudity is a sign not of humiliation, but of moral
virtue among the social elite of male citizens,’ says Neil MacGregor, a former director
of the British Museum.
‘When a youth removes his clothes to compete in the ancient
Olympic Games, he does not merely stand naked before his peers, rather he has
put on the uniform of righteousness.’
A fighter’s nudity pointed to his Manly Virtues that all
fighters embody.
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