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<p>I’ll respond since I was one of the “moms” who posted a long time ago on this thread that my daughter had to appear with frontal nudity on stage. I can assure you that her reason to do so was NOT because “she likes doing it!” In fact, in the musical where she played a 12 year old who was prostituting herself and she had to have simulated sex on stage with no clothing on top, it took her a LOT of getting used to it in rehearsal to be comfortable doing it. At first, she did not want her grandparents to attend the performance, because she was going to feel uncomfortable if they did, but as she got used to it in rehearsals, she was willing to have her dad and her grandparents come to the show. But it wasn’t easy until she had a chance to get used to performing this way first. Later, she was in another show in college where the cast is briefly seen in full nudity in the opening, and I think she came to terms with being comfortable on stage this way. But the reasoning was never because she likes being nude on stage. It was part of taking risks in terms of being an actor. In fact, I was proud of her because she has a very significant long scar on her body and I felt she had come a long way in being able to ignore that and be able to perform on stage in this manner. </p>
<p>The reasoning you use that the person who does this is doing it because they like to…makes no sense because if that were the case, my daughter would be an exhibitionist in public or on the beach, for instance, and she surely doesn’t appear nude in public. Rather, if the character or play calls for nudity, then that is part of the portrayal in the script and not part of being herself. Herself doesn’t appear naked in front of others any place else but her bedroom.</p>