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The Bible story of the apple was probably originally a birds-and-the-bees type talk. Probably for girls. (lemm.ee)

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The snake (of the trouser variety) tempts Eve with the forbidden fruit (hanky panky) that she shares with Adam. The consequence of which is painful childbirth.

They're even specifically stated to be naked for this situation.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They realize they’re naked and feel instinctively ashamed (as most people would…).

For the sake of readers familiar only with Abrahamic traditions we might add “in that community.”[^1]

Their notion of nudity’s inherent sexual shame was weird in broader antiquity where mores re: nakedness were more often related to decorum or social status. Abrahamic religions all regard the human form as carnal, one way or another, so even today the weirdness persists in the laws and conventions of secular cultures, but still it isn’t universal.

[^1]: That community by modern estimates was a group of Judean captives in Babylon (near Baghdad) c. 540 BCE who began compiling the oral traditions (ancestral folk tales) that had been preserved in exile.