Modesty can be described as a feeling or sense of shame in certain situations that can vary from individual to individual. Modesty is generally what makes a person feel uncomfortable or at ease performing certain tasks or activities and, therefore, seeks to ignore them so as not to have to go through the suffering that they may imply. In general, modesty is related to questions related to sex or nudity, but, nevertheless, it can be applied to many other questions of various kinds.
Clearly, for a feeling of shame to exist, there must always be two parties at stake: the person who feels it and a type of audience or public whose presence is the one that generates that shame in the first person. This audience can consist of thousands of people or just one and this variation will depend on the person themselves, the space and time in which they are, possible elements of the personality of each party, etc. Thus, we could say that modesty is a social feeling insofar as it appears from the interaction between a person and other individuals.
Modesty causes a person to become modest and act in an exaggerated way of shame in situations that for other individuals may be normal. In any case, although there are circumstances that generate modesty or shame in most people (such as walking naked on public roads), there are other situations that can become modest for extremely sensitive people. In these cases, modesty ends up becoming a problem since it prevents social interaction in a normal and relaxed way, thus seeking to avoid such events and withdrawing more and more into oneself.
In this sense, modesty is one of the characteristics of our modern societies in which the permanent and constant display of perfect bodies generates, in a large part of the population, distrust, insecurity and shame of showing oneself.
