Maybe this is a US thing, or a "I have successfully put adblock on everything and don't watch broadcast television anymore" thing, but I don't actually see nudes in advertising.
As for art, I find I generally have to seek out art, nude or otherwise, and nudes with any sort of detail - again, this might just be an American thing - tend to be in museums rather than parks and streets. I wouldn't just stumble across it accidentally.
With that said, whether or not you understand other people's hangups, you certainly understand that other people have them. There's something really tacky about insisting that you can only socialize in the room in the house that happens to have a nude painting of yourself in it, even though your friend has asked to spend time in any other room, literally any other room. And I don't really believe that this woman doesn't know that LW is uncomfortable in that room, no doubt with their seat carefully chosen to give them an eyeful the painting rather than that sea view.
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As for art, I find I generally have to seek out art, nude or otherwise, and nudes with any sort of detail - again, this might just be an American thing - tend to be in museums rather than parks and streets. I wouldn't just stumble across it accidentally.
With that said, whether or not you understand other people's hangups, you certainly understand that other people have them. There's something really tacky about insisting that you can only socialize in the room in the house that happens to have a nude painting of yourself in it, even though your friend has asked to spend time in any other room, literally any other room. And I don't really believe that this woman doesn't know that LW is uncomfortable in that room, no doubt with their seat carefully chosen to give them an eyeful the painting rather than that sea view.