It's a standard trope in the world of nudie photos to start a set with a shot of the girl fully clothed, then slowly work through a striptease until at last she's revealed, fully nude. But what's the impetus behind that tease—and why do we want to see the girl fully clothed at all? If the nudity is what we're after, why do we bother with the clothed bits, period?

There are many possible explanations, of course—and doubtless different people have different reasons for their interest (and some, surely, would prefer to just cut straight to the nudity after all). We, on our part, like to think that it's about getting a hint of who the girl is before you see her stripped down—or, perhaps, being able to live out that naughty fantasy that plays through your head every time you see a girl on the street and wonder what she must look like naked.

But anyway: this is all just a roundabout way of examining what it is we find so compelling about the relatively simple concept that is /r/onoff, a subreddit that features side by side photos of the same girl fully dressed and fully nude. Probably we'll really, truly know once we get a chance to page through all the pictures, right?

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