[Nymph Philosophy] Why the nude female form?

[Bernd]

Hm, interesting question. In German we have the generic masculinum so male is the norm. I wouldn't say I see stars as male, they're neutral.  Likewise I don't really perceive the sun as female. If anything the moon is male because of the man in the moon. The moon is frequently depicted with a male face. The sun however is often depicted with a neutral face. A clearly female sun is not common. The same goes for stars. If stars are drawn with a face, it's also mostly neutral. The grammatical gender is all over the place in German and at least I believe this has little influence. A revolver is male (der Revolver), a pistol is female (die Pistole). A rifle is neutral (das Gewehr). I don't think this changes how people perceive these firearms.