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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)And yes, there is this idea that somehow if one is against these sorts of depictions of women that one is against sex.
Which could not be farther from the truth. I do not care to go into details about my sex life, but I have been what used to be called a "free spirit". I love people and expressed it physically and it is actually because of this that I object so much to the commodification of it. And the porn industry and sex industry absolutely infuriate me since they are certainly not promoting anything about love or magic, they promote money and using others to make money in any way conceivable. And tricking people, male and female into thinking that sex is a sport or a way to use or control someone else. Not my thing at all.
So, if someone chooses to be objectified as a career, it is not so much my business. But the popularizing of the objectification, the normalizing of it, that is where the trouble for me begins, because it is the message given to the youth. This sort of souless sex that is about everything that I loath (being controlled, being reduced to what your body looks like rather than who you are) is what I find myself puzzled by and concerned about.