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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)When you make a point of not understanding the other person's argument. Have your discussion all you want, only how you have framed it has absolutely nothing to do with the OP or the other posts denouncing objectification and misogyny.
I continue to be astounded at how many people see human sexuality as intrinsically bound to capitalist commodity fetishism, as though human beings never had sex before corporate media conglomerates and pornographers sold disembodied images of women and even human lives for profit. Sex is a beautiful thing. Si and porn aren't sex. They are commodities sold by corporate profiteers. Corporate capitalism is not a beautiful thing. It is by nature ugly and exploitive; reducing sexuality to its representations does the exact same thing. While you may not share my disdain for corporate capitalism, there is no disputing the fact that human beings have had happy sex lives for millennia before any of this existed, and they will continue to do so long after it disappears.