It seems as though we are going backwards. We were doing so well in realising that all human beings are worthy individuals with emotional and intellectual depth, yet now so many of us don’t seem to see any problem with society encouraging many to reduce themselves to sexual objects. How is this rationalised?

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  • Glide@lemmy.ca
    822·
    11 months ago

    You can be sexual and engage in pornography without objectifying yourself or others.

    The better question is why we continue to allow our society to demonize sexuality. Own your sexuality. Fuck the church.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      14·
      11 months ago

      This. It’s sinfully taboo and consequently deliciously titillating and commodified for exploitation. Cut it back to just a normal human action and a lot of that goes away

    • spider@lemmy.nz
      8·
      11 months ago

      Own your sexuality. Fuck the church.

      Speaking of which:

      For instance, in 2000, a jury in Provo, Utah, took only a few minutes to clear Larry Peterman, owner of a Movie Buffs video store, in Utah County, Utah. He had been charged with distributing obscene material for renting pornographic videos that were displayed in a screened-off area of the store clearly marked as adults-only. The Utah County region had often boasted of being one of the most socially conservative areas in the United States. However, researchers had shown that guests at the local Marriott Hotel were disproportionately large consumers of pay-per-view pornographic material, accessing far more material than the store was distributing.

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