A naked human body is a naked human body, not a sex object.

[davidthegnome]

25. This is a question I have often asked.

However... if a young child is attacked ferociously by a dog, it is possible that they will have a fear of dogs well into their adulthood. I think it's kind of similar. At least in the sense that - once someone has had a bad experience with a man, or with a number of men, it tends to taint the way one looks at them. Consciously or subconsciously, our experiences make up the whole of what we are. When so many young men act like sex crazed idiots, it doesn't really come as a surprise that we are all painted with the same brush - even if it is, at times, inaccurate. Does this excuse this behavior (judging all by the actions of a few)? Not really, but perhaps it explains it a little.

For me it's not so much about right or wrong, as it is simply about the experiences that we have. Personally, I am a much harsher judge of men than I am of women - I am less comfortable around them, and my guard is always up. This is because of experiences that I have had personally.

All of that being said - there's a lot of really great men out there too, who think with the organs which are intended for thinking. The media though, everything from our magazines, to our movies, to random internet ads... capitalizes on, sells, indulges in, uses - and objectifies sex. It makes it out to be something "naughty", like in porn flicks where a man completely degrades a woman and she basically says "Oh yeah, do it again!"

The reality of it is that the taboo itself sort of makes it taboo, if that makes sense. Hundreds of years of oppression through the tools of humanity - government and religion - not just against our general rights as human beings, but against our very bodies. The suggestion that doing something that feels good is bad, evil, just because it feels good. It's nonsense. Humanity is really pretty damn stupid, we took a simple, wonderful thing - and it make it insanely complex and conflicted.

I'd love to live in a world where we weren't all so damn shy, so damn uptight, about our bodies. We're social creatures, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with sex itself. It's just our twisted culture - and I can't see a way out, for men, or women.