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Originally Posted by knox

the mistake that you're making is that you're confusing criticism against objetification and gender roles with puritanism. it's quite the opposite really. think about it.

im actually saying that puritanism engenders objectification-- when sex is "dirty" and woman is "polluted" (thanks pookie for the joke), and the body is "shameful", a lot of unhealthy interest develops in looking at "the truth" in whatever form it can be found, and this is what businesses exploit.

then we decry the objectifiers and the consumers of objects-- that's what capitalism does, commodify fucking everything. but there's a natural sex instinct looking for an outlet in the environment that capitalism provides. if you want to criticize objectification/commodification, the place to do it is not by criticizing the male sex drive, but the miserable structures that capitalism provides for its (in)satisfaction. when the criticism is aimed at the male sex drive, the pushback becomes only more intense.

the way to escape objectification, barring the dismantling of capitalism, is not mere critique-- it's actually more sex (real sex, with real people), sensuality instead of detached experiences, the cultivation of pleasure instead of the ever-unfulfilled pursuit of unattainable images of desire that keep the customer returning to the checkout line like a sucker.