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Originally Posted by Tinordi
For those arguing in favor of keeping the thread what's the reasoning?
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it's a thread in which users are expressing women they find attractive from a physical vantage.
Is it the "physical" part of the equation the reason for debate? my thought on that is that it is completely natural for humans to be attacted to physique. No one in the thread is saying that skinny girls are more attractive than others, or that there are certain measurements that are attractive over another. in fact, it's a pretty cool mosaic of what CP'ers find appealing. Is there a lot of bikini shots, busts and backsides, sure, but if we are talking physical attraction, it is how straight males are somewhat programmed to gravitate to visually. By the same token, if (and when) the "hot guy" thread gets created, i'd imagine it would have several guys with focus on physiques that women find attractive, not just pictures of guys who have good personalities.
Now, the main rationale i do see in perhaps curbing the thread (though i didn't vote that way) is that if there are young folks on CP, and i expect that CP is a place open to all, then having images that are somewhat adult in nature may not be a good thing.
i don't know, i suppose i'm a bit out to lunch on the topic. today's pop culture disturbs me in how vulgar the main stream has really gotten. as an example.... i don't follow music videos at all now (being a 30+ year old) , however, have been forwarded 2 videos in the past 6 months of 1) Turn down for what and 2) anaconda by nikki minaj. Both left me feeling sick to the stomach that this is what our young boys and girls are watching. I then reflect it back to the pictures in the thread, and i just can't figure out what the line is between appreciating beauty versus utter vulgarity.
at the end of the day, i suppose it's a timeless question. i am disturbed at the vulgarity of pop culture today, just as much as my parents were disturbed by what i was exposed to as a kid, just as much as their parents were disturbed before them...
for the women on here, if there was a parallel "hot guy" thread, do you not feel it would also have a lot of guys showing off the stuff you find appealing? i don't think it would necessarily be of equal level of vulgarity, and if it isn't, is that more a function of the progress of the women's sexual evolution uptil now (ie. liberating women from this notion that they aren't to be as public as men in their enjoyment of such things) or that men aren't objectified as much as women today??