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Old 10-31-2014, 11:00 AM   #375
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Originally Posted by devel View Post
Who is demonizing sex?
You are, by saying that it is inappropriate to sexualize entertainment. Humans are entertained by sex (especially when it's me fumbling about, unfortunately) and incorporating this into a specific kind of entertainment is not wrong, so long as it is within standards of public morality - and outside those standards, sometimes, if it's entertainment strictly for adults.

This isn't like the YLYL thread debate (as an familiar example, as loathe as I am to bring it up again), where there were two main issues that I agree were problems: first, some of the pictures were definitely outside the standards of public modesty, at least for North America, and - far worse in my opinion - there was overt hostility towards women that weren't up to the exacting standards of a bunch of pasty nerds on the internet. I

Some jerk making rude commentary about the F&I girls at a game WOULD be wrong, but losers being losers is a problem that will be solved right after world peace breaks out. The problem still doesn't lie with what entertainment is being provided, but rather the attitudes of those watching it - attitudes that would be far less prevalent in a society that eschewed leftover puritanism for relaxed tolerance.
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