Yes I absolutely think its over sexualised.
I tend to think that its infantilising of any culture that it happens in, people develop a kind of myopic approach to life or exploit others myopic approach to life.
Even the scandals about organised and epic scale sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults by secular or religious institutions doesnt seem to have been able to counter the cultural underpinnings of that kind of behaviour. I hear a lot of people say that this is only the sinister, insidious, shadow of a lot of healthy trends but I tend not to believe so and most of the individuals who are part of the on going permissive and "sex positive" movements are actually living some pretty awful sex lives themselves.
Worst of it all is the commodification of sexuality and sexual behaviour, the objectifying of individuals and exploitation of vulnerability or even normal trust between individuals is absolutely evil and so many other things can be traced to that same root or growth. I remember reading about freud's psychosexual ideas and the neo-freudian's pscyhosocial revisionism and thinking that there was a greater inter weaving of both with each other than either of them could have supposed or would have supposed.
I tend to think that its infantilising of any culture that it happens in, people develop a kind of myopic approach to life or exploit others myopic approach to life.
Even the scandals about organised and epic scale sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults by secular or religious institutions doesnt seem to have been able to counter the cultural underpinnings of that kind of behaviour. I hear a lot of people say that this is only the sinister, insidious, shadow of a lot of healthy trends but I tend not to believe so and most of the individuals who are part of the on going permissive and "sex positive" movements are actually living some pretty awful sex lives themselves.
Worst of it all is the commodification of sexuality and sexual behaviour, the objectifying of individuals and exploitation of vulnerability or even normal trust between individuals is absolutely evil and so many other things can be traced to that same root or growth. I remember reading about freud's psychosexual ideas and the neo-freudian's pscyhosocial revisionism and thinking that there was a greater inter weaving of both with each other than either of them could have supposed or would have supposed.