You think it's the same when men show nipples as when women do?
I really can't understand why people have to ruin an otherwise fair positon.
If you want to fight censorship you need to understand what people find objectionable. The reason a picture of a topless woman and at topless man aren't treated the same way is that a mans naked chest is not considered sexual. If you want them to be treated the same that requires society to either treat a mans nipples as just as sexual as a womans, or see a womans nipples as just as non-sexual as a man.It will be impossible to bring the sexual value of a mans naked chest up to the value of a womans, so that would leave only one option: the reduction of the sexual value of a womans naked chest. The only way that would happen is if society grew sufficiently desensitized to it that it was neither special or a implied anything sexual.
We've grown far more desensitised over the years as censorship has been lifted. Women in a short skirt would have seemed very shockingly sexually stimulating not so long ago. Now we need more to get us stimulated, and that again is where taboo lies. If you want sex to be exciting you can't overly resent the taboo around it, that's exactly why you find it exciting.
That which is denied or hidden is MORE coveted and sought.
It is the indoctrination of guilt and shame that supports the entire porn industry.
Perhaps when the open expression of sexuality is allowed and naturalized
LOVE will again be the stimulus required for arousal.
Didn't you read my whole comment?
What evidence is there anywhere that removing taboos increases arousal? Because we have an incredible amount of evidence otherwise. All that happens is when we remove one taboo we move the bar higher and we find something else.
If we were to reach a point where nudity and sexuality no longer has any taboo around it at all then it would no longer be arousing. Why? Because it's normal, exactly the same reason as seeing a girls naked ankles doesn't even register as sexual. If you want sexuality to be sexual then you can't seriously wish that everyone thought nothing of it. If you wanted showing breasts to be considered no more taboo than showing a man's chest you're also saying you want breasts to be considered just as non-sexual. Now maybe you're okay with that, maybe you want that, but most people that say this sort of thing seem to think they can have both at the same time. It's like seriously thinking that if we could have sex with whoever we wanted at any time would still make sex just as exciting and interesting to us, Yes, nice fantasy maybe, but in reality just like anything else the less scarce something is the less valuable you find it. To the point where if it's so abundant, even if it's essential to you, you don't even notice it's even there. You don't notice all the breathable air around you as a "thing", it's just empty space, because it's so abundant it doesn't even register.