Argument 1: "Our paranoia around sexuality is just making things worse. We cover up breasts, hide magazines, shame people about their bodies. This actually ends up oversexualizing things - like how burkas imply that the thing it's hiding is so sexual it must be contained."
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Argument 2: "Sexuality is actually real and powerful and pretending it's not is ignoring the facts. Haven't you seen a dude in the subway jacking off to a girl in a short skirt? Sexual displays get sexual reactions, and removing the boundary is what oversexualizes things."
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Arg.1 notices that protecting against something increases the potency of the thing we're protecting against (problem is the pushback)
Arg.1 notices that failing to protect will unleash the potency of the thing we're protecting against (problem exists is regardless of pushback)
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Really, both are probably true - the thing is both inherent *and* created.
This feels like it has a lot of similarities to the current discussions around gender, which sometimes says the problem is the divisions we create, and sometimes says the problems are inherent.
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As in: Gender isn't real (we create the division) but trans people seem very biologically driven to present as the stereotype of the other gender (reinforcing the division). Your gender is your feelings (we create division) but women need a safe space (reinforcing the division)
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Your survey on taboos and kinks found that tabooness strongly negatively correlated with hotness. This suggests to me that argument 1 is wrong (complete inversion of the truth).
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Apropos. We discussed this topic (and mentioned you, unrelatedly) on today's episode. 🙏🏻
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Just listened to a bit - stats i've seen say INFJs are rarest type. Also the MBTI test is often highly inaccurate. Also should look into Jung's functions that make up the theory; it's a pretty complex and cool system; most online tests are overly simplistic.
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Related argument about whether sex should be cheap and plentiful, or whether it should be special and prized. If plentiful, does it make sexual assault more common through casualness? If special, is it made to have too much power and leads to objectifying women?
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Also the cultural mores support dignity in us. Re: sexuality, from this man´s standpoint, a woman is much more desirable when she isn´t showing it all 24/7, ie it´s more of a turn on to have to open the nicely wrapped package, prior to receiving the present.