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Hello, I'm a guy who's had this on my mind for quite a while and I wanted to ask this to get some opinions on it.

I've seen women and feminist say that more often than not anytime there's nudity and explicit sex in a movie or TV show it's usually from a women and is usually framed in a way that objectifies and reduces her to an object for the male gaze and I've seen people say this about men who go nude too.

On the other hand I've seen people say that not all nudity and explicit sex is used this way and that sometimes it can be done in a way that doesn't objectify the people in those scenes and can add characters and be plot relevant.

I recently read a thread about a similar topic and one comment mentioned that it might be difficult to be able to completely divorce female nudity from exploitation and objectification and I kind of understand them in terms of the nudity seen in movies and TV.

Now my question is can nudity and sex ever truly be done in a non objectifying and degrading way that if that is the intention, or does a director or creators bias often lead them to either consciously or unconsciously objectify women and men regardless of the intent not to objectify.

What do you think? Do you think on a societal level that it's impossible to separate nudity from objectification, exploitation and sexualization and can those type of scenes ever been done right?

For me, I sort of feel like whenever there's an explicit nude scene involving either women or men that, regardless of the directors intent, might be feeding into objectification and exploitation, and I honestly think someone's unconscious bias might lead to frame nudity in a male gaze-y way

Feel free to discuss and share your opinions with me and give examples.

(This is a reupload of my first post made to comply with this sub's rules regarding labels)

Hello. I'm a 25 year old autistic and I wanted to get some opinions on this. I was wondering if engaging in any sort of sexual act automatically means that you lose you innocence or that you can't really have a wholesome life afterward. I'm asking because I somewhat struggle with this; I sort of have an inner child that likes doing arts and crafts with Lego, but I sometimes feel like I'm controdict myself because I sometimes get sexual urges to masturbate. I feel like my views on sex my have been skewed because I unfortunately was exposed to porn at an early age and I first started masturbating at 13 to it along with being sexually assaulted. I sometimes still watch porn and masturbate but I feel like I have a hard time reconciling that with my inner child and I feel at odds with myself. I feel bad watching porn and masturbating to it because It seems to objectify people in it and I want to eventually work on removing it from my life because it and my assault my have left me with a warped perception of sex and relationships that sometimes makes me feel like I'm being overly sexual.

tl'dr: i don't know if it possible to engage in sex and still be able to have a wholesome "inner child" without it negatively impacting your perception of relationships and life

Hello, I'm here to ask about something. I've been reading a lot of Feminist and women's threads about how media (Film, art, games, advertising etc) sexualizes and objectives women and men in our society. I was wondering if the Furry community has that tendency as well when it comes to depicting female and male characters through a sexual gaze or perspective.