• kromem@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I have a friend who is a sex freelance journalist writing for everyone from the NYT to Playboy and she’s been outspoken recently around a neo-puritan movement by younger generations.

    People aren’t having as much sex, have a lot more hangups about sex, are uncomfortable with sex depicted in media, etc.

    This image didn’t even contain nudity - it’s a crop of the original that’s in question.

    There are broader social impacts for seemingly innocuous efforts like these, and I don’t know it’s all that healthy for us to be constantly self-thought policing when it comes to sex. Those attitudes seem to be moving beyond the immediate focus and into general attitudes and behaviors around sexual hangups.

    We’re seeing “purity culture”-like mentality infecting people who weren’t even raised in oppressive religious contexts.

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Oh I’d be interested in reading her work, there is absolutely some weird puritan thing in a section of those in their twenties but also an equal group that are kinda sexual obsessive.

    • Libertus@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I can see the same thing, and I couldn’t agree more. Do you happen to have an article of hers to share?