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Have a nice cup of tea. And treat yourself to a chocolate hobnob or two.
That was indeed a good read.
I kind of see where you are coming from with the over-sexualisation of the public space, but I think that a)the genie is out of the bottle now, and can't be put back in by any means other than forceful repression. That would be a very bad thing. b)It is the inevitable consequence of a free, liberal, tolerant democratic society (and of the sexual revolution in the 60s) and we just have to live with it. c)that there are just as many male as well as female examples to be found, and d)that attractive naked bodies are actually natural, very nice to look at, and we'd all live in a healthier society if we were a whole lot less uptight about showing them and allowed ourselves to appreciate our humanity a bit more.
Now I'm not a man comfortable with my own body image. I'm overweight, I'm losing my hair, what there is left is too ginger, I'm too pale, I'm too short, I hate my nose and I have no neck. Nevertheless I don't think that any of the depictions of (male) perfection that you see in adverts and editorials are the cause of these feelings. I am not uncomfortable with seeing them. Neither do I feel that seeing the female versions affect how attractive I find my girlfriend. It's in a different context I suppose.