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Good stuff Emilia. See, I don't really care or anything... but the position that always wins the day on these topics, ie that which can be roughly characterised as 'it's her choice good luck to her she's hot you'd make money like that if you could' is kind of vacuous.
'Choice', is all very well, but it's also worth thinking about the idea that choices are, just maybe, not made in a vacuum, and that women used to 'choose' to wear corsets that gave them fatal emphysema, for instance; or that women's complicity in the pornification of society perhaps, just maybe, has consequences for the rest of us, who have to put up with those consequences every time some Sun reading fuckwit shouts and leers at you when you're just trying to get home; or that maybe, and forgive me here, it's a wee bit easier for a man to say 'get over it' than it is for a woman, given that you're not the ones getting the vast majority of the shit, frankly.
VP can, of course, do whatever she wants. There is a wee bit more to it than that, though, if you're interested in thinking about it.