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[-] burliman@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Pretend for a moment we live in a world where sex occurs as commonly as a handshake or a hug. In this world sex is everywhere. You grow up and see your parents have sex openly perhaps hundreds of times. When you go to your friend’s house you see their parents doing the deed. You and your friend even did it a few times.

Perhaps a half dozen times you see grandma and grandpa doing it after thanksgiving dinner. No big deal, you’ve seen it so many times now, you barely even look. There is sex in clubs, sex in a city bus, sex at lunch at offices. But amazingly no sex in bathroom stalls or rest areas, or dirty hotels, what few that even exist in this world.

You personally have sex maybe 20 times with various peers before you reach your 18th birthday. You struggle to even remember. You lost count a while ago because it is honestly like the question “how many times did you have eggs for breakfast.” By the time you reach your thirties it’s anyone’s guess.

This is the world where no one would care about implied nudity or even full on sex on Twitch. And forget about the taboo-driven sex addictions that are problems. We’d have other taboos, sure, but they wouldn’t be about sex.

[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nudity does not equal sex. People could give up clothes completely and continue with their lives as normal and I bet there would not be any noticable uptick in sex. People have sex, usually in private, even if they would be straight up nudists.

My guess is it would de-sexualize the naked form somewhat.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago

I can imagine it but what point are you trying to make here?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social -1 points 10 months ago

That they want to see their parents and grandparents going at it.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Someone read the first chapter of "Brave New World" and thought it was a true indictment of modern culture.

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Pretend for a moment we live in a world where sex occurs as commonly as a handshake or a hug.

So I'm not the only one to have that idea cross their mind! Thank you sir, for making me feel less weird.

It would still feel strange to open twitch just to discover dozens of streamers shaking hands though.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

nobody here is advocating this, nor would this be necessary to address or to even reduce irrational/outmoded taboos surrounding nudity and sex.

going to all the trouble to illustrate such a bizarre extreme only proves the point that you’re willing to imagine such a thing out of fear (or to scare others) rather than address the actual problem.

[-] burliman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Wasn’t any trouble, but one ridiculous extreme can sometimes shine a light on another…

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sometimes, but not in this case.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is literally my ideal world.

You personally have sex maybe 20 times with various peers before you reach your 18th birthday.

But surely this is already the norm, yeah? Who is sexually active and has sex less than 20 times? Did you mean 20 partners?

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