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