I think it's the difference in how we portray women's bodies. Things like Playboy and Hustler make it seem like we're just objects. It's not like In Europe where they have nude beaches and men are just as exposed as women so it's no big deal. Whereas here for every 1 movie you see a naked man in there are probably 100 movies with naked women. And they almost always portray them as just bodies - not people, just bodies.

I don't find exposing yourself for the purpose of art, or just natural bodily functions like breast-feeding a problem. But I do see something wrong with making yourself an object in a magazine like Hustler.

I.E. There was a woman who was fired as cheerleading coach in Sacramento because a parent found nude pictures of her in Playboy and got a stick up their ***. And I don't really know which way to go on this. One part of me wants to say that I would have no problem having this woman coach a teenage daughter of mine because it's her body and she can do with it what she chooses. But there is another part of me that thinks that magazines like that are extremely demeaning and I wouldn't want my daughter to have a person so involved in their lives that thinks it's okay to subject yourself to that kind of treatment. y'know?

Maybe I'm just a little too conservative but I think, to me, intentions are everything. There is a difference between a stripper who does it simply to gain attention from men and a stripper who celebrates her body and does it because she likes being able to express herself and get paid for it. So I guess, to me at least, it all depends on your reasoning.

Several of the men I've slept with were because I was single and I wanted sex. I told them beforehand that I didn't want anything serious but I had needs too. That, to me, if different that having sex with men because you think you have to to get them to like you.

Sorry if that offends anyone. I realize I'm a little conservative when it comes to women's bodies and I'm very conflicted in what I think it right and what has been hammered into my brain over years of parental upbringing. I guess that's why opinions are like as sholes. Everyone has one!