Why is our culture so obsessed with sex?

[Brenna]

Suddenly it seems like that is what everything is about. Most girls want to look "hot" and are okay with being a sex object. Most guys only want girls for sex. Its a very open subject, and kind of considered an every day thing. Why is this? And do you think it is a good or bad thing?

[prettigirl01]

its in movies, music, etc so if its in the media it must be ok plus it feels greeeeeeeeeeeaaaaat(in my tony the tiger voice)

scorpio is the typical male. how can we want men for money when half the time theyre broke living in their mothers basement. lol come on now be realistic. women have more to offer than men

[M]

This has been happening for a very long time. I don't know but women especially young adults should stop rushing to grow up. Enjoy your youth. I have lots of girl friends who dress very sexy even though we are 18, 19, 20 I still think its too much.

[Katerina Ballerina]

It's media driven, but it's also prevalent with social media such as Facebook (people posting hundreds of pictures of themselves, some in provocative poses/clothing) and sexting, and a general feeling that it is normal to lose your virginity at a young age, even if a person is not equipped to handle it psychologically.

[Tommy]

yeah i dont get it either i guess they just cant control their animalistic urges i like video games and bbq potato chips and whiskey though so i guess we all have our vices

[Femme fatale]

The media, the Internet, porn and low self esteem.

[Arrogantcoast419]

Always has, always will.

Girls will always be considered as 'sex objects' deep down in the male psyche. It's the decent ones who don't openly express this.

[Franc]

I think you're wrong about most guys wanting girls ONLY for sex.
I think for a lot guys- sex is VERY important so that it may seem that way. But many guys are like me- they also want intimacy, shared fun/activities, cuddling, holding a girl in your arms, etc.

[Elaine G]

Guys do want girls who look provokingly "hot". But nobody is really forced to dress or act in a sexy way. In fact in most workplaces women are supposed to be discreet about what they wear, it is the females themselves that bend the rules.

I don't think women should dress "hot". Well maybe if they have the body for it, then allright. But some don't and you can see the undies they are wearing under leggings. That is sickening even for me, as a girl that likes girls

[Robin]

"Suddenly it seems" . . . I heard that lament back in the 1960s, a half-century ago.

That is why there were "engagement periods", to show that the woman is not pregnant (as in possibly with some other man's child) when they marry. That is why women, even today in an unimaginably large part of the world, are often sequestered and not let out in public without a responsible male escort, and sometimes without being fully clothed from head to toe despite the heat of the day. Sex and service are the reasons some men think that women only exist for.

This story has existed, in some form or another, for almost as long as there have been humans. For a while, in Western civilization, we had an "enlightened" sense of the 'nobility of man[kind]', back when everyone 'knew' the Bible-based expression of humanity being made "in the image of God." Today, our children are taught, drilled into them, that we are mere animals, there is no God, much less a God-image in us. So what is so very strange then, if we animals handle our hormone-driven animal instincts just as animals do?

A bad thing, obviously.