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Subject: Re: A flash from the (recent) past.
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 22:39:00 EST
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> Are male homosexuals similarly offended and demeaned by the pictures
> in the homosexual pornographic magazines that show men as sex objects?
> Why not?

I know that many gay men like gay mail porno (I also know of gay men
who don't like it).  But I'm afraid you can't really extrapolate.  Gay
men are men, and have grown up in a culture where it's very common
and accepted for men to objectify women as sexual objects; I think
that tendency can take hold and be translated into objectification of men
as sexual objects.

Also, objectification in same-sex relations is not as much of a problem
as in opposite sex relations.  The objectification of women as sex
objects by men leads to men viewing women as less-than-human, i.e. not
as multi-dimensional as men.  In same-sex relations there's an inherent
equality, because you're relating to someone of the same "cultural class",
who thus has the same cultural identity as yourself; there is less danger
that you consider your real or imagined partners as fundamentally different
or less worthwhile than youself.

Scott Weikart
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