>>10739548Well to be honest, my main goal in writing articles like this is to practice articulating complex ideas. That's mostly a means to the end of advocating for my political/philosophical beliefs. I chose this topic because I made a spur-of-the-moment post about it on /pol/ and then decided I should expand more on it to make the argument more clear.
>>10739558That's also true, of course. In the OP I talked about the historical uses of nudity to exalt natural beauty and sanctity. With that said, there's little question that men found paintings of nude women captivating for carnal reasons. That desire was considered acceptable because it was directed toward a subject worthy of desire, and also because there was another legitimate reason for portraying nudity, namely the glorification of the human figure/beauty/god's image. Now that those legitimate reasons are invalidated by Modernism, all you have left is the carnal justification, which is why you now have the nudity=porn phenomenon.
