And of course the reason there are "sexy" pictures of women, especially porn pictures, is to objectify them. They aren't people, just things to be acted upon rather than with as this passage notes:
Susan Fiske, a psychologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, said the changes in brain activity suggest sexy images can shift the way men perceive women, turning them from people to interact with, to objects to act upon.
The finding confirms a long-suspected effect of sexy images on the way women are perceived, and one which persists in workplaces and the wider world today, Fiske said.
Speaking of porn, after reading articles and the like about how the people who work in the industry are treated and the abominable working conditions, you couldn't get me near porn with a 1,000-foot pole. Workers' rights violations abound in that industry.
Of course people who consume these products don't think of the people who are depicted in the pictures and the videos. They are objects, not people.
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