Effluvia From the Chaotic Mind of Sagaverus

Exploitation ... of Whom ?

It is a fact of modern western culture that there are magazines which show the naked or near naked bodies of physically beautiful young women. They sell by the millions upon millions.

The Feminist viewpoint is that these women are being exploited by the publishers. But consider:

For each twenty-something beauty who bares her body in the pages of these skin mags in hopes of garnering fame, fortune, or what they consider prominence, there are hundreds of thousands of men and boys whose desire to see the pictures:

Causes them to part with their money for the magazine.
Causes them to set aside their notions of fidelity to a spouse or significant other.
Causes them to lose their focus on the important tasks and opportunities of their day
Stirs up their lusts and causes them to fantasize illicit sexual union.
Lowers their opinion of the value of all women.

To mention the few which leap to mind. The pictured women are the agents of these social and moral ills. Now tell me; who is it that is being exploited ?

Sagaverus
Feb 2005

* [Images of magazine covers were taken from various web sites located by a Google.com search which yielded thousands. Images may be copyright protected but this nonprofit site is displaying them for educational purposes under fair use rules. No infringement or denigration is intended.]