Women Are Sexual Objects

Withhold judgment.

The title is not intended to shock. Thought is the only thing I wish to provoke here.

When women say that they want to be considered as more than mere sexual objects, they are saying something legitimate, yet coded. It is this:

Women are all unique indivuals, and as humans, require an environment in which they will not be personally judged on the basis of looks or percieved sexual value. As people, we all have a need to connect to others as human souls.

Furthermore, in order to be healthy adults, men need to have the psychological apparatus to connect with women in a fashion that is unjudgemental, compassionate and fully cognisant of individuality and humanity.

Sincere disclaimer now over.
The complete human animal, including its psychological needs, is bounded by the realities and wonders of the natural world.

We are products of natural selection, that is, environmental selective pressures.

We are also products of sexual selection. That is, the compition, within populations, for mates. Sexual selection is a major force in the evolution of humanity. On eof the dynamics of sexual selection, is that one sex, just about always females, are competed for, while the sex will compete for them.

Amongst the legacies of millinea of sexual selection are certain hard-wired settings in the human brain.

We cannot help but make instantaneous decisions about the possible sexual value of a person, upon the first few seconds of a first meeting. This applies to both men and women, although the criteria for those decisions is quiet different.

As men, it is unhealthy for us to be dishonest to ourselves about this process.

Women have been designed by nature, to be attractive to men. Of course there are further complexities to consider. But, such complexiteies do not make the previous statement any less true.

Certain hip-to-waist ratios, symettry in the body and face, vivacity and other measures of “sexual fitness” are attractive for a reason.

It does no good try and convince oursleve that we can ignore the reactions of our minds and bodies to these physical facts.

Women are designed by nature to sexually attract men. From the genes point of view then, women are sexual objects.

Of course, the same thing can be said about human sperm-carriers. But, the designation of men as sexual objects has never really been a philosophical issue.

Go, therefore, and be attracted to one another. Enjoy it. It is one of nature’s, or, if you prefer, Gods gifts to us. It is one of the delights of being human. Enjoy it this gift without shame.