8: Liberation of Facebook Sexuality

While many might think that this means we are more open to sex, Rutherford suggests that mostly the liberation has been women who are more willing to be on display as objects of lust for men.

This is a fascinating point, and I have noticed it has come into play on one of the most popular web pages. Of course, I’m talking about the ever famous Facebook.

I have seen countless amounts of female Facebook pages that seem to be either A: trying to entice men, B: trying to make other females jealous, or C: All of the above. I’m going to go with C as the most realistic answer, but am going to speak more relatively to women trying to entice men via Facebook pictures. Women seem more and more interested and willing to show off their bodies not only to people they know, but to the general public.  We all know it is normal for celebrities and the like to be seen worldwide prancing around in their bikinis, but now it’s just your average female.

It seems almost as though these women have a low level of self respect.  Of course you need to ask yourself what kind of woman wants her 1000 friends on Facebook (half of which I’m sure she barely knows) to see her half naked in her pictures? This could be a self respect issue, but it could also be a confidence issue. It seems as though many of these half naked pictures are put up just for the comments that deem: “you look beautiful”, “sexy”, and so on. The thing that these women may not realize is just how “on display” their body is.  Once you’ve uploaded a picture to Facebook for your friends or the public to see, these people have the power to save this picture and pass it along. Whether it is for confidence or to lure men, women should be looking at the dangers of doing this.

But not only women are doing this. Although it does seem as though there are more woman showing themselves off in their Facebook profiles, men are doing it too. I see many profiles of men making an attempt to, I would assume, persuade the on looking female by using pictures with flexed muscled, shirts off, etc. It is rare to see a male topless picture where the man is not flexing his muscles.

Many people are willing to post alluring photos of themselves on Facebook, which is a superficial view of self for most people. It has almost become a second identity to people, which they are judged by day to day. Whatever happened to don’t judge a book by its cover?

How about don’t judge a person by their Facebook cover?

.. Yeah right like that would ever happen.