>>716287185
Unironically, it's the very start.
The moment you remove sexuality from its sacred context, you invite degeneracy. The nude form is meant to be appreciated between lovers in private, full forms laid bare meant only for the other to see. Passions loud and unfiltered, meant only for themselves to hear and witness.
Yes, it's "artful" to depict sexuality or nudity in your craft. But you devalue it by allowing others to witness something so special without actually putting in the effort to earn it for themselves. It tells them they don't HAVE to put in the work for such a fundamental reward of life when they can just go see the next best thing.
That's how you go from simple nudity, to depicting sex. Depicting sex, to creating media solely for sexual gratification. You get people thinking about their sexual identity before they ever think about finding love and a partner that they'll spend the rest of their life with. You get people defining themselves on their sexuality before their actual characteristics.
This isn't even a religious thing, this is a fundamental understanding of what one of the most pure, valuable, and important facets of existence is. When the world is so large and unfathomable, and your likelihood of influencing more than yourself is so minimal, then of course your ability to earn sexuality should be treated as one of the most powerful parts of your life. It's how you make yourself feel LARGER than life, and how you know you're DEFINITIVELY making an impact on someone else's life, your lover's life, by sharing in that love and sexuality with them.
And when everyone can achieve sexuality with just a click, then what truly is important anymore? What defines goals? Reasons to live? That feeling of meaning in a world too big to accommodate one's own personal purpose?
