"The problem is when we become so detached from our bodies that we end up disembodied...It doesnt get very physical, suffer the elements, encounter other species, experience primal fear or much in the way of exhilaration. It is more a passive object, appearing most often laid out upon an examining table or in bed: "A medical and sexual phenomenon, it is a site of sensations, processes, and desires, rather than a source of action and production. Having been liberated from manual labour and located in the sensory deprivation chambers of apartments and offices, this body has nothing left but the erotic as a residue of what it means to be embodied. Which is not to disparage sex and the erotic as fascinating and profound, only to propose that they are so emphasised because other aspects of being embodied have atrophied for many people.""
......and we wonder why sex sells, we have little else to locate ourselves in this physical world. There are very few other universally experienced and enjoyed physical activities that we, as a species, engage in any more. So it is of course exploited and glamourised, until we have what we now live in, a hyper-sexualised society.
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