I'm usually writing about religious issues, but I see religion as a big part of why the world has such a messed up view of the Human body.
Christianity, and Islam especially, have given our cultures some ridiculous views about men, women, sexuality, nudity, et. al.
It is natural for people to be attracted to each other, whether that attraction is opposite or same-sex. It seems that people have turned natural Human attraction into something it is not. Natural attraction is not automatically "objectification"; that is not really what nature is doing. Nature is attempting to facilitate the procreation the species. It's how God made all of us.
Not everyone who looks at another person with a natural lure of attraction is "objectifying" them. Women look at other men and women with natural allure. It doesn't mean that person is "objectifying".
The biggest problem is men and women often see each other very differently. Women lust and "objectify" men all the time. For a man it's typically taken as a compliment. Women not so much, unless they find the other person attractive as well. Then it's not objectification, it's just seen or felt as natural attraction.
You're not wrong about SOME men "objectifying" women, but that is certainly not the norm, at least it shouldn't be.
However, what we should be cautious of doing it applying labels to natural instincts that are actually working as Nature intended and which are beneficial to the species as a whole.
Men and women are VERY different creatures. We should not pretend to fully understand the male mind if we are not and have not been living as a male all our lives, and vise-versa.
Too many times it seems women want to "feminize" males, turn them into something we are not, rather than realize that men are men. NO, this does not mean you have to put up with some neanderthal idiot objectifying you, or worse! (What it does mean that someone's mother did not raise their son to have respect for how a woman would like to be treated.)
It's not a simple issue.
You could fill a library of books written about why men and women have difficulty understanding the opposite sex.
What I really appreciated about your article was this: "we should fee free to dress and look however we want and not be bullied into submission to either modesty culture values of revealing fashion trends".
ABSOLUTELY! You nailed it.
And you are also correct, "Nudity does NOT necessarily equal sexuality".
Bingo!
Unfortunately, religion has given our cultures an unholy and unhealthy Puritanical view of sexuality. I regret they are views that will take a few more centuries to undo.
