Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers
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Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    Personally, I don’t care about nudity.

    My concerns are with normalizing hypersexualization. Both in the way that it turns normal nudity into some erotic situation which leads to nursing mothers being explicit and in the way it teaches people, and in particular children, that behaviour towards sex workers is normal behaviour to have when dealing with people outside of sex work. Including those sex workers.

    Having some gate between regular content and erotic content can help establish a line that easy for people, and children, to understand. If a streamer doesn’t turn off the camera to change and he or she is nude on stream, I don’t care about. If a streamer does a strip tease for the outfit change, I’d want a separation or warning. I don’t think it should be blocked, but sexualization and nudity are different things and should be treated differently. Sexuality should be a very opt-in process.

    • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      I very much agree with you, but I’m not sure the concept easily translates to online media.

      I’ve gone to nudist waterparks since I was 14, and my mother sometimes took me to the sauna at an even younger age, so basically grew up with non-sexualised nudity. But it took some social feedback to learn it, like learning the difference between looking and staring.

      That last aspect is lost when it comes to streaming or videos. There is nothing preventing you from sexualising any nudity on screen.