Meet the New Smut, Worse Than the Old Smut, by Sean Fitzpatrick
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By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine, December 11, 2019
Sean Fitzpatrick is a senior contributor to Crisis. He’s graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and the Headmaster of Gregory the Great Academy. He lives in Scranton, Penn. with his wife and family of four.
There was an underbelly ripple when the news broke that Victoria’s Secret had called off its Christmas season “fashion show,” a prime-time network TV event featuring provocative displays of risqué lingerie. Cancel culture analysts have conjectured at an awareness of the brand’s lack of “body diversity” together with a growing sensitivity to the problem of female objectification. But the answer has less to do with a moral compass appearing in the American palm than it does with a smartphone already occupying it. It is simple: Victoria’s Secret is surrendering to the squalid world of online pornography.
That much is not surprising. What is surprising, and sickening, is how nudity, once the sign of human innocence, has become the sign of its corruption.
Victoria’s Secret, together with Playboy Magazine, can’t keep up with the Age of the Internet. Some may recall the shock Playboy caused in 2016 when it stopped featuring nudity. What was the world coming to? Or, rather, what has it come to? In an age of online on-demand pornography, with every possible perversion only a click away, this move by the former industry leader was paradoxically calculated to boost sales by reigning in the smut which had grown commonplace. …
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