Upvoted because I think you have a fair point, and I agree that the two are not mutually exclusive. But that's the point I'm getting at -- the sad truth is that

Upvoted because I think you have a fair point, and I agree that the two are not mutually exclusive. But that's the point I'm getting at -- the sad truth is that sex sells. People love tabloids, they love controversy, they love sketchiness. And I think your comparison with Terry Richardson is very apt. As a child comment to this one you made says, it does look like the countercultural vanguard moved past this kind of edgy towards a different one that is more concerned with notions of social justice and equity. Not to derail this thread too much, but I think that one is potentially even more insidious because it's much more spiritually authoritarian and panoptical. But that one too is beginning to elicit fatigue, especially with corporate sponsors that for a while had been attempting to subsume it into a third position that they now believe may have become [1] untenable. I guess the question is, what's next? [1]https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cut-diversity-programs-to-avoid-conservative-backlash-report-2020-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cut-diversity-program...