Chalk another one up to the denigration of women. I heard a radio station’s advertise Hugh Hefner’s most recent Playboy spread.

It appears that women’s nude bodies dangle from every possible angle in today’s society. We are seen in a constant state of undress in countless magazines, calendars, Web sites and movies. Strip joints for men abound in virtually every city.

What is the end result? Some of the results damage women’s progress as humans, subtlety. Women are harassed at the work place, fall victim to stereotypes or run into a glass ceiling.

Other results are more dangerous. Male and female relationships are damaged, marriages are destroyed, women’s jobs are compromised and, in some cases, this societal dilemma can even lead rape and murder.

Since the influx of pornography, female respect has gone the way of long skirts. After all, it’s kind of hard to have respect for a gender when they are constantly depicted in a state of undress.

There is hardly any male nudity to balance the constant flow of female nudity. There is something quite insidious about a society that depicts only one gender in a constant, compromised state.

Unless this situation is changed and laws are passed in regards to the obvious smut versus art issue, (and the two are night and day obvious) there will be more divorces, “glass ceilings,” rapes and more junior high school girls attending school dressed like prostitutes.

Margaret Hunter Lunt, Otisfield

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