It will be best if in the future, all public reporting on sexual
matters of individual people will be banned.
Of course, reporting to provide sexual education, or reporting on
scientific research into sexual topics, is not to be banned. What ought to
be banned is only the reporting on sexual matters concerning individual
people.
From the perspective of advancing sexual freedom, reporting on the
sexuality of individuals is very counterproductive indeed, for a variety of
reasons.
First, for humans as sexual beings, nothing is as interesting as sex.
Thus, because it receives so much attention and is discussed again and
again, anything sexual reported on an individual person gets blown out
of proportion. If there is just a slight rumor on, for example, a sexual
affair of a president, people will be more attracted to this topic then
to a president's economic policy, even though the latter may have much
more impact on people's lives.
Second, humans as sexual beings are intrinsically envious of the sexual
possessions of others. Thus, if a sexual affair of a parliamentarian
with a movie star is reported in the media, then this creates resentment
towards the parliamentarian, not so much because people would reject
the idea of the sexual relationship per se, but because people don't want
to grant to others sexual gratifications which they themselves are
denied.
To give the media the freedom to report on the sexuality of individuals
is an anachronism of the same category as repressive tolerance
(tolerance for repressors results in more repression, not in more tolerance).
Because viewing sexual acts, or hearing of sexual acts involving other
people, will result in jealousy and aggression, humans conduct sexual
acts normally in privacy. This has long become part of the human nature.
It is unrealistic to dream of changing the human nature, so that we can
all live naked and mingle like bonobos. We anyway do not need the
bonobo kind of sexual freedom. If we all are afforded the opportunity to
have a satisfying sex life in privacy, then we have achieved all that
needs to be achieved.
