Personally I think the whole "power exchange" is just more of the side effects on how we came to perceive sex during the agricultural age. When we went from on monogamous dynamic to the MINE, MINE, MINE mentality. As a single straight male swinger I can see both sides of this coin at clubs and events. Men DO have the imposing power in the all important Veto. Yet it is women who really rule the day, even in what is more or less already applied consent (to a point) there is a pretty clear cut paradigm present.
Have you read Sex at dawn yet it kind of shows (as best any one really can) the road map of how we got to this point Sexually. Sadly tho i think even desired objectification is here to stay.
I've heard a lot about that book, I'll have to check it out. But I'm intrigued by that last statement, "Sadly tho i think even desired objectification is here to stay." What do you mean by that?
I mean that it is so much a part of our culture that there is no going back, people are always in some ways or another to be considered objects and objects are to be sought after and used or collected.
Yes, the video link made the point that sexual objectification is nothing but an offshoot of the objectification and commodification of people in general.
But your use of the word "culture" makes me wonder if there is any place in the world where such objectification -- of any kind -- doesn't exist.
There are plenty of massively remote communities where such things are not common. Key word there is remote.