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Is there a level when objectification is OK (if at all)? Like isn't everyone objectified initially as you only have there appearance to go by until you find out more about them or what about a one night stand where both parties are in agreement isn't that a relationship that is purely about sex

nothing else? Is that considered acceptable behaviour or not? When you wear revealing outfits (both men and women) what reason do you wear it for and how do people respond to such outfits? Does the idea that certain industries (such as the sex industry) are almost purely built around

the idea of objectification bother you?

There's nothing wrong with thinking a man or woman is sexually attractive, as long as you don't use it as an excuse to act like an donkey-cave. Even calling it "objectification" is a misnomer.

Attraction and objectification are two entirely different things. Attraction is about interest and desire, objectification is about seeing a person only in terms of what they can do for you. Looking at a hot guy and thinking "wow, I want him" is fine, as long as you don't forget that he's an actual person with desires of his own that do not necessarily include giving you what you want. It only becomes objectification when you do things like acting whiny and entitled when he won't take his shirt off for you.

If you ever do life drawing, you get used to objectifying people. The person there isn't so much a person as they are just an object to be used as reference.

I wouldn't say that's particularly harmful.

Damn it, I have to agree with Peregrine on this one.

Despite being absolutely faithful to my spouse, I do look at scenery when it is there. Such is absolute objectification, unabashedly. I see no harm in it.

This in no way means it would be okay to speak to any part of that scenery as if they were only a piece of scenery; it just means that in no way to I ever consider what the hopes and dreams are of the person whose nice butt I happen to be staring at.

Objectifying someone internally is always fine. Your thoughts are your own. However, treating others like objects instead of people isn't okay.