Editing Sexual objectification (section)

== Alternatives and critique ==
[[Ann J. Cahill]] uses the concept of ''derivitization'' as an alternative to objectification when trying to address sexual objectification's seeming judgment of all physical interactions (termed somatophobia by Cahill).  Cahill criticizes the notion of objectification as marginalizing the role of the body in one's subjective experience and therefore making it impossible to understand how being viewed as a sexually appealing body can enhance an individual's notion of self.<ref name=":1" /> {{Rp|page=842}}

Instead, Cahill uses the concept of subjectivity from the study of [[intersubjectivity]]. A subject is an individual with their unique experience of reality. Derivitization is then defined as limiting another person's subjective behaviour and experience to align with or serve your own subjective experience. In this framing, the objectification exists in sex work is viewed instead as the derivitization of having another act for only one's own subjective experience and ignoring the sex worker's experience. Drawing comparisons to the [[doctor–patient relationship]], Cahill argues that a recognition of what both people bring to a relationship and their subjective goals is what makes a relationship ethical.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Cahill |first=Ann J. |date=2014 |title=The Difference Sameness Makes: Objectification, Sex Work, and Queerness |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0887536700027264/type/journal_article |journal=Hypatia |language=en |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=840–856 |doi=10.1111/hypa.12111 |issn=0887-5367|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{Rp|page=843–847}}

=== Free use ===
"Free use" describes a [[Sexual fetishism|sexual fetish]] involving being consensually "used" as a sex object at any time and anywhere by a [[sexual partner]] when they are aroused, including while doing chores or while sleeping. It became popular online in the mid-2020s, including in [[gay pornography]], on [[Reddit]]—where one [[subreddit]] dedicated to the fetish had over 1.4 million members by 2023—and on [[TikTok]].<ref name="QueertyFU">{{cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Jake |title=The 'free use' fetish is sweeping the gay community. Is it ruthless, or a relief? |url=https://www.queerty.com/the-free-use-fetish-is-sweeping-the-gay-community-is-it-ruthless-or-a-relief-20230822 |website=[[Queerty]] |access-date=11 August 2024 |date=22 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="ViceFU">{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Magdalene |title=What's the 'Free Use' Fetish, and Why's Everyone Talking About It? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/whats-the-free-use-fetish-and-whys-everyone-talking-about-it/ |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=11 August 2024 |date=18 August 2023}}</ref>