AI NAsties: Male Sexuality, Moral Panic and the Art Nobody Asked You to Like

This essay is historical, scientific and philosophical in roughly equal measure. It will examine how the current panic fits into a pattern stretching back further than most of its participants realize. It will engage seriously with the psychological and sociological frameworks being deployed against sexual expression in AI creative communities, including social constructivism, objectification theory and radicalization research, not to dismiss them wholesale but to examine where they have genuine explanatory power and where they have been extended well beyond what their evidence supports. It will draw on evolutionary psychology and developmental science to offer a different account of male sexuality than the one currently dominating these conversations. And it will make an unambiguous philosophical argument in defense of the full spectrum of artistic expression, including the transgressive, the gratuitous, the lowbrow and the purely gratificatory, not because all of it is good art but because the freedom that protects the art nobody asked for is the same freedom that protects the art everybody eventually agrees matters.