The tendency to objectify women may in some cases also develop into a desire to annihilate the whole question of female desire, let alone agency.

Avani Johnson, who was at the Timothée Chalamet contest, says she believes the latest trend has taken off because "women are relishing the opportunity to objectify men in a complete switch in power dynamics".

"Yes, I was objectified," he says, with a smile.

“As women, a lot of times our body has been this object to be looked at and to be objectified,” she said.

You are being objectified and positioned as a bit of a sex symbol here.