Oversexualization in media and culture?

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My first impulse seems to this - we've lived, for the last 25 or 30 years at least, in a neoliberal market where - as expected by evolution - sex sells, making money is the one noble priority of being alive, and we've had our culture on most other metrics evacuated in the name of making money. Yes, certain civil rights movements have continued through the 2010's but I think they've been more or less trying to use the system as they found it and that system was already deep in decadence.

What will be very interesting to see is how Covid effects this. I remember hearing, for example, that fascism was less of a self-consistent political-economic theory and more of a cultural immune response. Cultural battles of ideology can twist up the dials but disease and immune-disgust reaction can add to that in the literal sense.

The above makes me wonder not whether we're going to slip into fascism of some kind, I think the whole culture is moving in a new direction of sorts, but whether this might cause us to claw back some of the sexual marketing and advertising being that we've gotten so disease-conscious that people in many places around the world are locked in their homes.