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I know why she has to have exposed skin, but... it still doesn't constitute exhibitionism.
As far as the in universe explanation goes...
I mean, does it biologically make sense?
No, not really, but also, its sci-fi.
Does it thematically make sense?
Entirely yes.
All of MGSV rotates around questions of identity, connection/relation to yourself, and others.
Yep, she basically appears to be handcrafted as a beautiful woman who has a ludicrous reason she has to be scantily clad, and she can't talk back, for roughly equally contrived reasons.
... Can you see past that?
Can you see the person inside, beyond the distracting skin, deeper than that?
Do you grow to respect her and her choices, as a person?
As the game progresses, and she's in more ludicrous scenes... do you actually find youself feeling disgust as a voyeur... because she shouldn't be treated that way?
If you just get stuck on the 'Kojima is just a horndog' angle, I'd argue you missed the point he was trying to make.
Basically, he keeps trying to get you to objectify her so hard, view her as nothing other than over the top fan service.
But there's a person in there, a kind of strange, awkward person, but one with a ferocious sense of duty and responsibility, who is extremely capable.
She 'speaks' through actions.
Do you see her, or only her outward, superficial appearance?
Its... fairly notable that Kojima's whole way of doing many 'cutscenes' is that they're often in first person, or can be, and where you are looking, what you are focusing on... can significantly alter the actual scene you experience. Characters react differently, say different things, depending on where you are looking, at what point in the 'cutscene'.
You're the often the one choosing or not choosing to oogle her.
You can just not.
As to Paz... yeah, RIP, life and war are full of horrible tragedies, they hurt more when you care about them, when you can empathize with them, when you trust them.
What, did we... think war and conspiracies of power... did not involve innocent young women being forced into impossible situations with basically 0 'good' possible outcomes?
... Have you heard of maybe this whole Epstein files thing?
Tiny smidgen of the amount of horrific shit that's been done to women in war, that's happening somewhere right now.