[Avodah] Habituation

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

RZS:
> And here's where, AIUI, you go wrong: the heter is not habituation but
> distraction.  He is busy with his work, and the context makes him see
> the person before him not as a woman but as an anatomical construction
> that is either functioning or not.  Similarly, a photographer sees a
> female subject not as a woman but as an object to be manipulated so as
> to properly integrate into the composition.

There is actually a Gmara almost exactly  on topic - supporting Zev.

IIRC
Watching animals mate is assur because it provokes hirhur

However, a farmer is allowed to physically mate two animals mamash with
his hands - because due to the work/tirda he is somply too occupied to
have hirhurim. [Or his hirhurim are about money!]

I don't recall the specific daf - but I do recall giving it a few months
ago on a Shabbos. And so it's either end of bava m'tziah or beginning
of bava basra

KT
RRW
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