The sexual objectification of women and girls that pervades society is a major ethical challenge that demands more systematic philosophical response. I claim that we may frame this problem in Heideggerian terms. I begin with a sketch of what modern sexual objectification is: from the dehumanizing images that saturate everyday life to the statistically pervasive practices of sexual violence. These abuses tend to be covered up through being cast as simply women’s expressions of sexual liberation that are naturally different from men’s. I show how these experiences are phenomena in Heidegger’s sense; and how recent initiatives to make them visible are incipient forms of Heideggerian phenomenology. I suggest that they pre-philosophically indicate a needed feminist neo-Heideggerian criticism of modernity. Heidegger shows a destructive side of modern freedom that has resulted in an expanding objectification of the natural world. Our criticism would show something similar happening to women and girls.