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  1. #7051
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    that is just weird, he might as well have said jam, or badgers as youth, it would have made as much sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Gonk View Post
    ... but the fact is sex sells. I don't think there's a problem with that, it's a fact of life!
















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    [URL="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2011/08/12769.html"]A comparison of Rolling Stone Covers[/URL] by the University of Buffalo.




    “A provocative new study tends to confirm that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even “pornified.”

    University at Buffalo researchers said previous research has found sexualized images of women to have far-reaching negative consequences for both men and women.

    The study will be published in the September issue of the journalSexuality & Culture.

    The new study uses the covers of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 to 2009 to measure changes in the sexualization of men and women in popular media over time.

    “We chose Rolling Stone,” said sociology professor Erin Hatton, “because it is a well-established, pop-culture media outlet. It is not explicitly about sex or relationships; foremost it is about music. But it also covers politics, film, television and current events, and so offers a useful window into how women and men are portrayed generally in popular culture.”

    After analyzing more than 1,000 images of men and women on Rolling Stone covers over the course of 43 years, the authors came to several conclusions.

    First, representations of both women and men have indeed become more sexualized over time; and, second, women continue to be more frequently sexualized than men.

    Their most striking finding, however, was the change in how intensely sexualized images of women — but not men — have become.

    In the study, the authors developed a “scale of sexualization” to measure the intensity of sexualized representations of men and women.

    An image was given “points” for being sexualized if, for example, the subject’s lips were parted or his/her tongue was showing, the subject was only partially clad or naked, or the text describing the subject used explicitly sexual language.

    Three categories of images were identified: a) those that were, for the most part, not sexualized (i.e., scoring 0-4 points on the scale), b) those that were sexualized (5-10 points), and c) those that were so intensely sexualized that the authors labeled them “hypersexualized” (11-23 points).

    Researchers then compared the covers of the magazine by decade.

    In the 1960s they found that 11 percent of men and 44 percent of women on the covers of Rolling Stone were sexualized.

    In the 2000s, 17 percent of men were sexualized (an increase of 55 percent from the 1960s), and 83 percent of women were sexualized (an increase of 89 percent).

    Among those images that were sexualized, 2 percent of men and 61 percent of women were hypersexualized.

    “In the 2000s,” Hatton says, “there were 10 times more hypersexualized images of women than men, and 11 times more non-sexualized images of men than of women.”

    “What we conclude from this is that popular media outlets such as Rolling Stone are not depicting women as sexy musicians or actors; they are depicting women musicians and actors as ready and available for sex. This is problematic because it indicates a decisive narrowing of media representations of women.

    “We don’t necessarily think it’s problematic for women to be portrayed as ‘sexy.’ But we do think it is problematic when nearly all images of women depict them not simply as ‘sexy women’ but as passive objects for someone else’s sexual pleasure.”

    The review and analysis is important because an abundant research has shown similar images to have a range of negative consequences:

    “Sexualized portrayals of women have been found to legitimize or exacerbate violence against women and girls, as well as sexual harassment and anti-women attitudes among men and boys,” Hatton said.

    “Such images also have been shown to increase rates of body dissatisfaction and/or eating disorders among men, women and girls; and they have even been shown to decrease sexual satisfaction among both men and women.”

    “For these reasons,” Hatton said, “we find the frequency of sexualized images of women in popular media, combined with the extreme intensity of their sexualization, to be cause for concern.”

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    If sex sold there would be penises on all the things as well. Sex doesn't sell and isn't used to sell, objectified women sell and are used to sell things
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    I think that excerpt from TED would work better as static PNGs so she's not bouncing around behind the words, but it's interesting findings she's putting forth that tbh aren't all that surprising.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eldargal View Post
    If sex sold there would be penises on all the things as well. Sex doesn't sell and isn't used to sell, objectified women sell and are used to sell things
    Without wishing to undermine your point, breasts are pretty but penises really aren't.
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    True.
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    Let's face it, aside from shirtless six-pack, men don't do sexy selling as well as women appear to. The question is whether you're just selling the woman, though, which isn't the best ideology to plaster across magazines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildeybeast View Post
    Without wishing to undermine your point, breasts are pretty but penises really aren't.
    Have we found something everyone can agree on?

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    Breasts are probably better than penises, but I can't give a definite answer on that yet. :P
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    Don't worry, one day you'll get your grubby mitts on a pair

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