44%–81% of music videos contain sexual imagery
42% of female artists were coded as wearing “alluring clothing”.
Analysis of MTV music videos has found objectification in 44.4% of the 30- second clips analysed.
Institute of Education which found that 66% of young people reported the media as their primary source of information on sex and relationships.
defend women’s right to ‘freely express themselves in a sexualized manner’, argues that current government policies are not adequate to ensuring gender equality and preventing harm to women and suggests a number of things the media and government could do to combat the sexualisation of women and related harms
A 2005 study of 2,081 young people in Rochdale also found that pornography influences young men’s expectations of sexual relationships, “leading to pressure on young women to comply” and grooming young men and boys to expect sexual acts normalised in pornography.
http://realsociology.edublogs.org/2010/12/03/object-challenging-the-sexualisation-of-women-in-popular-culture/
Supermarkets have also taken to selling soft porn - on low-level shelving. A recent magazine blatantly titled "SEX SCHOOL" is hardly what I expected my kids to encounter on a trip for groceries.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/37158.html
“The sexualisation of popular
culture and the ubiquity of
sexualised imagery of women
were described by stakeholder
organisations at all the
consultation events as
conducive contexts for violence
against women”
Realising Rights, Fulfilling
Obligations: A Template for an
Integrated Strategy on Violence
End Violence Against Women
Coalition
Against Women for the UK
“The latest strip club to hit The City aims to
provide bankers with a night of attractive
women. Most girls range from mildly attractive
to hot - most with good firm bodies to fit
different tastes. From the slim girls with fake
breasts to the voluptuous with natural curves,
you'll no doubt find someone to appeal. Varying
in prettiness they're good dancers across the
board so it's up to you what you find attractive
and where you want to splash the cash!”
Listings review for a lap dancing club located in
the City of London
“[the] gross
underrepresentation of women
or girls in films ... reflects a
missed opportunity to present a
broad spectrum of girls and
women in roles that are nonsexualised”.
American Psychological
Association (2007)
APA Task Force on the
Sexualisation of Girls
“ ‘
editor Chris Bell reveals the tricks...
- Dress sexily. For some reason bikinis,
lingerie and high heels seem to impress
the judges. Weird.
- Send a variety of photos, not just the
one that miraculously disguises your
hump.
- Groom yourself. Especially
How to be a Honey’ FHM’s deputy‘down there’
if you
snap from the waist up. And please hide
that Playboy tattoo
’re in your bikini or underwear. Or”.More magazine, 28 July 2008Report of the
To be treated with dignity is one of the foundations of human rights. To what
extent can women claim respect in societies where there are extensive and
increasingly legitimised, sex industries? Treating a human being as a
commodity, means that they are denuded of humanity such that abuse
becomes acceptable.
‘thing’ a’Dr Liz. Kelly, Equality and Diversity Forum Seminar, London 2006
“When I entered this [lap dancing] I
thought it was like showgirls dancing on
stage providing entertainment. You
[think you will] look like a star, and get
paid lots of money for looking like
Britney Spears. The reality was very
different and the way in which women
were treated by club owners was
appalling. Many women go into the
industry being wrongly sold what it is
’ll”.‘
“
bullying in the corridors that we were
completely unaware of as a school. Some of
the Year 10 girls, especially, began to say
There was quite a lot of low-level sexual
“
time
Male PSHE teacher.
I’m sick of boys touching my bum all the– they’ve got no right to”.
WOMANKIND (2007)
Changing Lives: Gender on the UK Education
Agenda
“
societal consequences such as sexism, sex bias and sexist attitudes
The sexualisation of girls and women may contribute to broader”.
The American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualisation
of Girls (2007).Challenging Violence,Angela’, a woman formerly in lap dancing (2008)
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