The Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-diller-phd/internet-porn-body-image_b_1777026.html By Dr. Vivian Diller 8/20/2012 One has to wonder what the late Helen Gurley Brown would make of the sexually explicit world now available to young teens, both for viewing and experiencing. While HGB spent her life encouraging woman to “have it all,” even she may wonder if we’ve gone [...]
Kyrie [Eleison] is Greek for “Lord Have Mercy,” and it was the name Sheila Hageman took when she abandoned any notion of going to college and became a stripper at the age of 18. For seven years, Hageman had a split identity: the good girl who appeared in local theater productions, and the naughty one [...]
Full, original article posted here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/feminists-pornification-of-women By Gail Dines and Julia Long December 1, 2011 Don’t mix up feminists fighting the the corporate media with rightwing attempts to police sex “Sexualisation” has become a much-debated issue in recent years, and a noticeable feature is the assumption that feminists who oppose sexual objectification are generating a “moral [...]
Abstract: Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an individual’s concept of the nature of conjugal relations. This, in turn, alters both sexual attitudes and behavior. It is a major threat to marriage, to family, to children and to individual happiness. In undermining marriage it is one of the factors in undermining social [...]
by Mike McManus Coldwater, Mich. —When Pat Trueman led the fight against obscenity for the Reagan and Bush I administrations, there were 120 convictions in five years. “All major pornographers were put out of business or put in jail,” he told the Maryland Coalition Against Pornography recently. However, there has not been any prosecution for [...]
I finally found a word I’ve needed for some time now. It’s a word I wanted whenever I saw pictures on Facebook of young females striking the same robotic sexualized pose. It’s a word I wanted when sampling prime-time television programs and hearing male and female anatomy used as punch lines. It’s a word I [...]
Abstract: Journalists, child advocacy organizations, parents and psychologists have argued that the sexualization of girls is a broad and increasing problem and is harmful to girls.The APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls was formed in response to these expressions of public concern. This report examines and summarizes psychological theory, research and clinical experience addressing the [...]
BUFFALO, NY, August 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by University at Buffalo sociologists has found a rise in “pornified” images of women in popular media. The researchers are warning that these findings are cause for concern because previous research has found that such images of women have negative consequences for both men and women. [...]
More than 2,000 women had NHS operations last year while thousands of others may have sought some private treatment Demand for female genital cosmetic surgery – so-called “designer vaginas” – has risen five-fold in a decade on the NHS yet most women do not need it, researchers have found. Surgeons who treat women when there [...]
Abstract: A number of journalists and scholars have pointed to the sexual objectification of women and men in popular media to argue that Western culturehas become ‘‘sexualized’’ or even ‘‘pornified.’’ Yet it is not clear whether men or women have become more frequently—or more intensely sexualized—over time. Ina longitudinal content analysis of images of women [...]
