Women as "Sex Objects"

Women are displayed as "sex objects..."

• in 1/4 of the commercials you watch each year.
• in 57% of rock music music videos.
• in magazines(1,988 ads/ 58 different magazines).

Facts

• 3/4 of women with low self-esteem engage in:
• Disordered eating
• Bullying
• Smoking and Drinking
• Suicide

Continued

• 1 in 3 girls(16-18) say sex is expected.
• 81% of ten year old girls are concerned with being "fat."
• Only 2% of women think they're beautiful.

Continued

• Most of the population disapproves of objectifying women.
• In the billboard top 100, 6 of 10 songs have lyrics that
• objectify women.
• 10-55% of women have attested to have been assulted
• by an intimate partner.

Questions

• Why is it not widely prominent that men are
• used as "sex objects?"
• Why has this type of advertising become socially acceptable?
• Why has society developed in such a way (even after
• all the women's rights and equality movements)?