As one article says "Sex sells" (Nelson & Paek 2005). ... Nelson and Paek say "Despite women's gains in the real world, the media world still depicts women as sex objects even in media targeted to women". ... Everything from supermodels to magazines, even to sex scenes on TV can affect one's psychological identity. Only a few decades ago, men and women could not be filmed or televised in the same bed, now we can basically view an entire sex scene without consequences. ...

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Yet, these giant corporations still bring women down to being seen as nothing more than objects to be objectified. This is another blemish on society because despite the obstacles woman have overcome for years to be seen as more than the weaker sex, mass media still portrays woman as objects. ... " Woman are more than objects. ... Carl's Jr. another huge corporation chooses to show women wearing next to nothing, devouring a burger and purely selling this food with pure sex appeal. ... Yes, woman want to be admired, but they also want to be seen as more than just an object. ...

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Media often portrays women as objects. ... Women are taught to be passive and sex objects. ... We are always showing women as objects, having plastic surgery, getting breast implants we are teaching women that their real breasts are never ok. ... I hope that as time goes on more people will be aware of the problem we have in our mass media culture and eventually women won't be such targets as sex objects, or the weaker less important sex. ...

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In the Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir argues that "Women are not born, but made", which is also questionable. ... The Second Sex can be read in the most varied languages of the most varied cultures. ... The human culture, writes Simone de Beauvoir, has given supremacy to the sex that hunts and kills, and not to the one that gives birth, to masters of nature and not to the natural functions. ... In this point, men identify themselves as subject and women are object. ... We can say men not equal to not-women; or there is no existence of subject and object between men and women because everything...

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Sex sells. Who, according to society, is more interested in sex? Men are supposed to be interested in sex more than women. It is not lady-like to be a woman and want sex more than a man. ... Men look at a woman as an object of sexual affection. ...

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Both genders are exploited in artwork in media because sex sells. ... Women are no longer simply painted nude for a particular person, but Berger's statement still holds true, "she turns herself into an object "and most particularly an object of vision: a sight " (Berger 47). ... They are seen as an object that pleases the men the ad caters to. ... Now, the men are objects. ... Sex sells and continues to be a popular topic in artwork. ...

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He states they are weak, lazy, and stupid and only desire sex for- shadowing how he will use them as his pawns. ... To show the theme of pride, reputation, to explain the men's behavior, and most importantly to be used as objects by Iago's devices. Iago said women are as objects and he uses them as objects. ... Women are the ordered objects of Iago's plans that he uses by changing in the men's eyes to achieve his plans....

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She believes that if she gives them lots of sex they will carry on loving her. It comes across as though she wants the security of a husband, as she does not feel love towards them and does not want them to leave her, so she gives them sex to make them stay. Chaucer presents their relationship as being extremely one sided, as the Wife of Bath does not value her husbands love at all, and instead is only interested in materialistic objects and the belongings in which her husband has to offer her. She feels she does not need to repay her husband as she is satisfied with the land she has won, an...

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Women are the sex symbols of music. ... Women are gifted and talented individuals who work hard and deserve to be respected regardless of their sex. They should not be treated as sex objects because it slowly becomes the norm in society and feeds into this culture. ... Shakira is a perfect example of a natural, self-made artist who has become a sex symbol in today's music industry. ... In a society where sex sells, the music industry takes advantage of women and makes their profit. ...

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A lot of individuals are familiar with motor vehicle ads that tend to depict women as sex objects or subjects to men. ... A review of the position of women of the modern society and of the past will reveal that women have been the central Object of exploitation and distortions in society through ages. (Lal, The Crisis in human values) The ad assumes that by using the humor they can connect better with a wider audience yet they have degraded the woman's value, making them seen as easygoing objects rather than getting them more attention which is sexism. ...

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N ow imagine after some tests that there are no internal or external sex organs whatsoever. ... What letter is after the word sex on your drivers license? ... There are two sexes, male and female and you must be one or the other. ... A documentary viewed in t he same class entitled DreamWorld, exposed the demeaning portrayal of women as sex objects in music videos. ... The women in the videos were all sex objects; beautiful, buxom, sexy, promiscu ous and lacked any moral values whatsoever. ...

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N ow imagine after some tests that there are no internal or external sex organs whatsoever. ... What letter is after the word sex on your drivers license? ... There are two sexes, male and female and you must be one or the other. ... A documentary viewed in t he same class entitled DreamWorld, exposed the demeaning portrayal of women as sex objects in music videos. ... The women in the videos were all sex objects; beautiful, buxom, sexy, promiscu ous and lacked any moral values whatsoever. ...

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Sexual Promiscuity Sex, it is a beautiful thing, an experience reserved for a man and woman who are in love. Love is often made in lust, and when lust takes over, sex becomes and act of pure pleasure. In The Three Guest of Heile of Bersele and The Miller's tale, sex is promiscuous, prostitution rampant, and disloyalty prominent, which shows how women can affect their own self-respect, and how men take advantage of them. ... She, as was common, was reduced to an object of a man's desire. ... IN conclusion, Sex cannot be treated as an act of pure pleasure, for when it beco...

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She is introduced and portrayed (however tragically) as a trophy girl, an object or prize that Dunny competes for (and wins one time) against his best friend and enemy Boy Staunton. ... The Three of Colborne: Three women at Colborne College "who were sufficiently interested in [Dunny], to give [him] a sex life of a sort."... She is the type of girl who needs all that the world has to offer and goes to any extent to get it especially in the area of sex. ... Dunny describes her as a woman "who thought of sex as the one great, true, apostolic key and cure and could not get enough of it." Davies" ...

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Women were always considered inferior beings compared to men, given the role of sexual objects rather than real individuals. ... While this period was often associated with ennui, women were presented as objects of pleasure that could heal the mind from this state of boredom, as Stephen Romer quotes it, "Woman [is] not only the foil to the Decadent writer, but his match.... However, some also thought that this new behavior was also a way for them to not only rise in society but also take over by making themselves independent from the opposite sex. ... She presented her will and her reluct...

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Since the 1940's, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. ... The first stereotype is a beautiful sex goddess. ... In the 1950's women are either sex goddess or homemakers, but they are both looking for husbands. ... She is conservative and elegant, definitely not a sex symbol. ... In the 1940's women's characters were stereotyped as sex objects. ...

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Women seen as objects. ... In the absence of other traits, a woman wearing a bathing suit might not be coded as a sex object while a fully clothed woman in a suggestive pose could be considered a sex object.... I plan on becoming a mother some day and I don't want my children to believe it is wrong to have breast but that they are ok to have if they are used as a sexual object. ...

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Myth of the Latin Woman The principal notion about life revealed in this essay is that in Western societies the Latin Women are viewed stereotypically as a sex object or selfless housewives and obsequious workers. ... The author refers to the several incidents where she has been viewed stereotypically as a person who is capable of doing only a very simple job or being an object that satisfies a man's lust. ... She says she felt disappointment at that time because by her work she was perpetuating the stereotype of the women of her nationality as hot-blooded and hot-tempered sex kit...

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The men would hoot and holler and even grab at her as if her value was that of a mere object. ... Women were still fighting for the nineteenth amendment to pass (the right to vote and not to be discriminated based on sex), they wanted to be able to practice every right which a man would practice. ... Women had become fairly accustomed to the absence of sex discrimination, and equality was setting in by the 1970's. ... Indeed, women were not equal to men half a century ago in the work place or in society; however, they were still respected and looked at as human, not simply as mere obje...

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This makes things impersonal and they become an object. This is part of the social conditioning, women are objects, they must be controlled. ... The handmaids are forced to have sex with the commanders. To symbolize that the wives are a part of this and that they will be the mothers the handmaids lay between the wives legs as they have sex. ...

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However, inequalities between the sexes go back much further than just the 20th century. ... I observed inequalities between the sexes not only in sports, but also in "Fiero," "The Asheville Reader," and my personal experiences as a woman and an athlete. ... As stated in "Fiero," Chapter 13, "Christianity exalted the Virgin Mary as an object of veneration. ... It said the object of the ban was "maintaining discipline and order on the field of play." ... This brings up another issue that exemplifies inequalities between the sexes: physical appearance. ...

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(Parker I 1) She becomes accustomed to trading sex for security, a characteristic exchange it appears to her, within her society. ... The protagonist of the story, Hazel Morse, portrays a woman that existed as a sexual object for men. ...

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Bare Bodies Victoria's Secret is an easily recognized brand. I chose to write on a Victoria's Secret ad featuring their new line called, "Body Bare". The ad shows a delicate, skinny, model, with her back slightly arched, gazing into the distance. Her shiny, bronze skin greatens her sensuality an...

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For example, women are often seen as objects of desire; they are valued for their attractiveness but with little else to offer. ... We are taught to behave differently than the opposite sex starting during the time we are children. ...

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However, as time passed by the two categories of human sexes began wanting to command respect to each other. ... Feminism can be considered as a philosophical and sociological theory, which supports that the two sexes are equal not only in a social and economical level but in an urban and political level as well. ... Generally speaking, we could say that thanks to Feminism, women are no longer considered as an object, the society, unfortunately not always, tries to behave equally to both sexes, and men try to consider women as equal. ...

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