There is very little noise in the advert and the imagery is very clearly suggestive of the act of oral sex. ... The advertisement is again sexually objectifying women as objects of pleasure and desire. ... This is made even more obvious by the fact that oral sex as depicted in the advertisement, serves only to pleasure the male. ... This encourages a rape culture that is already problematic in society and is due in part to the problematic representation of women as sex objects in media. ... The female being represented as a sexual object and the male being represented as a potential sexual pr...

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Semiotics Essay The Swiss linguist "Saussure developed the original formal theory of the hidden, absent elements of language" (Lemert: 1993: 22) Saussure deluded that the relationship between an object we see and the language or word we associate with that object are arbitrary, the concept of signs was therefore created. ... The fact that the woman is in a red dress is also significant when reading this image in terms of semiotics: when a woman is portrayed as the object of desire or centre of attention she is often seen as wearing a red dress. ... That they will ooze sex appeal and be i...

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The depiction of men in advertising, according to my observations of several men-targeted magazines, is quite different in almost every regard; where women are seen as sex-objects and/or artificial, men are portrayed as confident, self-reliant, and successful. ...

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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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Society stereotypes women in a negative way and thus they are confined to feeling worthless and brainwashed in thinking that they are only good for sex. Since most women are viewed as sex objects by men, they have little choice but to believe their male counter-parts. ... It is degrading to women to be viewed as sexual objects. ... Sex should not be sold at all, no matter what the circumstance. It is no wonder that women who share Satz's views are seen as sex objects. ...

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Her comparisons range from their physical nature to their intelligence, and even down to the education that each sex receives. ... In this statement she tells her fellow women to fight for equality, while flattering the opposite sex. ... "Men endeavor to sink us still lower merely to render us alluring objects for a moment." ... Men find women "alluring objects for a moment. ... Rational and independent thinking will stimulate endeavors for equality among the sexes and Wollstonecraft was the prime example of this. ...

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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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Each culture has its system whereby that normalized sex." ... There are taboos about sex, food, and clothing. ... If we focus on taboos about women, we do have different concepts and ideas based on sex, menstruation or postpartum. ... But the most interesting facts are that talking about sex is a taboo. ... If a man has touched a 'Notorious by Day' Untouchable, a menstruating woman, anyone who has fallen (from his caste), a woman who has just given birth, a corpse, or anyone who has touched any of these objects, he can be cleaned by a bath (Manu 5.85). ...

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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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Advertisements are all around us in society and can portray simple objects as fascinating merchandise that we feel the need to buy. ... Looking at a few cologne and perfume adds for Gucci, Ralph Lauren, and Armani, I came to the realization that men and women are represented in the ads as sex symbols. ... For the longest time, only women have been seen as sex objects in society, but it wasn't until recently that men were seen in the same way. ... Bordo touches on the subject that sex sells. ... To expand on the importance of the gaze, Bordo expresses that women have learned to anticipate ...

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Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... Of the five magazines, I choose twenty-five different advertisements to examine: ten of women only, ten of men only and five that were mixed sexes. ... Sandra Lipsitz Bem explains this point perfectly: Both women and men see the female in general and the female body in particular as more the object of male sexual desire than as a desiring sexual subject (or agent). ... (Bem 164) This male domination of women as sexual objects has been a long standing practice and will not change until women stand u...

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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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The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gender sex roles of society. ... One must firmly agree that women are not only under represented in the media but the media reinforces prejudiced sex roles. ... Since majority of the media representations of women are sex based, men will continue to view women as sex objects that they have an obligation to posses and conquer. ... The media reinforces the warped ideas that women provoke rape by their appearance and behavior ...

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Even in the subgenre of punk rock, women were often treated as a novelty by the music press and cultural critics – gifting bands such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash with rock notoriety, while their female counterparts, such as the Runaways and Bikini Kill, sunk into obscurity. ...

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It instinctively signifies to them that I object to everything they do. ... Naturally, the figure women possess, is attractive to the opposite sex, approaching and unresisting. ... In North America or any western society, an enormous element of this role circles around sex and the aura of sexuality. ... So, when a woman veils herself, she is rejecting that specific role, basically, she is saying that sex will not be part of her public life. ... In spite of that, when Muslim women wear hijab and object this idea, they are conversely considered as being subjugated. ...

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Abortion, international policy, marijuana, underage drinking, peer pressure, community involvement, same sex marriage and adoption are topics frequently raised by the panel. ... Since the earliest reformers in the 1800s, and especially the female reformists in the 1960s, women have claimed equality among the sexes. ... They strive to influence popular opinion, they strive to eradicate existing views of women as physical objects, mindless flesh. ...

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Children in the Family Children of either sex were both considered as equally important. ... A fabric sash or girdle was often wrapped around the waist, and was used to suspend household keys, small toilet implements such as nail scissors, ear scoops, and tweezers, and beautiful and mysterious objects such as small crystal balls and decorative spoon-like sieves, like those found in the female grave at Chessell Down, Isle of Wight. ... Silk was worked into gowns for women, tunics for men, and most especially cloaks or hooded mantles for both sexes. ...

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The American woman of today can never be too thin or too pretty. In most cases today, thin equates beauty, so the present ideal is a thin, fit, radiantly healthy woman. In magazines stuffed with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on TV, the message of what women sh...

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Marriage, now, is defined as the formal recognition of the union between a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship. ... Pontellier is described to be "the sole object of [Mr. ... Thus her hands, by remaining attached (and not cut off like those of the woman who is denied the rights of property), serve her visual appropriation of the world and proved the first object of this appropriation: her own body " (Stange 879). ...

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Ramatoulaye because infuriated and tells him "you forgot I have a heart, a mind, I am not an object to be passed from one hand to another.... It is not an accepted practice to have sex before marriage in the Islamic community. ... She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou and decides to educate her daughters on the principles of sex and how it could compromise their path ahead. ...

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I strongly agree with her thoughts and ideas distinguishing sex-role identifications. ... Women are socially constructed to believe that they have to be beautiful to be successful and that women stand as sex objects. ...

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It was acceptable in literary circles for women to enjoy pleasure of the flesh; sex was something women could partake in and like separate and unattached to their duty of bearing children. ... Women were seen as the objects of love for their beauty not for who they were or for any other reason than that the men, or so-called "lovers- really loved them. ...

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It is in this marriage where she holds the least power because, unlike her first four marriages where she dominated the rich, submissive men and forced them, with sex or lip, to give her money, she actually loved her fifth husband. ... Here, again, the reader sees although Walter found Griselda beautiful, the marriage is still considered a business arrangement where she is the object being exchanged. ...

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Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... " - Dasimayya The composition, like that of Basavanna's as well upholds the philosophy of transcendence of social constructs such as that of gender, to finally unite with the higher being, the object of love and worship, the God. ...

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