Sexualization Of Women In The Media Essay

Sexualisation is to make something sexual in character or quality, or to become aware of sexuality, especially in relation to men and women. Sexualisation is linked to sexual objectification and has been dismissed by some as no more than yet another moral panic about youth and sex. However, it is striking that the term appears to have helped stimulate feminist activism, speaking in some way to the experiences of young people. Building from a history and analysis of the term, there is a proposal that ‘sexualisation’ has served as an interpretive theory of contradictory gender norms, using the figure of the ‘girl’ to gesture towards an intensifying contradiction between the demands that young women display both desirability and innocence. However, there is a concern that the term has facilitated a focus in media and policy texts, which attends less to gender inequity than to sexuality as a poison of young femininity.

Every day in magazines, television, movies etc. we are bombarded with images of the supposedly perfect body. These photo shopped beauties send most of us into a frenzy, however the
Girls and boys are growing up faster and under more pressure than before with the rise of media. Parents blame the Internet and celebrity culture for exposing children to the adult world too soon. Images of thin or overly sexy celebrities, magazines aimed at seven to 13-year-olds but with content more suitable for older teenagers, and the easy availability of suggestive images are also reasons they gave researchers for children growing up too quickly. Many health professionals are also being quick to jump in and argue that a sex-soaked culture is taking an insidious toll on the emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing of children and young