Sexual Objectification Essay
Has anyone smelt the perfume, “Oh Lola” by Marc Jacobs? The scent has described as, Flirtatious, charming, and sparkling. It bursts open with a bright and whimsical effervescence and leaves you flirting with your senses. Maybe this is what the advertisers were thinking too when they really went to town to show just how flirtatious a perfume bottle could really be. ‘The print advertisement for “Oh, Lola!” presents a young Dakota Fanning an oversized perfume bottle placed between her legs. Immediately her pose and product placement screams hmm, I think I will leave this one to your own imagination. When I looked closer though, I noticed that there are aspects of the ad that suggest Fanning is young and naïve and don’t coincide with the sexual
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Sexual objectification is a key component of sexualisation, one that is predominantly used in the media. Sexual objectification is when a person, a human being is viewed as a thing, an object, an object of sexual desire and pleasure. The sexualisation of youth carries its own definition. In 2010 the UK psychologist Linda Papadopoulos noted in her Review of the Sexualisation of Young People that, “Sexualisation is the imposition of adult sexuality on to children and young people before they are capable of dealing with it mentally, emotionally and physically,” It is important to understand that sexualisation of youth occurs not only in the media. Though young people are not constantly being presented as sexy, the media has a great impact and influence on a society and teenage girls are being exposed to these sexualised ideas through mediums such as clothing, cosmetics, music lyrics and videos technology based entertainment and even the Olympics. I don’t know about you but I find it a bit strange that sparkles and make up has any relevance to showing your skill as a gymnastic athlete or are very revealing leotards are at all appropriate. What message is this sending to your daughters, to nieces, your granddaughters? Fundamentally is showing them to be
Sexual objectification is a key component of sexualisation, one that is predominantly used in the media. Sexual objectification is when a person, a human being is viewed as a thing, an object, an object of sexual desire and pleasure. The sexualisation of youth carries its own definition. In 2010 the UK psychologist Linda Papadopoulos noted in her Review of the Sexualisation of Young People that, “Sexualisation is the imposition of adult sexuality on to children and young people before they are capable of dealing with it mentally, emotionally and physically,” It is important to understand that sexualisation of youth occurs not only in the media. Though young people are not constantly being presented as sexy, the media has a great impact and influence on a society and teenage girls are being exposed to these sexualised ideas through mediums such as clothing, cosmetics, music lyrics and videos technology based entertainment and even the Olympics. I don’t know about you but I find it a bit strange that sparkles and make up has any relevance to showing your skill as a gymnastic athlete or are very revealing leotards are at all appropriate. What message is this sending to your daughters, to nieces, your granddaughters? Fundamentally is showing them to be