[[material added to the race part] “Implications include the idea that Black women may internalize video messages about beauty and sexuality, and that Black men and White individuals may form inaccurate and harmful ideas of Black femininity because of music video images.” 2
[material added to the article] According to a study that Oyesomi and Salawu did, women who show off their body have no respect for themselves, but they’re comfortable in their skin, meaning they’ll show off as much as they want. It shows or sends the message to viewers that no matter the size or shape you are, if you’re comfortable with your body, there’s nothing wrong with showing off what you got. [1]
[material added to the race part] Many pop, R&B, and rap songs portray: “(1) messages of men in power over women, (2) sex being a top priority for men, (3) the objectification of women, (4) sexual violence against women, (5) women being defined by having a man, (6) and women as not valuing themselves.” [1][2] Women have the sexual role of pleasing men in many occasions when it comes to film or music, sending the message out to society that women are still sex objects, depending on their physical appearance.
[sub heading added] EFFECTS OF SEXUALIZATION
Younger adults who had a greater exposure to rap videos are two times more likely to have multiple sexual partners and over 1.5 times more likely to have contributed a disease. Those who watch violent and sexist music videos affects young people’s sexual and violent behaviors and attitudes towards their own gender sex roles as well as in intimate relationships with their partners.[2] The main thing that everyone can obviously see is that in any media where women are sexualized is saying that women are “sex objects” .
Sexualization has negative effects on woman. It will cause cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, sexuality, and attitudes and beliefs.[3]2 Self-objectification has increasingly shown that it stops the ability to concentrate and focus on one’s attention leading to poor performance on mental activities: mathematical computations or logical reasoning.[3] A study determined that thinking about the body and comparing it to “sexualized cultural ideals” disrupted mental capacity.[3] Now when it comes to thinking about your own body, it leads to a variety of negative emotions including shame, anxiety and even self-disgust. Sexualization can also lead to three of the most common mental health problems such as eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. [3] “Sexual well-being is an important part of healthy development and overall well-being...” [3]3 but there have been some negative consequences towards female’s healthy sexuality. Females have decreased the use of protection during intercourse, meaning they don’t use condoms, and diminish sexual assertiveness. These negative effects may or may not lead to more sexual problems in the future during their adulthood. If media is involved for sexualizing women, it causes effects in femininity and sexuality. Women who frequently get engaged with this media activity, show off a stronger endorsement of sexual stereotypes that make women sex objects. [3] Women are also the center of attention when it comes to media.
Sexualization of women doesn’t only effect women, but it also effects other groups and society. For example, it can make it difficult for men to find an “acceptable” partner and or to actually enjoy the relationship or intimacy with their female partner. [3]3 Older women do tend to conform to a younger standard of the female beauty. But most importantly it can affect the women's careers, especially int eh science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields (STEM). It can also increase the rates of sexual harassment, sexual violence and an increase demand for child pornography. [3]4
[sub heading added] SEXUALIZATION
There are four different types of sexualization: favoring sexual self-objectification, relating sexual desirability to self-esteem, equating physical attractiveness with being sexy, and lastly contextualizing sexual boundaries. [2]The first type of sexualization, favoring sexual subjectification, is when a women treats herself as an sexual object, but the treatment is chosen by the woman. The second type of sexualitzation, equating physical attractiveness with being sexy, is that being physically attractive is the equivalent to looking sexy but they are not physically atrractive unless they look sexy. If they’re not physically attractive, they need to look sexy to appear physically attractive. The third type of sexualization, relating sexual desirability to self-esteem, is being sexually desirable to be satisfied. For example, “she may base her self-esteem on other contingencies besides beings sexually desirable, such as others’ approval, but her self-esteem is also dependent on sexual desirability”. [2][4]1365 And lastly, the fourth type of sexualization, contextualizing sexual boundary, is considered because it violates sexuality social norms. Either one of these types of sexualization will have a positive or a negative affect on the viewer.
References
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P4-2167240048/influence-of-sexualisation-of-women-in-music-videos
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-019-09617-3
https://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report-summary.pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e485/1a7b75de7fc1bfd6665f5a4e10f4f71cc298.pdf
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- ^ a b Oyesomi, Kehinde; Salawu, Abiodun (2018-12-01). "Influence of Sexualisation of Women in Music Videos on the Body Image of Nigerian Female Youths". Gender & Behaviour. 16 (3): 12059. ISSN 1596-9231.
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