"In 2011 in Lebanon, [women] don't have the right to transmit their nationality, yet [the government] has no inhibitions in selling women as
sex objects," Habib said.
These kinds of images contribute to reducing women to no more than
sex objects to be used by men which can sometimes lead to some men sexually assaulting women, as they believe women have no value, other than to be used for sex.
Women of color, similarly to white women, represent neither competitors nor heroes, appearing as props, bystanders,
sex objects, or victims (9 out of 10 black female characters were victims of violence).
They experienced shame because they suddenly regarded each other first as
sex objects and secondarily as persons.
The choice however has been controversial, with trade unions warning that they do not want uniforms that turn them into
sex objects. A spokesperson for the Transport and General Workers' Union has stated, 'Uniforms should be functional, smart and presentable.
What is so thrilling, not just for the largely female audiences we have but for every member of the audience, is that The Full Monty is the first time in a deliberate, concentrated art form that white men are objectified as
sex objects, and it's the women who come in and scream and cheer and squeal, `Take it off!'"
In 28% of these, women were portrayed as
sex objects. Nearly 80% of the games included aggression or violence as part of the strategy or object.
There is a threatening political message in Hollywood's current obsession with child-women as
sex objects, and in the related trend of pushing older, more seasoned actresses into marginal roles - mostly as asexual, martyr-like mothers.
Two areas were particularly damaging: notions of women as the weaker sex and as
sex objects (Cooper and Lewis, 1993).
Siem's empty female shells cannot be appropriated as
sex objects, as commodity, or as good design.
"Look further into thelanguage of the ordinance,' she continued, pointing to a section that barred presenting women as
sex objects who are hurt or tied-up.
They are molested, raped and treated like
sex objects so that men may satisfy their lust.
Tickled pink It makes a pleasant change that men are being objectified as
sex objects in the soaps these days Emmerdale is certainly getting in on the act.