Are Women Sexually Objectified

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This report will investigate if and how women are being sexually objectified by the media in today’s society. The term sexual objectification was coined in the 1970s and still used in today; to be sexually objectified is to be seen and treated like a sex object by one or more people . The person (usually a woman) being objectified is being acted upon by (usually) a male . Self-objectification is when somebody objectifies themselves (Views their own body as an object), this can be the cause to various mental health issues .
Media has played a large part of the sexual objectification of women; many forms of media may not know that they are doing so because society has become such large consumers of it and therefore becoming numb to its impacts

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