Sexiness Sells

Sexiness Sells

    

  I take for granted that I'm an educated individual with years of wisdom and can see through the scandalous images on the covers of these magazines and see the marketing scheme to get the customer to buy.  The celebrities we see on TV are the ones we want to see on the covers. Reality TV show celebs like Snooki and the girls from MTV's 16 and pregnant are a mainstay on the racks of the checkout line.  We also can't forget about our favorite royal family, Prince William and Kate, not that we care so much about Prince William as we do Kate, Oh by the way its official she is pregnant.  Who is the audience here? Teenage and 20 something females? Probably, but I think we all get drawn into it one way or another whether it be consciously or unconsciously, you can't help to look at the images. Yes, magazines are geared to us guys out there, just look at the above cover of Maxim.  Doesn't Avril look so appealing showing her stomach with eye catching words around her like Sex, Balls, SEXIEST BAD GIRL, and SUPER CARS?

     So what is the message we are sending out to our young people? Dress half naked, showing as much as you can without being charged with indecent exposure.  Some sociologists argue that teens are more inclined to become sexually active because of the overwhelming number of sexual images in the media. Aside from school sex-education programs, the media is teenagers' leading source of information about sex. The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that exposure to sexually explicit media images may lead to early sexual activity. One study revealed that a typical American teenager will view 14,000 references to sex in television and movies each year. Fewer than 200 of these references will involve topics such as abstinence, birth control, or STDs.  Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. ------Allen Ginsberg