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Who else is sick of seeing an abundancy of female nudity plastered on everything?

Asked by Myuzikalsoul (598points) October 16th, 2010

I’m female, obviously, because if I were male, or maybe a lesbian I probably wouldn’t have this perspective. I understand that women are beautiful, and beauty is what the world focuses on. It’s just that it seems as though I can’t do ANYTHING…watch a movie, peruse the internet, go anywhere, anything, without being bombarded with more and more revealing images of nude women, and teenagers! I’m not an old lady, I’m rather young. I’m not a prude by any means. I just wish that these varying industries that push these images would level the playing field a little. Why not push some male sexuality out there? It makes me feel more and more like an object, and something that needs to be perfected, in order to be accepted. And I am not unattractive…this is not necessarily jealousy. (Although there always is that little twinge of “I wish I could be that fit, or skinny, or whatever). It just seems that when people look at me, they automatically look at my body parts instead of into my eyes, and this whole world seems to be focused on nothing but gorgeous woman after gorgeous woman, so much that it just seems completely redundant. Maybe I’m just getting older now, and my values are evolving, so I’m a little more sensitive to it. Does anybody else feel this way?

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bob_'s avatar

I’m cool.

MissAnthrope's avatar

The gratuitous sexing-up of advertisements gets an eye-roll from me, for sure. However, I can’t say that I foresee myself getting tired of looking at attractive women in various stages of undress. :D

ratboy's avatar

No. What the world needs now is more female nudity in every aspect of human activity.

muppetish's avatar

Context changes everything, especially with advertisements. For the most part, nudity (male or female) does not bother me at all.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

I appreciate the various forms of the human body, male or female, perfect or flawed. I agree that there are times where nudity is unnecessarily used in the media, television shows and movies today, but that is a personal opinion. The wonderful thing about television, the internet and periodicals is that we each control what we want to see.

HungryGuy's avatar

IMO, there’s not enough female nudity plastered on everything :-p

YARNLADY's avatar

I guess I’ve gotten to where I don’t even see it anymore.

john65pennington's avatar

I understand where you are coming from. the bottomline is this: nudity sells.

chyna's avatar

There needs to be more male nudity.

Cruiser's avatar

Let’s compromise and simply have more nudity across the board!!

chyna's avatar

@Cruiser That would be a win/win situation.

tranquilsea's avatar

The only problem I have with it is how unrealistic it is. Too many girls think that what they see plastered everywhere is what they are supposed to look like. They don’t understand just how Photoshopped the images are.

wundayatta's avatar

To the question you have on the surface—not me. In fact, I’m wondering where this nudity you are talking about is. I’d love to see it. Perhaps it is a euphemism for lots of skin.

Your other complaint, though—people looking at your body parts instead of at you—that seems to be what is really bothering you. Perhaps you think that all the images of women are responsible for people (men?) looking at your breasts instead of your eyes.

That’s a whole other issue. It’s complex. I don’t think it means what women think it means. I think that you’ve got the cause and effect mixed up. The reason why there is so much skin out there is because men like to see it. Men like to see it because that’s how we assess the biological fitness of a woman, whether we are conscious of this or not.

Men that have been “civilized” by women don’t do this. We know that we’re better off if a woman likes us before we try to seduce her. At least, that’s the way the smart women are. If you can stare at a woman’s boobs and give her a drink and tell her to come home with you, it’s hard to respect the judgment of the woman… or the man.

But even some civilized men want to look at the boobs. Depending on the potential for a relationship, we might take a quick peek and then look in her eyes. If there’s no potential, then who cares. Why not stare at what is interesting and fantasize about what will never happen?

But you can use the boob-looking as a screening filter. If that’s what they look at, then clearly they aren’t very civilized and they may not even have the brains to be worth talking to. If they look in your eyes, then that’s someone worth spending time with. I mean, what do you care if someone stares at your body parts? Yeah, they might be assessing you like a piece of meat, but so what? They’re jerks and idiots and you know instantly that you don’t need to waste time on them. Move on. You know you’re not a piece of meat. Right?

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@Cruiser Agreed. Now send me a pic. :P

rooeytoo's avatar

@Myuzikalsoul – I know exactly what you mean. It annoys me to no end that they have naked women draping themselves over cars at car shows instead of driving them around a track. At sporting events there are semi naked women dancing seductively and cheering for the boys instead of playing the game. This is what little girls are exposed to from the first moment of awareness. It is no wonder they think their whole life should revolve around catching a man, holding onto a man, pleasing a man. And at the same time little boys are getting the idea that this is what women are for. It makes it so difficult for a woman to be taken seriously in any other arena. For example men at Hillary Clinton political rallies shouting go home and iron Bill’s shirts. I don’t see it changing until women stop playing these roles, the women who are getting paid to pose naked should have more self respect. But that is like solving the problem of welfare when there are so few clothed and succesful role models to see compared to the naked ones in mags and on the tv, it is hard to initiate change.

josie's avatar

I am with @Cruiser Lets ALL get naked and get it over with.

incendiary_dan's avatar

Don’t assume that being male would change your opinion. I’m male and happen to whole-heartedly agree. Nudity has it’s place, but using it to sell, well, everything is ridiculous.

Then again, I’m specifically (pro-)feminist, so there ya go.

Plucky's avatar

@Myuzikalsoul and @rooeytoo…I agree with you.

Sad thing is ..nudity sells.
Although, I’m less likely to buy something if they use that type of tactic. In saying that though…I also find that it depends on the type of nudity and how it’s portrayed. Some ads are very respectful of the human form. Others are very distasteful and “sleazy”. But then, it depends on a person’s perception of what is sleazy and what is respectful ..which highly varies amongst a diverse species such as ourselves.

I’m quite sure not all men that are attracted to women are ok with the nudity ads.
I also don’t think it means all these women have little self respect though. Some women do and some don’t, just like anyone else.

It would be different if we lived in a society where clothing was optional.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Nope. I am a fan of nudity. I do wish there was more male nudity. I do have issues with the amount of photoshopping, and the forbidding us to see any woman over a size 4, and would love to see more realistic nudity, but the sheer amount of it I have no problem with. I do have issues with channels like HBO and Showtime insisting on a certain amount of sex scenes that then forces characters to do people and things that they wouldn’t do, distracting from a believable character and flowing plot.

bob_'s avatar

@papayalily I’d really like “The L Word”, if it weren’t for all the gratuitous… plot.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@bob_ I’d really like The L Word if it wasn’t for the portrayal of all lesbians as immoral, manipulative harpies who can’t have anything but toxic and abusive relationships.

bob_'s avatar

@papayalily Huh, they do that? See, everything is better if you don’t pay attention to the plot.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@MissAnthrope I had to actually burn the DVDs after watching it. And by burn, I don’t mean copy onto my computer and make copies of, but light on fire. I couldn’t stand that the show was heralded as this triumph for the lesbian community, because to me it was a slap in the face and the realization of what the rest of the world thought of me.

MissAnthrope's avatar

@papayalily – I completely agree. I hate the producers with a burning rage.. don’t even get me started. Bitches!

seazen's avatar

What @bob_ and @ratboy said. Nuf said.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. That is the rub, isn’t it? The way sex is treated in America is so crazy it is as if Uncle Sam was a man before the mirror who promptly forgets what he looks like the moment he turns from it. Sex is used to sell many things in which more than not could easily be sold without sex at all. But what would the fun be in that?

Americans love sex, that is so long as it is treated in innuendo, suggestion, and double speak. People want to see it everywhere because people are always thinking of it. The 38yr old exec is thinking about it he only does it different then the 14yr old horn dog. Using sex to sell you that burger, those shades, that breath mint, to use those items you will get ”lucky”, get some sex. People want to see sexy near naked people (mostly women) attached to things because it make one wonder and think about sex, that is OK so long as there is something left to the imagination. To have sex depicted graphically with all the up front and personal nothing left to the imagination contact is just sleazy, dirty, and nasty. Yet porn nearly created the Internet as we know it, and still remains a big part of the Web and generates billions of dollars. Good thing you can curse it at the water cooler at work but yet sneak it on your Blackberry on the commute train home or on your PC before dinner.

Then there is the whole all women are worthy, women with “shape” is the new beauty, or “real” women as they should be called. That since 60% of Americans are overweight to obese all these slinky, slender women and ab ripped men should be out of a job in favor if Ms apple shape and Mr. beer gut. How would you truly sell that aftershave to a man if he didn’t think using it will make him appear to be some GQ hunk with chiseled muscle? If he thought that aftershave will make him look no better than some balding guy with a beer gut what is so special about that? That is not the guy who gets “lucky” and gets sex from the hottie. The lie about “fake” runway ano women is just that, a lie, more want to be like her than will admit because maybe they can’t and to admit that she can cell sand to Arabs because of her long sexy legs or pouting rack will mean she is some how superior than Ms. Apple shaped darling.

Many women push the lie down the street, where as many women say they don’t want to be a “body part” they want men to speak to their face and look in their eyes and not at their chest, tons of women do just that. They spend boo coo bucks to “pump up the twins”, even women who have a decent size before want bigger because they were not “big enough”. They want a larger bosom for the very purpose of catching a mans gaze. They will go under the knife for this larger rack that will supposing cause them more back pain, that will giggle in the way when they are doing housework, they will endure these negatives to get men to notice them because their front will enter the room 2min. before they come through the door. So much for “liking who you are and the way you are made”, I guess that is just for fat women who can’t afford to have some “work” done to get the body they desire.

There are half naked skin flashing people selling us everything because when the fat hits the skillet it alludes to sex and you want something that will get you to sex and seeing a fat woman on the car don’t say sex, and if you felt the car was not going to get you closer to sex but just get you an average Ms apple shaped darling you more than likely pass on the car unless it had something so special under the hood you could not pass it up.

Vincent_Lloyd's avatar

okay I’m only a kid but I understand what you mean. I’m not that fond of it. I know most do look at appearances by body structure and big breasts or what ever…But I don’t see why they wouldn’t look in the eyes of the woman. I understand, it’s just the way people are. I can think though that it won’t change for awhile…..but what can the world do? People just suck….I’m the type of guy that doesn’t look at the breast or butt or body structure first. I usually try and get to know her first then pursue the body I guess….but that does make me curious also….

ZEPHYRA's avatar

While I admit that there is nothing more beautiful than a great female body and yes, I admire beauty, I totally agree with you. So much uncovering has left nothing to the imagination. Nudity has become repulsive. I see your point. I am all for freedom in everything and I agree with ” if you’ve got it flaunt it”, but this has become revolting. It is as if you have your favorite food constantly shoved down your throat on a daily basis in huge quantities, won’t you start to hate it?

RedPowerLady's avatar

If we have more nudity lets make it realistic nudity. Stop the airbrushing. Show real women’s bodies.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@RedPowerLady And women who have eaten a Snickers bar within the past 10 years.

OpryLeigh's avatar

I’m not bothered by it. Sex sells and it always will. Does this make it right? Personally I don’t think it has anything to do with right or wrong, providing the people involved are consenting adults. I also think that trends change regularly and what is considered sexy now, wasn’t necessarily the “ideal” in years gone by. Because of this, I don’t worry about what the person in the advert looks like and whether or not I fit that ideal because the human race is fickle and we will soon change our minds about what perfection is.

downtide's avatar

I don’t object to the female nudity in general but I’d like to see an equal amount of male nudity as well, and I’d also agree with @RedPowerLady – I’d like to see more people with real bodies, not super-skinny ones. A size 14 woman is far more attractive to me than a size 4.

ucme's avatar

Yeah, suprisingly enough i’m kind of in favour of keeping it as it is. Hello Boys!

Plucky's avatar

I agree with @ZEPHYRA and @RedPowerLady…I have absolutely no desire for the fake air brushed super skinny people we see everywhere. Nothing more beautiful and attractive than a real sensual person ..now that’s sexy ;)

deni's avatar

It really doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty excessive nowaday. When I was in my mid teens, it really bothered me to look at ads of really thin women with perfect skin hair and clothes. I would feel bad about myself. Then I realized that if I photoshopped any photo of myself and/or starved myself I would look exactly the same! And THEN I realized that’s no way to live, wishing you looked like something that doesn’t even exist. Now I don’t care. I just feel bad for people who think that’s real.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I agree wholeheartedly with @RedPowerLady . If there are to be nekked people on my TV, I want to see REAL women who have saggy bottoms and flabby tummies after having kids. I am so sick of seeing these beautiful women with bodacious bodies who are all trim and tucked and plastic’ed out, so they’re walking around with their two children and still have the body of an eighteen year old! It’s just not realistic!

I had a pretty rockin body until I had kids. I was super slim with slightly curvy hips, a tight butt and perfectly perky and firm C cup breasts. Now I’m 25 lbs overweight with hips that shoved 2 kids out, a droopy butt and saggy DD breasts that nursed 2 babies. THAT’S the kind of woman people need to see- someone REAL.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@WillWorkForChocolate I am so sick of seeing these beautiful women with bodacious bodies who are all trim and tucked and plastic’ed out, so they’re walking around with their two children and still have the body of an eighteen year old! It’s just not realistic! Maybe not so much in the US but more common in Europe.

anartist's avatar

Don’t mind seeing good looking guys tight buns plastered about . . .

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