Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on The Effects of Media on Sexuality. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page paper examines media messages regarding sexuality and talks about whether they are positive or negative. Various examples are provided including images of girls kissing, escapades of Britney Spears and the Dove campaign to promote healthy body images.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: RT13_SA706sex.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
Mouse Club and ending up in the Tabloids with her panties off. These types of role models and images send negative messages to young girls and also add to the
objectification of women. She is just one of many women in media who send these negative messages. Similarly, many hip hop or rap videos send messages of exploitation. Women are
scantily dressed in these videos and the lyrics which accompany the pictures are often misogynist in nature. Anderman (1999) writes: "Prominent female rappers like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown do
little to improve the image, wielding sex and blatant materialism as their stock in trade" (p. N1). Those two examples-Britney and rap videos-are extreme. There are others. For example, Hudepohl
(2007) reports on the trend where girls kiss other girls. Hudepohl (2007) begins an article on the matter with the following observation: "First Madonna kissed Britney. Then Samantha toyed
around with a lesbian lover on Sex and the City. Even Mischa Bartons character on The OC got in on the girl-on-girl action, and last January, two girls lusted after
each other in the mainstream film Imagine Me & You." The article goes on to ask why this type of "bi-curious" behavior is so popular (Hudepohl, 2007). She goes
into some possibilities as to why media is promoting this trend (Hudepohl, 2007). Of course, one might suggest that this trend may have been proliferated by men, and not women.
One only has to remember the Howard Stern show and other similar fare that promote lesbians as a bit of a turn on for men. Yet, the trend that is
fostered by media is not good for impressionable girls, leaving the question as to whether or not homosexuality is born or bred. On the other hand, the fact that little
...