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According to a study that Oyesomi and Salawu did, women who show off their body have no respect for themselves, but they’re comfortable in their skin, meaning they’ll show off as much as they want. It shows or sends the message to viewers that no matter the size or shape you are, if you’re comfortable with your body, there’s nothing wrong with showing off what you got.

[materials added] EFFECTS OF SEXUALIZATION

Younger adults who had a greater exposure to rap videos are two times more likely to have multiple sexual partners and over 1.5 times more likely to have contributed a disease. Those who watch violent and sexist music videos affects young people’s sexual and violent behaviors and attitudes towards their own gender sex roles as well as in intimate relationships with their partners. The main thing that everyone can obviously see is that in any media where women are sexualized is saying that women are “sex objects”

Oyesomi, Kehinde, and Abiodun Salawu. “Influence of Sexualisation of Women in Music Videos on the Body Image of Nigerian Female Youths.” Gender & Behaviour, vol. 16, no. 3, Dec. 2018, pp. 12059–12072. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=134055095&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

[material added] SEXUALIZATION

There are four different types of sexualization: favoring sexual self-objectification, relating sexual desirability to self-esteem, equating physical attractiveness with being sexy, and lastly contextualizing sexual boundaries. The first type of sexualization, favoring sexual subjectification, is when a women treats herself as an sexual object, but the treatment is chosen by the woman. The second type of sexualitzation, equating physical attractiveness with being sexy, is that being physically attractive is the equivalent to looking sexy but they are not physically atrractive unless they look sexy. If they’re not physically attractive, they need to look sexy to appear physically attractive. The third type of sexualization, relating sexual desirability to self-esteem, is being sexually desirable to be satisfied. For example, “she may base her self-esteem on other contingencies besides beings sexually desirable, such as others’ approval, but her self-esteem is also dependent on sexual desirability” (Choi & DeLong, 1365). And lastly, the fourth type of sexualization, contextualizing sexual boundary, is considered because it violates sexuality social norms. Either one of these types of sexualization will have a positive or a negative affect on the viewer.

Choi, Dooyoung, and Marilyn DeLong. “Defining Female Self Sexualization for the Twenty-First Century.” Sexuality & Culture, vol. 23, no. 4, Dec. 2019, pp. 1350–1371. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12119-019-09617-3.