Are girls these days more eager to show off their bodies?

[Anonymous]

It looks that a lot of women have posted sexy selfies of themselves online (or someone has, I'm not always sure how that works) and the number of women that do sexy modeling online and in magazines now is staggering. Also some of the recent music videos like Blurred Lines had topless women in them. Why the boom in girls showing off their bodies these days? It's almost like it's becoming more socially acceptable. Give one a smartphone and she's bound to have pics up somewhere. lol

[LauraMarx]

I don't really think it's any more common now than it ever was? I mean... the most popular type of art in western history is the art nude. You think of fine art you think of naked women, you know? There is no more of the woman's participation in that than there is in the Blurred Line's video (moreso, probably). And, p*rnography was started by women. I mean, started *by* women, in France & England - the photographers were also women. Poor women in the Victorian Era/La Belle Epoque organized the production and sale of their own nudes as a way to make money. You know? We have always had this autonomy over our bodies.

I think, though, patriarchy has for a long time seen women as Always Perpetually crashing into moral or sexual depravity, and as such positions men such that they have to rescue us. White women, that is, I think - drawn up in comparison to different women of colour, who are either sex-crazed savages (I am thinking of Polynesians & Africans) or totally unsexed (I am thinking of Arabic women especially) - who the white man must protect his white women from. [shrug] I don't know how to contextualise that properly though

[XRabbitHeartX]

Well we live in a very sexualized world... some girls think that showing their bodies off is the only way to get a man's attention. Society is lacking girls with some class, who strive to have professional careers and who want to achieve more in life than being a easy woman who is proud of being topless in a music video. Any girl can pose naked in a magazine and get a man's attention, but not any girl is willing to work hard and build a successful career and become a scientist, doctor, engineer, philanthropist ... people who actually make a difference in the world. It's sad because those women are usually the very ones who complain that guys don't take them seriously.

[RedRain]

I don't know if they are MORE eager, it's just easier and less disapproved by society than before.

On the one hand, tech made it easier for everyone to show themselves and everyone to have access to your looks.

And, on the other hand, we (men and women) still have the idea that what really counts are looks. And men also take lots of selfies showing off their muscles.

I'm not saying it shouldn't count at all, cause I think it's somewhat inevitable, but then, when you get into a relationship and you break up, the break-up is rarely about looks...

[martyfellow]

too many Holywood movies make people think that it's OK to go around showing off your body, and in advertising it's universal.

And yes, right, so many women think they'll be the next Elle McPherson...

[Anonymous]

Totally depends on the girl; modern technology just makes it seems like it's much more of it than in the past, like violence in movies when there have been just as much violence in the past

[Faircity]

Especially in the US, they use women to advertise everything these days. And so many girls think they are going to be supermodels. It's sad really.

[lumos]

Meh, not really. It's just easier to show your body off nowadays, for both guys and girls. The only difference is that media makes such a huge deal out of it, which makes it a lot more noticeable. Oh no! So and so's nudes leaked! Get the inside scoop! Oh wow! Look at her in that racy outfit! Geez Louise, IS THAT A NIP SLIP?! Etc.

Also, women are more or less taught that their body = their worth. So they show it off to feel valuable. They think it'll attract males, which, in all honesty, kind of works most of the time. But if it attracts the RIGHT kind of men can be discussed.

[MaskofInsanity]

I think the boom stems from the acceptance in society with the oversexualised depiction of women, as well as girls either wanting to show off their bodies and/or attract attention.

[katiesmuff]

No more than they ever were!

[bluexqueen]

It's really sad. The state of the world today. This issue is really miniscule compared to other world issues. But it's an issue nonetheless. we're becoming too much of a look based society. Adults, teens and even toddlers are undergoing cosmetic surgery to 'improve' themselves. And it's sad that people who undergo these surgeries are treated with more kindness than before. It just sickens me how shallow we're becoming. So I think this issue stems from women and teen girls wanting to be beautiful because you won't have love or happiness if you're ugly. You ever heat the song by Janis Ian 'At Seventeen'? "I learned the truth at seventeen that love was meant for beauty queens..."

[yaddayaddayadda02]

Completely. I blame girls gone wild.

[Enideqa]

Perhaps, maybe it's just more of a social norm now.

[Anonymous]

Not anymore than guys are

[Anonymous]

Women have always had sexual urges just as men have, it's just that now they won't get stoned to death for having them and acting upon them...

[Anonymous]

I don't think any more than they used to (reasonably speaking that is…I'm not talking 19th century here). Look at the '20s or '70s…those decades were notably promiscuous at the time.

I think it just seems like girls are more eager because there's social media to notice it.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately yeah

[Anonymous]

cause sex sells. like blurred lines, why topless girls? TO ATTRACT MORE VIEWERS & more viewers means more money. even ads these days it would be about something as simple as deoderant then a half naked girl or guy would be in the advertisement. just like sex before marriage & teen pregnancy has become common.