Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker, sociologist and anti-porn activist Gail Dines-Levi, showed a graphic slide presentation linking male violence to images of women in the media and proceeded to advocate the censorship of most current sexual images of women--in magazines, films and advertisements...
...exploiting the emotional impact of rape and sexual violence, Dines-Levi urged her audience to pursue tactics that contradict the fundamental values of the Women's Movement by censoring sexual freedom and repressing sexual expression...
...Sexual freedom--the right of women to control their own bodies and create the terms in which their sexuality can be expressed--is basic to the issue of personal freedom in which the Women's Movement is grounded. To assert, as Dines-Levi did, that women are defined solely by their mass-produced and mass-marketed images is to suggest wrongly that women cannot make choices about their own bodies...
...English character to stand out as the cutie pie-Casanova who bunny hops his way around the stage, causing Princess Huncamunca (Jennifer Gibbs) to lustily gnaw away at her sheets. Also in pursuit of the tiny Tom is the Amazonian Queen Glumulca (Margaret Meserve), who effectively vents out her sexual trustrations by devouring whole cabbage heads and stomping around the kingdom in her funky metallicized platform shoes...
Although I dislike in general advertising that appeals to sexual insecurity, I have to applaud the folks at Johnny Walker for the latest of the series, which ran in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It follows the same format as its predecessors--two handsome men discussing the allure of a new sexual prospect. Except in this ad, they're referring to another...