A new research paper from the University of Kent School of Psychology has found that sexual objectification increases when men are sexually aroused, challenging common Western beliefs that this ...

To sexually objectify a woman is to focus on her body in terms of how it can provide sexual pleasure rather than viewing her as a complete human being with thoughts and feelings. While objectification ...

Understanding the psychology behind objectification might help us fight back. Source: pixabay, no attribution required Let's talk about objectification. At any given moment, according to a recent ...

And then also, there's Magic Mike, the male stripper movie we've been looking forward to immensely. The times, they are sexy! Especially compared to the old days when we liked our Olympic athletes ...

Women in the media have often been trivialised by being called distasteful names and referred to as a cheez (thing). While some may shrug off such acts as harmless, they connote a deeper, stinging ...

When feminists decry the objectification of women, most people immediately think of the images that saturate our magazines, movies, adverts and the Internet, of women in varying stages of undress, ...

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The link between the above-discussed forms of objectification is cyclical, just as the fuel which runs the industries of sex trafficking and pornography, so does it fuel other areas of culture which ...