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Media-Induced Sexual Harassment: The Routes from Sexually Objectifying Media to Sexual Harassment

This study discusses the sexualizing women in the media (emphasizing physical beauty and sexual readiness as well as reducing them to decorative and sexual objects) as a contribution to encouraging sexual harassment or sexual violence within a society (Galdi & Guizzo, 2020). 

Portraying women as sexual attractive objects in the media conduce to creating a societal environment that enables and reinforces the existence of sexual harassment, increases victims’ tolerance for harassing behaviors and potentially discourages bystanders from intervening. The sexual objectification also dehumanizes women in a certain way, making them a “prey” for men (Galdi & Guizzo, 2020).  

It is proven that sexual harassment may depend on a level of exposure to media that portrays sexualized women. Simply, if a man sees on a regular basis that a woman can be a mere sexual object, he may then see it that way also in reality. According to Galdi and Guizzo (2020), the authors of this article, “after exposure to movies, magazines, music videos, or TV clips showing sexually objectified women, men tended to manifest greater tolerance for behaviors of unwanted sexual attention, sexual coercion, and sexual harassment than participants without this exposure”.

Galdi, S., & Guizzo, F. (2020). Media-Induced Sexual Harassment: The Routes from Sexually Objectifying Media to Sexual Harassment. Sex Roles, 84(11–12), 645–669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01196-0

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11199-020-01196-0.pdf

Example of a Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU

Picture Reference: https://theimpactnews.com/opinion/2021/04/12/the-oversexualization-of-women-in-media/



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  1. Daniela Hartmanová3. května 2022 v 4:55

    This research should be warning for the society. The more, the women will be portrayed in a sexualised way in media, the more the women will suffer in reality. So, I think, that it is very important, that you highlighted this issue because the society should think about it and try to change it. If we have proves, that media are dangerous for women in this case, because men see them as a "prey," after watching TV series, movies, and etc., we should immediately stop it. Women should not be used as "sexual objects" to make the commercials more attractive, so I hope, that everyone will think of it after reading your blog and the commercial makers will at least reduce this content in media.

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