I remember when Vanity Fair Magazine published a controversial article and photo spread of Miley Cyrus, a popular teen celebrity, wearing nothing but a sheet. People responded negatively to the photos and argued the pictures were inappropriate for her age. These people said Vanity Fair Magazine and Miley Cyrus were promoting the exploitation of women. The message sent out to millions of Miley’s fans was that in order to be sexy girls should take off their clothes. Unfortunately, this scenario is the fault of the conditioning the media as a whole has forced upon young women.

You should check out Greg Wilker‘s post about thishere.

The media is affecting young women and girls. The more self-conditioning by the group and society, the more we see exploitation of women. Porn is one form of media that adversely conditions females and forces the message upon society that women are the play toys of men. Porn is intended to cause sexual arousal and does have that effect. Similarly to Miley Cyrus, Riahnna’s most recent album cover displays her without clothes wrapped in barbed-wire, like a suffering victim. Is that supposed to be attractive? Perhaps it’s the fact that she was in an abusive relationship with Chris Brown and is conditioned to believe that she is worthless and the only value she has to offer is sex. Riahnna’s conditioned by Chris Brown to have a low self-esteem. She is reinforcing the message to her fans with the album cover saying women are the trapped objects of men.

The media and porn is affecting women more and more by self-conditioning by the group and society. Self-esteem is shaped by one’s own life experiences and, unfortunately, messages about women in the media creeps into these critical moments in our lives. Unless we do something about the way women are portrayed. I am not arguing for the illumination of porn. I am arguing that women and society start to view women as equals to men. For example, camera angles from below looking up at a woman shows the woman is powerful whereas a shot of the woman from above her head looking up shows her subordinate.

Society will be affected because the role of the women and men will be more masculine overall. The conditioning and acceptance is what will increase a masculine state. Exploitation of women will, in the end, reinforce the message because they will be conditioned to accept that they are less valuable than their male counterparts.