“I Might Get Your Heart Racing in My Skin-Tight Jeans”: Sexualization on Music Entertainment Television

Vandenbosch, Laura; Vervloessem, Dorien; Eggermont, Steven

doi:10.1080/10510974.2012.755640

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“…45,47 However, the literature has also indicated that adolescents identify with characters from other popular television genres. 48 As popular genres, such as music videos and soap operas, also frequently portray sexual characters, 24,49 future research may explore whether similar cyclical processes between watching these genres and a sexual online self-presentation can be found.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…1015-1016 Content analyses have shown that both reality television and IP regularly portray ideal bodies and emphasize the sexual appeal of the characters. e.g., [20][21][22][23][24] Because of the importance of sexual attractiveness in mass media, frequent consumers of these media may be more inclined to present themselves also in a sexual way. Social cognitive theory 25 posits that exposure to environmental incentives (e.g., observing the sexual behavior of attractive models in media content) may stimulate individuals to behave accordingly (e.g., engage in sexual behavior that is similar to the behavior of the observed models).…”

Section: Sexual Content Mass and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Relationship Between Sexual Content on Mass Media and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study

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Oosten

Peter

2015

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The goal of study was to investigate whether exposure to sexual reality television content and Internet pornography is related to sexual self-presentation on social media. Based on a twowave panel survey among 1,765 adolescents aged 13-17, we found that watching sexual reality television content stimulated adolescents to produce and distribute sexual images of themselves on social media. In turn, sexual self-presentation on social media led adolescents to watch sexual reality television content more frequently. These relationships were similar among boys and girls. No reciprocal relationship between exposure to Internet pornography and boys' and girls' sexual self-presentation on social media was found. The results suggest that sexual content in mainstream mass media may affect adolescents' sexually oriented behavior on social media and vice versa. Moreover, adolescents seem to differentiate between types of sexual content (i.e., mainstream versus more explicit sexual content) when incorporating sexual media content in their sexual behavior online.

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Section: Sexual Content Mass and Social Mediamentioning

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The Relationship Between Sexual Content on Mass Media and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study

Vandenbosch

Oosten

Peter

2015

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…However, literature on the occurrence of characters with low body fat in European television and print media (e.g., Vandenbosch, Vervloessem, & Eggermont, 2013;Yan & Bissell, 2014) suggests a similar trend of overrepresenting underweight individuals. Moreover, a study that investigated cover models of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, and Vogue, in 11 countries demonstrated that European cover models are depicted as thin more frequently than North American and Asian models (Yan & Bissell, 2014).…”

Section: The Components Of the Ideal Appearance In Popular Media Contentmentioning

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Media Representation: Health and Body Images

Vandenbosch

2017

The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects

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The current chapter presents a review of the portrayal of appearance ideals in popular entertainment media. It examines the literature on the components of the ideal and on the nature of portrayals of appearance standards in popular media. First, study findings on the characteristics of appearance ideals presented in the media demonstrate that popular media frequently glamorize curvaceously thin female and mesomorphic male characters with flawless faces and a suntanned white or lighter black skin tone. Second, younger characters are more likely to adhere to media standards of appearance than older characters. Moreover, the ideal appearance is considered to be malleable. Characters with an ideal appearance also outperform characters that deviate from the ideal at a sexual, social, and professional level. Lastly, appearance standards in the media are inherently related to stereotypes of gender and ethnicity. Several recommendations for future research are made.

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“…In applying content analysis to various media (music videos, clothing on retail websites, girls' magazines, video game characters), other researchers have operationally defined SO in the media in part as the extent to which women's bodies are exposed to the gaze of others (Goodin et al, 2011;Graff et al, 2013;Vandenbosch et al, 2013). Since women's (and girls') revealing clothing exposes their bodies to the gaze of others, revealing clothing is implicated in SO and sexualization.…”

Section: Revealing Dress and Sexualization In The Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Graff et al (2013) studied depictions of girls in girls' magazines and used similar categories as Goodin et al; they coded characteristics of girls' appearance as sexualized if it revealed, emphasized, or enhanced sexualized body parts. In a content analysis of Belgian music videos, Vandenbosch et al (2013) coded sexualization as manifest in part by whether the character wore clothing that focused on sexual body parts or had sexually suggestive slogans. In a study of video game characters, Miller and Summers (2007) also used revealing dress in their coding system; they relied on skin exposure to assess the revealing nature of clothing.…”

Section: Revealing Dress and Sexualization In The Mediamentioning

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Women’s revealing Halloween costumes: other-objectification and sexualization

2016

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Women are depicted in revealing dress in the media and the depictions have costs such as objectification. Objectification theory explains that women in Westernized cultures are looked at, evaluated, and potentially objectified by others. Accordingly, objectifying gaze (by others) evokes self-objectification which has effects such as habitual body and appearance monitoring. According to the theory being objectified by others precedes self-objectification, which suggests that objectification by others could be more prevalent than self-objectification and potentially just as harmful. Researchers have found that self-objectification and other-objectification can be induced by revealing dress manipulations that vary in tightness or body coverage. We studied Halloween costumes as a site for objectification of others. In Study 1, 124 pairs of men’s and women’s Halloween costumes were content analyzed. Women’s costumes were significantly more revealing than men’s in tightness and body coverage. Since sexual objectification in the media is assessed by the presence of revealing dress in media depictions, we reasoned that women’s revealing Halloween costumes could be sexually objectifying. In Study 2, 295 participants rated women wearing revealing or non-revealing costumes in an online experiment. Women wearing revealing costumes were sexually objectified by participants. Although men rated costumed women higher on the sexually objectifying traits than women, both men and women objectified the costumed women in the revealing dress condition. Dress researchers may wish to apply objectification theory to re-interpret and explain early research on revealing dress.

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“I Might Get Your Heart Racing in My Skin-Tight Jeans”: Sexualization on Music Entertainment Television

Cited by 37 publications

References 39 publications

The Relationship Between Sexual Content on Mass Media and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study

The Relationship Between Sexual Content on Mass Media and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study

Media Representation: Health and Body Images

Women’s revealing Halloween costumes: other-objectification and sexualization

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