Sexiness In Society

Sexiness plays a huge role in our culture today, just as much as it did many years ago. In the 60's, Marilyn Monroe was a major sex symbol and Pamela Anderson was seen as a major sex symbol in the late 90's and onwards. In class we talked about how Marilyn Monroe for her time represented how "new" women were becoming successful, but yet she played dumb. That's what drew men to her as well as her beauty and how she used that beauty to date the greatest men. Were as Pamela Anderson represented a time were sex was much more talked about and acted in a way were she kept nothing private, not even her sex life to date celebrities who try to stay famous. These women were made to be so much more than they were by the media, which led other women to think not so highly of themselves because they thought they couldn't compare to these women.

The saying "Sex sells" is true, sex does sell weather we want to believe it or not. Look at Miley Cyrus for instance on the award show previously. Dancing provocative and being "over sexy" everyone started talking, tweeting and writing about it, people hated it but still commented on it. Everyone had something to say. When we watch movies, 9/10 were watching them because who's in them, rather than what the movie about. The advertisements they post on billboards, TV, newspapers, basically all over the media proves this. You see commercials of these victoria secret models and how they look so flawless and we want to be like them. We see how much attention guys pay their images and want to buy the underwear there wearing because we feel it will make us look beautiful or a guy will look at us that way. We see these celebrities and the way the media makes them look like they are the prettiest people on earth. I feel the more sex a celebrity seems to have, the more famous they become, all these woman are portrayed by the media to be so sexy and we all look up to them and fantasize on being just like them. In reality though, they are all human just like we are and under all that make up and clothing, they have issues just like the rest of us.