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Positive Portrayal or Objectification?

  Female sexuality in popular culture is usually indicated by the degree to which the female in question is an object of another’s desire, not a subject. Women who express sexual desire must be hot (read: skinny, young, buxom) or their sexuality is construed as too repulsive and vulgar to conform to social norms. Men, [...]