Ojectification Of Women: Nature or Nurture?

Question

Women who adverise themselves on webcams for million of strangers. Or in Maxim magazine. Or join the WWE. . . Displaying themselves on such a regular basis's as just sex toy's. Is this Nature or is this Nurture? After the 60's and take off of Playboy. How much of this kind of stuff, is pre-progammed in women these day's. I'm not trying to sound or be, sexist in anyway!! It's just women historically are more known to do these things over men. Especailly in today's world, where women are just basically volunteering! Setting up their webcam's and what not. Impowerment and sexuality all that cliche talk. Is this just apart of this shallow times we live in? The over-sexed times we live? Are these women just attention starved? Because personally as a guy I'm getting kind of borde of a lot this stuff.
So really how much of this Nature and how much of this Nurture? Was this really the end game of the 60's and all that?

If this is a ignorant question don't hurt me. . . just a curious guy.

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Answer 1

What I have noticed is that girls want guys to like them. And when guys go for the girls who are skanky and flaunt their bodies, girls only see that gross girls are getting the boys. Alot of girls i have known have changed themselves, and made themselves more flirty, they wear more makeup, and shorter skirts, and you know what, they get the boys who like that. If those girls were smart they would realize that the guy they should want to be with, doesn't want that. That is why I think girls act like that.

Answer 2

I get the feeling you think nobody ever had premarital sex, or ever cheated on their spouses, before the 1960s. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sweetie, no offense, but you are very naive about sex and women. PS, Playboy started in 1953-quite a while before the sexual revolution. Why does the idea of women being sexual beings scare you so much?? You say that nobody wants love or commitment anymore but then you place all the blame on WOMEN!!! Believe it or not, a woman can desire love, commitment AND sex at the same time..so can a man.
You are not ignorant, just naive. The "perfect" family and moral values of the 1950s that you espouse society has abandoned, never really existed. And it certainly didn't fall because women found out they can have orgasms, too.

Answer 3

One flaw I'd like to point out. You said we live in over-sexed times.

If this were the case, there'd be a much smaller market for sexual media. People don't crave something because they have too much of it.

As for displaying themselves. So many people believe it's a reduction of status to some object, which is very untrue. Well, I guess to yourself it's whatever you believe it is. On the other hand, it's an act of freedom and display of something you've taken great care of (a beautiful body). Many people are bitter due to jealousy.

Let's say I worked 5 years on an extremely beautiful painting... do you think I'm just going to keep it covered? No way! I spent a lot of time making it beautiful and now it's time for people to admire it. Someone who takes great care of their body could see their body as a masterpiece that they've been working on for years and now it's time to spread the joy that they feel by looking great. Note that their body is only one facet of their existence. In this case, the facet that they've been diligently working on for years so that they can be impressive in such a manner.

A wise man once said, "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Of course, there's a difference between the display of a beautiful naked woman and some raunchy porn.

Answer 4

Mine will be short: My answer self confidence.

Unfortunately women have been led to beleive that the only value they have is in their looks and continuing on as sex objects. How mnay men on here have said women after 45 have no sex appeal?

Answer 5

you always seem so apologetic for asking your questions, you shouldnt be, you wanna know and thats that,

i like how you always ask so many questions in the one AND you actually ask both views while including your own


nature is procreation, sex to survive,

in nature, ironically its the males that do all the showing off, NOT the females
lions have manes, birds of paradise have little dances and mental colours and decorations
peacocks have the tail
ther are even femal fish that are 5 times the size of the male and the male, this tiny little thing, hooks itself into the female and becomes a symbiont to her, while she still goes about her business, he just lays there being dragged along as a permanent source of sperm


males in our species took over, made the rules and lowered the females to the status of them not even being able to vote etc
so women have had to work, whether we wanted to or not, no matter what work we had to put in or do

for some women its choice it 'empower' themselves like that

for some they like to show off what they got(and some of them got it good, boobs are great!)

for some they do it because they feel they have to be attractive, either to themselves or to men or to society in general
women like other women to judge them well too
not just men
if another women says you are gorgeous its just as good as a man saying it
if not better
because we always seek other womens approval
its not all about men
and its certainly not all about sex

sex is just one way to get the power, to get the empowerment, to get the approval
some people get a good job as a working woman, a lawyer or something
they use their skills, the ones they have and the ones they feel proud of
others feel good about themselves and are proud of other things, like their butt, or their eyes

and men do it too
its all equal approval seeking nowadays
look at all the male body builders, male models, male actors etc
they all want the same approval
we all feel vulnerable and we all want to be judged well, liked and seen as attractive

yeap, im a talker
i love my own opinion, tis why i go on and on
and why im on the answers sites!!

Answer 6

some women use their sexuality as a maladjusted way to temporarily boost their self esteem just like men use their ability to attain female conquests as a maladjusted way to temporarily boost their self esteem. The place where i see the effect of nurture here is that when women do it people question their self respect and when men do it, people think they are the coolest people on earth

Answer 7

Personally I believe it is nurtured by a patriarchal society that teaches women to not only accept it when reduced to appearance by men, but to also reduce themselves to appearances in order to appeal to men.

I do NOT see this as 'sexual liberation'

Read _Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture_ by Ariel Levy.

(It's a very valid question btw)

Answer 8

Yes, some women are complicit in their own objectification, but it is not "nature," that causes them to be so, it is our social system that causes them to seek validation, because society tells them that their "body" is all that they are worth.
It's a good question...thanks for stating it respectfully.

Answer 9

Objectification of women is neither nature nor nurture.

It's destiny.

It stems from one of the fundamental differences between men and women: Men derive their self esteem by "doing" and women derive theirs from "being." Many feminists think that this is societal or patriarchal, but in reality, it just is.

Think about that for a moment, and it'll become clear as crystal..

Answer 10

Call me a prude if you will but I personally cannot stand any kind of pornography.

I don't think that women do anything that men don't want them to do.

Ergo, if men didn't want and expect and pay for that kind of behaviour, it wouldn't happen.