Influence Of Raunch Culture

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Media promote Raunch Culture Should an Adult store be located on the same street as a school? In the East Side St. Paul, on Arcade Street there is an adult store at the corner of the street. What makes it surprising is there are three schools located in that same street too. There is elementary school, middle school, and high school located on that same street as that adult store. Society takes a huge role in raunch culture, but usually because of media. In the essay, “Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture” by: Ariel Levy, she strongly agrees that media advertising is rising raunch culture. The media is promoting the sexual objectification of women and I believe that’s something the world needs to work on. The reason that promotes sexual objectification are like young girls dressing inappropriately, underage sex, and sexually assaults. Media are influencing young teens especially young girls to dress inappropriately and no one seems to care. Even if parents do care and ask their teens to dress …show more content…

Media introduce too much sexual and inappropriate things into them which is unacceptable. Statistics shows, “In 2005, out of 68% of TV shows that showed steamy sexual content, only 15% discussed risk and responsibility. And it’s not just movies and TV: Music, video games, and the Internet are also filled with sexually explicit, often-degrading messages that can shape kids’ attitudes about sex.” (greatschools.org) Underaage sex is being advertise and and promoted by media through all sorts of ways like TV shows and internet. They advertise and promote underage sex by exposing women. As Greatschool Staffs stated, “60% of female videogame characters are presented in a sexualized fashion” (greatschools.org). This explains that underage sex promotes raunch culture by expressing girls and women through sexual fashion. Women are being exposed sexually through media and everyone seems to like it. Violence could be promoted as will if insecurity of raunch culture not

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