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Society & Lifestyle > Feminism & Women's Rights Understanding sexual objectification and its ramifications: 6 of 7

I don't think anybody can deny that women's bodies are being used, now more than ever, as a tool for marketing and publicising. From adverts encouraging you to "Visit Israel" (with a scantily clad woman reclnig on an Israeli beach) to broadsheet newspapers with page 3 topless models, it is painfully evident thatsex sells. As a grown woman, I find this tiring and demeaning. I don't want to sit next to a man on the train who has his paper open to page 3 and is openly staring at a woman's breasts. I don't want my boyfriend's computer magazines to be sold purely on the basis of a scantily clad...
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