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Getting Real

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by Melinda Tankard Reist

clothing, sexualised, 8, 11–12, 42–43, 182

  Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (Australia), 26

  Coca-Cola advertisement, 71

  coercion, sexual of girls, 25–26, 60, 62, 121, 123, 134

  commodification, 49, 68, 115, 122

  Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL), 135

  competitiveness between women encouraged, 28

  consent, ethic of, 85

  consumer society, 91–92, 104

  contraception, 95, 132, 137–138, 141, 144

  ‘corporate paedophilia,’ 42, 87, 164

  Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of children in Australia (Rush & La Nauze), 11, 180

  cosmetic surgery, 14–15, 59, 82, 159

  CosmoGirl, 123

  Cosmopolitan, 15

  Australia, 105

  UK, 104

  US, 103

  courage, 172–173, 176

  Courier Mail, 23

  Crawford, Kellie, 5–6

  culture-jamming, 34

  cyberspace see Internet

  Daily Telegraph, 184, 189

  Dangin, Pascal, 185

  David Jones, 184–185

  Davies, Julie-Anne, 139, 189

  Davila, Valida, 114

  death, sexualisation, 27

  Depo Provera, 137

  depression, 75, 81, 89, 139–140, 164

  devaluation of women and girls, 157–158

  diet industry, 82, 171, 173

  dieting, 44, 57, 69, 75, 173, 175

  Doidge, Norman, 131

  Dolly, 21, 132, 183, 187

  Donnelly, Greg, 188

  donor insemination, 136

  Donovan, Basil, 62

  Dove ‘Real Beauty’ campaign, 185

  Dove self-esteem programs, 185

  Durham, M. Gigi, 17, 19–20

  Dworkin, Andrea, 69, 154

  Dylan, Natalie, 94

  EarthLink, 120

  eating disorders, 9, 14, 28, 43–45, 81, 173–174

  eBay, 120

  Economist, 20

  empathy, 24

  empowerment of women, 23, 65, 91, 104, 138, 152, 156, 158

  equality

  egocentrism, 91

  raunch culture debate, 90

  EROS, 189

  Espin-the-bottle, 122

  Evans, Ann, 25

  Ewing, Selena, 30

  exotic dancing, 125

  Extreme Makeover, 9, 59

  Facebook, 122

  Fair and Lovely Foundation, 185

  Faking It (Ewing), 30, 100–101, 105–106

  Faludi, Susan, 149

  Family Planning, 137

  familysafemedia.com, 120

  Famous Weekly, 22

  Farley, Melissa, 31

  fashion industry, 156, 171

  adult styled clothes for girls, 78, 80, 83

  advertising, 101–102, 106

  fashion consciousness, 60, 75

  glossy magazines, 99

  pornified trends, 159

  stripper-chic apparel, 124

  very young models, 83

  fatherhood, 168

  FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), 135

  Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 70–71

  feminism

  anti-objectification, 153, 156

  anti-pornography, 152, 154–155

  anti-prostitution, 152

  body image issue, 69

  continuing inequalities, 2

  criticism of objectification, 68

  empowerment of women, 158

  feminists in 1960s & 1970s, 112, 153, 156, 158

  liberal, 152

  ‘new,’ 23

  new options in 1960s, 1–2

  ‘pro-sex,’ 90

  Second Wave, 154

  sex-positive, 150, 152

  sexual harassment issue, 72

  silencing of feminists, 149

  see also Women’s Liberation Movement

  Feminist Movement, 149, 153, 156

  fertility awareness methods, 138

  Fisher-Price smart toys, 16

  Flickr, 122

  Flood, Michael, 21

  food

  junk, 3

  see also eating disorders

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (USA), 135

  Forscutt, Krystal, 14

  Forum, 150–151

  fragmented consciousness, 46

  Francis, Joe, 121–122

  Fraser, Richard, 27

  free speech, 154

  Freedom Paradox, The (C. Hamilton), 95

  French, Marilyn, 149

  Freud, Sigmund, 77–78

  Friedan, Betty, 70–71

  Fuelzone, 189

  Gale, Julie, 7, 20, 29, 31–32, 181

  games (videogames)

  sexualised violence, 27

  simulated rape, 27, 121

  violence, 120–121

  games, sexualised, 8, 27, 186

  Gardasil, 132–135, 143

  gender identity, 78

  gender roles, 83, 90

  gender stereotypes, 80, 82, 125

  Gill, Rosalind, 115, 156

  Girl.com.au, 16–17

  Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls (Brown), 70

  Girlfriend, 13, 106, 183, 187

  girls

  advocacy for, 34

  age at first sex, 134

  agency, 114–115, 165

  bad girls, 92–95

  exposure to pornography, 21, 23, 63

  exposure to sexualised materials, 8, 41–44, 55–56, 60–61

  false expectations, 158–159

  groomed by boys, 62

  ‘imaginary licentiousness,’ 119

  less support from older relatives, 167–168

  medicalisation, 132–144

  objectification, 7–9, 60–62, 64, 110–116, 123, 131

  psychological development, 47, 57

  resilience, 33

  respect for, 32

  self-hatred, 8–9, 28, 172

  ‘service stations for boys,’ 21

  ‘servicing boys,’ 21, 123, 132

  sexual experiences, 21, 61–63

  sexual knowledge, 22

  silencing of real self, 159

  underwear, 11–12, 42–43, 78, 182

  Girls Gone Mild (Shalit), 22

  Girls Gone Wild (video), 22–23, 121

  girls’ magazines, 8, 22, 43, 169, 183

  ‘girls with balls,’ 90

  Glaser, Bill, 48–49

  gold pills, 92

  ‘Goodbye to all that’ (Morgan), 153

  Google, 120

  Gordon, Amanda, 44–45, 47

  Gough, Deborah, 180

  Grand Theft Auto IV, 121

  Greenfield, Susan, 57

  Greer, Germaine, 22

  Griffin, Susan, 159

  grooming of girls by boys, 63

  Guardian, The, 12, 15, 158–159

  Hamilton, Clive, 21, 30, 185

  Hamilton, Maggie, 30

  Handsley, Elizabeth, 50

  Harper’s Bazaar, 27, 71

  Hefner, Hugh, 11

  Henson, Bill, 18, 30, 109–116

  Herald Sun, The, 184

  Hi-5, 5–6

  High School Musical Two, 16

  Higonnet, Anne, 113

  Hilton, Paris, 92–93

  Holeproof, 182

  homemaking, post-war promotion, 1

  hormone replacement therapy (HRT), 140

  ‘ho’s,’ 61, 122

  How to Make Love like a Porn Star (Jameson), 123

  How to Stay out of the Gynecologist’s Office (LA Feminist Women’s Health Center), 137

  Hubbard, Elbert, 190

  human papillomavirus (HPV), 135, 140, 143

  Hunter, John, 88

  hypersexualisation, 30–31

  If Not Dieting, Then What? (Kausman), 173

  Ikeda, Joanne, 141

  imagination, decline, 3–4, 56

  Implanon, 137

  in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), 136

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p; India Today, 15

  Indigenous children

  child abuse, 155

  sexual assault against, 25

  individualism, 91, 104

  Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, The (Jeffreys), 155

  International Labour Organisation, 18

  International Women’s Day, 27

  Internet

  advice columns, 124

  bullying, 9

  cyber life, 131

  pornography, 120, 122, 125, 131, 158, 165, 187–188

  social networking sites, 122

  intimacy, 78, 88, 93, 95, 120, 125, 138

  IUD (intrauterine device), 137

  Jackie O, 14

  ‘jailbait,’ 113

  Jameson, Jenna, 61, 123

  Ja’mie (Summer Heights High), 93

  Jay Jay’s ‘Little Losers’ T-shirts, 183

  Jeffreys, Sheila, 155

  Jureidini, Jon, 140

  Kausman, Rick, 173

  Keller, Helen, 33

  Kerr, Miranda, 12

  Kids Free 2B Kids (KF2BK), 31, 169, 180–182, 184–186, 188, 190

  Klein, Renate, 31, 150

  Kristof, Nicholas, 20

  La Nauze, Andrea, 11, 29

  Landesman, Peter, 20

  lap dancing, 123–124, 157

  Leigh, Leigh, 23

  lesbianism, faux, 63

  ‘Let’s F*CK’ game, 186

  Levêque, Sandrine, 158

  Levy, Ariel, 23, 119

  liberal capitalism, 92

  libertarianism, 76, 85, 95

  Lilley, Chris, 93

  Lindstrom, Martin, 58

  Ling, Lisa, 20

  ‘Little Children are Sacred’ report (NT government), 155

  ‘Live Young Girls—Tender Teenage Twat,’ 186

  ‘locus of control,’ 90

  Lolita, 19–20, 113

  Lolita (Nabokov), 109, 113

  Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualisation of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It, The (Durham), 17, 19

  Loula (shoe company), 27

  love, 88

  Love Sex Magic (music clip), 13

  Lumby, Catharine, 152

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 92

  Lybrel, 137

  Lynx/Axe advertising, 185

  Machoian, Lisa, 58

  MacKinnon, Catharine, 154

  make-over shows, 9–10

  make-up for young girls, 42

  male gaze, 6

  Malle, Louis, 113

  marketing

  aimed at children, 42

  attacking self-image, 165

  cigarettes, 91

  liberation, 91

  and post-modernism, 95

  as seduction, 65

  sexy clothes to children, 80

  to teenagers, 166

  to tweens, 55, 75

  women as homemakers, 1

  see also advertising

  Marr, David, 110

  Martin, Courtney E., 8–9

  masculinist fantasy, 114, 160

  ‘Masturbation Session,’ 186

  McCain, John, 92

  McDonald, Donald, 189

  McDonalds, 188

  McKee, Alan, 152

  McLellan, Betty, 31

  McMullen, Linda M., 140

  Mean Girls, 93

  media

  images of women, 67–73, 100–106, 119–126

  ‘third parent,’ 166

  see also advertising;

  marketing

  Media Awareness Network, 126

  media literacy, 82, 125

  MediaWatch (USA), 126

  medicalisation of girls, 132–144

  Men Who Control Women’s Health (Scully), 137

  men’s magazines, 5–6

  Menzies Art Brands, 113

  Merck & Co, 135

  Meyer, Stephenie, 10

  Microsoft, 120

  mifepristone, 138

  minipill, 137

  MissBimbo.com, 122

  Mobil, 184, 188

  mobile phones

  distribution of sexualised images, 55, 62, 158

  downloading porn, 26

  ‘sexting,’ 13

  wallpapers, 183

  models

  larger sized, 106

  sexy, 106

  underage, 30

  very young, 83

  monogamy, 93

  Monthly, The, 111

  Moonee Valley Races advertisement, 71

  ‘moral panic,’ 109–112, 114–116, 181

  morality, consent, 85

  Morgan, Robin, 153–154

  morning-after pill, 138

  Moschetti, Carole, 152

  Munster, Anna, 111

  murder, sexualised, 27

  music

  misogynist, 122

  racist, 122

  sexualised, 8, 122

  music video clips, sexualised, 13

  My Beautiful Mommy (Salzhauer), 16

  My Kind of People, 7

  MySpace, 122

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 109

  naked

  art and pornography debate, 18

  girls sending topless photos, 55

  for a good cause, 12

  images of women in offices, 30

  photos distributed, 63

  photos ‘sexted,’ 13, 62

  Namda/Windsor, 189

  narcissism, 91–92, 94

  National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (USA), 13

  National Health and Medical Research Council, 43

  National Youth Cultures of Eating Study, 14

  neoliberal consumerism, 144

  Netflix, 120

  New York Times Magazine, 20

  New Yorker, The, 186

  Newman, Louise, 30

  Nicholson, Alastair, 190

  Ninth Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (2003), 23

  NSW Institute of Psychiatry, 49

  Obama, Barack, 92–93, 125–126

  Obama, Michelle, 93

  objectification

  in advertising, 67–73, 182

  of girls, 7–9, 60–62, 64, 110–116, 123, 131

  of women, 3, 23, 33, 64, 68

  women’s magazines, 102–103

  objectification effects

  body dissatisfaction, 8, 43

  depression, 8

  eating disorders, 8, 43

  impaired cognitive performance, 8

  loss of confidence, 60

  low self esteem, 8, 61, 81–82

  need for analysis, 80

  self-hatred, 9

  self-objectification, 43, 45–46

  sexual assault, 63–64

  sexualisation, 81

  shame, 112–113

  O’Dea, Jennifer, 141

  O’Farrell, Barry, 188

  Office of the Children’s Guardian (NSW), 184

  Office of Women’s Policy (Victoria), 72

  3OH!3, 33

  Orbach, Susie, 142

  Our Bodies Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Collective), 137

  Paediatric and Child Health Division, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 49

  paedophilia

  ‘corporate paedophilia,’ 42, 87, 164

  paedophiles, 83, 87

  paedophilic sexual aesthetic, 111

  paedophilic sexual economy, 113

  parents

  control of children’s media access, 168

  fears for daughters, 163–164

  limited control of influences, 52, 169

  naive about uses of technology, 65

  positive role models, 52

  Paul, Pamela, 6, 21

  peer pressure, 57, 63, 89, 134

  performance culture, 62–64

  periods, 137

  Perkin, Corrie, 110

  Perle, Liz, 21

  ‘Personal is Political,’ 149

  Philadelphia Magazine, 17

  Phillip Morris, 91

  photography, art and pornography debate, 109–
116

  photos

  naked or explicit, distributed, 13, 55, 62

  used as bribery, 63

  pill, contraceptive, 138, 140, 150

  pin-ups, 67–69, 71

  Pink, 71

  Playboy

  bunnies, 32

  products, 10–11, 183

  Playboy magazine, 103

  Playschool, 16

  pole dancing, 123, 157

  Pope, Alexandra, 138

  popular culture, sexualised, 41–42, 100, 102, 156

  Porn Report (McKee, Albury & Lumby), 152

  Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families (Paul), 6

  pornographic film industry, 19

  forced smiles, 24

  pornographic films

  Girls Gone Wild, 22–23, 121

  scripts, 23

  pornography

  children’s use, 125

  downloads, 26, 120

  implicated in child sexual abuse, 155

  Internet, 120, 122, 125, 131, 158, 165, 188

  objectification of women, 64

  pretence of enjoyment, 156–157

  sex-positive views, 94, 150, 152

  use by girls, 63

  see also child pornography

  pornography magazines

  availability, 7, 20, 186–189

  Category 1, 187–188

  Category 2, 189

  classification system, 189

  featuring ‘teens,’ 187–189

  images of girls, 20–21

  refused classification (RC), 189

  as sex education, 21

  withdrawn from stores, 184

  pornography websites

  cartoon characters, 7

  defloration of girls, 7

  offer to Susan Boyle, 6

  ‘Portrayal of Women in Outdoor Advertising’ (Office of Women’s Policy), 72

  post-modernism, 4, 93–95

  post traumatic stress, 63

  pre-schoolers, 55, 60

  precautionary principle, 50

  pregnancy

  prenatal testing, 136

  unintended, 133–134

  ‘Premature Ejaculation’ billboard, 180

  Pretty Baby (Malle), 113–114

  prostaglandin, 138–139

  prostitution

  ‘baby beauties,’ 20

  child, 20, 48, 79

  glamorising by media, 119–126

  marketed to girls, 61

  pimps/pimping, 20, 61, 119, 123, 125–126

  pretence of enjoyment, 157

  as role model, 31

  see also sex industry

  psychological development of girls, 47, 57

  pubic hair, 16

  public policy

  double standard, 73

  outdoor advertising, 71–72

  Pussycat Dolls, 19, 32, 172

  R-rated merchandise, 186

  racism

  media’s role, 69

  music, 122

  radio 2Day FM, 13–14

 

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