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Getting Real

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by Melinda Tankard Reist

rainbow parties, 62

  Ralph magazine, 5

  rap culture, 123

  rape

  anal, 64

  gang-rape, 121

  oral, 11, 24, 55

  Rat, 153

  ‘raunch culture,’ 69, 80, 82, 90

  ‘Regulating youth access to pornography’ (Flood & Hamilton), 21

  Reid Boyd, Elizabeth, 144

  Reist, Melinda Tankard, 137, 155

  relationships, 160

  representations of women and girls

  ‘frisky, seductive or mysteriously alluring,’ 11

  size zero body, 174

  skinnier, prettier, sexier, 174

  slim and sexy, 160

  stick insect, 106

  thin, beautiful and sexy, 100

  thin, hot, sexy and ‘bad,’ 8

  thin, shy, fragile, 112

  thin and sexy, 131

  thin and weightless, 141

  thinner ideal body, 44

  thinness, 171

  young, thin, white and idle, 67–69

  young looking, 187

  Respectful Relationships programs, 143

  responses to critics, 50–52

  Rolling Stone, 12

  romance, 22, 25

  Rosewarne, Lauren, 30, 67

  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 110

  RU486, 133, 138

  Rudd, Kevin, 110

  Rush, Emma, 11, 29

  Rush, Florence, 114

  Saatchi & Saatchi, 184

  Salzhauer, Michael, 16

  Sandilands, Kyle, 14

  Sarah-Katherine (porn actress), 156

  Sauers, Joan, 21, 134

  Segelov, Colin, 181

  self esteem, 45, 57–58, 76, 81–82, 104–105, 160

  self-harm, 58–59, 164

  self-objectification, 43, 45–46, 61, 102–103

  Senate Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children, 182–183, 186

  Sensuous Child (Hal Wells), 114

  Sensuous Woman, The (Joan Garrity), 114

  7-Eleven, 188

  sex-based stunts in public, 13–14

  Sex Diaries, The (Arndt), 151

  sex education

  omission of relationships, 125

  from pornography, 21, 24, 123, 125

  ‘Sex Education Show v Pornography, The’ (UK Channel 4), 15–16

  Sex in Public (Rosewarne), 72

  Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy (Rosewarne), 30, 67

  sex industry

  career counselling, 125

  children exploited by, 18–20, 155

  EROS, 189

  ‘normalisation,’ 26

  see also prostitution

  Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers (Sauers), 21, 26

  sex offenders, 48–49, 63–64, 83

  ‘sex-positivism,’ 93–95

  sex tourists, 20

  sexism, 115

  community silence, 73

  Left politics, 153–154

  media’s role, 69–71, 73

  music, 122

  ‘sexting,’ 13

  sexual abuse after effects, 164

  sexual assault

  filming for distribution, 24–25, 64

  girls’ experiences, 26

  against Indigenous girls, 25

  objectification by offenders, 63–64

  at primary school, 55

  statistics, 25

  victims, 62–3

  young men’s attitudes, 26

  sexual freedom, 84–96

  sexual gratification, 6, 76, 79, 86, 88

  sexual harassment, 26

  role of advertising, 67, 72–73

  sexual health, 132–144

  sexual imagery, 8, 13, 23, 56, 76, 78, 80, 181

  sexual revolution (1960s), 85, 94–95, 150–153, 156

  individual rights, 91

  sexual self-restraint, 89–90, 93

  sexualisation

  child abuse, 47–49

  of children, 41–52, 116

  evidence of harm, 42–49

  of girls, passim

  harm caused, 157–158

  industry, 6

  premature, 41–43, 50–52, 77, 94, 101

  psychological effects, 47, 75–84

  sexualised culture, 28, 30, 52, 161, 179

  sexualised images, 48–49, 61–62, 73, 76, 79–81, 87, 156, 158–159, 179–181

  sexualised society, 85, 93, 159

  sexuality

  anal sex, 21, 63, 123

  casual sex, 86–89, 123

  children’s ignorance, 60

  consent, 87–88

  faux lesbianism, 63

  lack of pleasure, 21–23

  masturbation, 13–14, 19

  ‘new abstinence,’ 62

  non-relational, 123

  not wanting sex, 104

  oral sex, 22–24, 62–23, 119–120, 132

  orgasm, 22

  performance model, 11, 62–63, 165

  public, seen as maturity, 6

  sex as metaphysical union, 86, 88, 95

  threesomes, 63

  sexy

  child models posing as, 184

  clothes for children, 80

  image saturation, 100

  pressure to be, 8–9, 12, 27–28, 58, 61, 102, 106, 115, 124, 131, 159–160

  role models for prepubertal girls, 81

  slogans on children’s wear, 11

  Shalit, Wendy, 22–23

  Shell-Coles Express, 184, 188

  ‘sickness industry,’ 134

  sizeism, media’s role, 69

  Skinner, Rachel, 134

  Skins She sportswear, 28

  Slave Girls of India (Ling), 20

  slavery, child, 19–20

  Smiggle, 184

  Smith, Linnea, 122, 126

  Snoop Dogg, 61

  social death, 9

  social script, 131

  Spears, Britney, 177

  spiritual death, 164

  spray tan, 10

  SSRI (selective seratonin reuptake inhibitor), 133, 139–140

  State of the World’s Children - 2006 (UNICEF), 19

  Stickam, 122

  Stoppard, Janet, 140

  stripping, 125

  subjectification, 156

  suicide

  after breast implants, 59

  after sexual abuse, 164

  antidepressants, 140

  Summer Heights High, 93

  Sun (UK), 10

  Sunday Age, The, 180

  Sunday Mail, 14

  surrogacy, 136

  Swan, The, 59

  Sydney Morning Herald, 27, 111

  Target, 182

  Taylor, Kate, 12–13

  teachers as positive influences, 52

  technologies, new see Internet;

  mobile

  phones;

  videos

  Teen Form, 61

  teenage

  market, 55

  products marketed to young girls, 42

  television

  effects on development, 168

  make-over shows, 9–10

  Ten Years Younger in Ten Days, 9–10

  TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration), 135, 182

  The Pill. Are You Sure It’s for You? (Bennett & Pope), 138

  Timberlake, Justin, 13

  ‘Tit-F*cking Session,’ 186

  Today Tonight, 180

  torture, 18

  Total Girl, 44

  trafficking, 48, 79

  ‘Triple X Vouchers,’ 186

  Tucci, Joe, 60

  tweens

  market, 55, 75

  on the prowl, 11

  Twenge, Jean, 90

  Twilight (Meyer), 10

  underwear, sexualised for girls, 11–12, 42–43, 182

  UNICEF, 19

  Unilever, 185

  United Petroleum, 188

  values for girls, 33–34, 81

  Vargaw, Alberto, 69

  Vassarette underwear brand, 11–12

>   videos

  music clips, 13

  see also games (videogames)

  violence

  by boys, 23, 26

  by men, 26

  in pornography, 20, 27

  in sex industry, 19

  see also rape;

  sexual assault

  Virginia Slims, 91

  Voodoo Doll pencil case, 184

  Walsh, Jennifer, 47

  War Against Women, The (French), 149

  Washington Post, 11

  Watt, David, 189

  Westwood, Mathew, 110

  ‘What’s New’ chain, 184, 186

  White Ribbon Foundation, 25

  Whole Woman, The (Greer), 22

  Wiggles, 5, 184, 186

  Wilber, Ken, 91

  Williamson, Sonny Boy, 113

  women

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

  expectations, 1–2

  infantilised in pornography, 32

  negative images, 3

  newly defined by feminism, 2

  as nonentities, 69

  objectification, 3, 23, 33, 68

  smoking, 91

  ‘unattractive,’ 115

  Women’s Forum Australia, 27, 99, 104

  women’s health, 136–137

  women’s liberation, 91

  Women’s Liberation Movement, 144

  women’s magazines, 99–106

  Wong, Tobias, 92

  World Health Organization, 79

  Yahoo!, 120, 122

  Young Media Australia, 169, 180

  young men’s attitudes to sexual assault, 25–26

  YouTube

  Britain’s Got Talent, 6

  filming of sexual assaults, 24

  My Kind of People, 7

  Zoloft, 139

 

 

 


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