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Why do young women choose to pose nude for Playboy?
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I find Playboy highly offensive because it objectifies women. I don't understand why some women choose to pose for the magazine. Why do some women do this?
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I am going to say this in an update and then I am not going to look at this question again. So if you choose to respond just know that your response is falling on deaf ears. Why are you guys so admittedly defending pornography?
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(this is a rhetorical question)? Would you want your daughter to be in pornography? Whether some women want to admit it or not pornography affects women. All women. Look around you. When you go to a club do the girls there often look like porn stars?
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Fake breast, nails, hair, large amounts of make up, provocative clothing. Who do you think they are modeling themselves after? Who do you think they are trying to emulate? They emulate porn stars.
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All women want attention but porn stars are teaching us that you can get attention easier with you looks then your brain. As pornography creeps into main stream culture, as it has been for several years now, who do you think it will affect the most?
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Young girls are very impressionable. I have seen a large portion of my generation fall prey to this. Girls have already started to admire women like Jenna Jameson and Pamela Anderson instead of great women like Harper Lee and Susan B Anthony.
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If women continue to emulate porn stars, and this trend continues through younger generations, do you think women will ever be considered equal to men? No.
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Men also growing up in this generation will think of women more as objects of their sexual gratification then their equals. This is my concern.
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This was the reason I asked this question, to try to understand the opposite side of the argument. Despite all of us not sharing the same opinion I thank you for your answers. "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual." - GS
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“There can be no equality in porn, no female equivalent, no turning of the tables in the name of bawdy fun. Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women… Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.” -SB
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“And that’s all I have to say about that” – Forrest Gump
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What Girls & Guys Said
21 23low morals/ low money/attention
retarded question you should ask yourself why you don't do it, you'll have the answer then
has to be money
$$$$ and to make it in Hollywood, modeling, or into the mansion probably. It can also be art!
I was offered a million dollars to be the "cover girl" for a well-known men's magazine. I did a swimsuit issue and that is what led to the offer to pose nude.
It was flattering, and I admit that I was tempted. I thought about it, but my brother said, "Jennie, I think you need to rethink that.’ I asked why, and he said, ‘If a little girl goes to the grocery store and sees that magazine and says ‘Daddy, there’s Jennie. Can I get that magazine?’ And then the dad has to say, ‘No, that’s not appropriate.’ How would that make you feel?’"
That hit me like a ton of bricks, and I was like forget it, there’s no way. I accept being a role model and I love the fact that I have the opportunity to be the best role model I can be for the youth of today and tomorrow.
I think women should always find a way to do something that will benefit the society rather than just showing off their bodies in an indecent way. The same thing holds good for men too
ye its horrible, spesh when you hang about with guys a lot (look at her boobs etc.).
well they look fake to me. I think girls mainly do it not for money but to show off their bodies?
and porn is everywhere, I read music mags and stuff it advertised at the back...do the not think that girls might read it,god.
Funny you brought up that question. I've had that discussion with guys and women in the past. There are guys (including myself) that think going to a strip club is degrading to the "men" who go. Although, it doesn't stop us from going its still degrading to us in the sense that we pay money to see a woman nude that we know we have no chance of dating or having a relationship with. The girl makes money from either posing nude in Playboy or getting tips at a club for posing nude. We (the guys) are the ones who end up paying for that privilege.
Very good point! I hadn't thought of it that way before!
I dated a woman this summer who I met at a month long Yoga teacher training. I later found out she was a dancer/stripper. They study and use psychology to fleece men from as much money as they can get with their twisted sexual energies. She as much said things like this to me in times of anger. Once when we had an argument said she would go back to dance and do it just to hurt me. This was/is sick. I pity her and our culture for this happening. It is for the most part not good for any of us...
No matter what anyone says. It is WRONG, morally, ethically, and it does have a NEGATIVE impact on our society as a whole. Have you seen the after effects of men watching p*rnography daily? Or the fact that YOUNGER and YOUNGER girls as little as grade school are becoming sexualized because these things are ALL around us, out in the open.
Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously isn't using their logic. Yes, the main issue is with the people running the industry, but REMEMBER it runs on supply and demand. It's the PEOPLE who are the real problem, because they want it, regardless of it's negative effects, and the women and even men who are willing to be involved.
because some girls never had love and are searching for that love they strive for. they need attention.i know what you mean, its so terrible and you are not respecting yourself being nude
This is a personal choice and I can tell you my wife always fantasized about being in Playboy - why? No idea but after he mother passed away and she turned 40 she decided to go to casting call and they did a test shoot on her and she absolutely loved the experience - the beauty is that it was her decision and I supported her completely. Not for everyone but was an experience that we both enjoyed and was classy & well done. Not for me to critisize what others do especially when it does not harm or effect me!
i take offense to that statement. the one about the jew reading a nazi manual. I'm a jew myself and I would NEVER read a nazi manual. I'm also a guy, and I love women, especially naked women, but at least playboy is done tastefully, you ever seen the fresh prince of bel air episode where hillary is asked to pose, she does it and phil is at first very denying of it but..the pictures came back and they were good. while great women like susan b anthony will long live on, I don't think many women want to be like them anymore. in face, I think those women back then were more objectified than todays woman because they had no rights whatsoever, todays woman has the right to chose what she wants to do, thanks to the womans rights activist movement of the 70's. women of today chose to pose for such magazine because, they like to feel good in that sort of attention, its not like theyre going off and f***ing every guy they see just cause theyre doing it. plus, it makes good money, evey magazine sold, they make a little more. they know guys want to see it and they know it sells, so why wouldn't you?
i can't say you're wrong or right to feel the way you do, but..please don't make us seem like bad people because we like it, that's called antagonizing, try looking at it from both sides, then come back to me and tell me if you still hate it
God, your silhouette is HOT! Nice white areas.
Objectification is hot.
Because they are Female Chauvinist Pigs.
Why not profit from the stupidity of men?
Lol nice
This person clearly knows how to get ahead in this world
I honestly believe it's their business. I don't feel offended by playboy at all. The girls enjoy the attention and money they get, while the boys get what they pay for (the pictures, etc)
I can see how it objectifies women, but at the end of the day- women are sexual creatures/ nice to look at. I don't think that if playboy went away that men would suddenly stop thinking of women in a purely sexual way.
Some women place high value in men thinking they are attractive. It gives them validation that they are sexy, and that men get hot looking at their picture--it's flattering. Plus there are financial rewards, a degree of fame (some people seem willing to do almost anything for money and fame). Yeah, it is objectifying, and degrading in my opinion, but some people don't have a problem with that. They are perfectly fine if people just look at them as a nice piece of a55, as if that were the personal quality they were most proud of.
I wasn't trying to justify porn as I think it is disgusting and degrading to the women in it, the men who look at it, and the women in their lives. I was just trying to explain why I think some women would want to pose for Playboy.
Because not everybody buys into this feminist notion of "objectifying women".
if a girl wants to get naked and have guys look at her for money, not everyone believes that this contributes to any social inequality.
Men don't get paid to have women look at them naked. Don't you think that is social equality? How does playboy NOT objectify women. A girl who poses for Playboy is a picture on a page. A pair of boobs to jack off to. Not a person. How is that not objectification?
This is neither here not there, but just FYI, nobody masturbates to playboy anymore. This is the age of the net. Playboy is just for looking at and reading. Anyhow, if to objectify is to make someone into an object, then no, I don't think it does. These girls talk about there lives, and tell us something about themselves, and they even have phone times where you can chat with them. They have fan clubs and facebook pages. It's all kind of phony, like any relation a fan has with a celebrity; but
...but it isn't a relationship with an object. I might know that miss november is working through med school, likes cats, and has 3 sisters. She doesn't really know me, of course, but like any celebrity/fan relationship, I know a lot about her. I would not know such things about an object