Everywhere you look, something will always stand out to you. For example, whenever you go to the store and are waiting in line to check out there is always a display of magazines for you to look at as you wait. The covers of these magazines are what catch your eye to persuade you to purchase them. These covers are usually a photo of a woman who is wearing revealing clothing, and in the top corner is the sentence "10 Ways to Be Sexier" in big bolded and bright letters, or something similar at the least. As you open this magazine you see ads for makeup, food, Apple products, etc. and these companies want the models to be as appealing as possible. It seems that the only way that models could be appealing is if sex is somehow suggested with the body language captured in the image. Personally, growing up and being surrounded by these kinds of magazines and ads has only had negative effects on how girls see themselves. I have witnessed several friends change because they try to fit in with how women are supposed to look like according to the images we see every day. Whether it was changing the way that they dress, cake on a bunch of makeup, or go on "diets" in order to lose weight, I lost a lot of friends because they wanted to look beautiful and be around other people who looked beautiful.

Revealing images like this have very negative psychological and physical effects on women of all ages. A study on physically active college women was conducted to see how they would react and feel about different images that they observe that are sexually objectified. The experiment was conducted by four professional psychologists with doctorates who specialize in behavioral reactions and analysis of different coping mechanisms. The hypothesis to this experiment was that these physically active women would not feel any negative emotions because of them being young and healthy. The women who are not as physically active responded negatively, but the women who are physically active responded negatively as well. The results showed that even the women would avoid looking at the image, fix their own appearance, or they would rationally accept the image. This means that they would talk themselves into believing that the image was normal and acceptable. An appearance anxiety questionnaire and a body image assessment were conducted for the experiment to support the results.

Another experiment was conducted to study how both women and men visualize themselves, and how conscious they are about themselves during social interactions with one another. The subjects' bodies, faces, or their voices were studied for the experiment to see which of the three that the women and the men were more self-conscious about. The study was to visualize how sexual targets, women, would present themselves while interacting with men. The women were more uncomfortable with the body condition because they talked less and narrowed their presence on their bodies, and they were the most comfortable with the auditory condition. The men were the most uncomfortable with the face condition, and the most comfortable with the auditory like the women. The psychologists that conducted this experiment all have doctorates and focus on how people interact with one another. They conducted this study because over many years women have become consumed how they appear and only work towards physically appealing first impressions.

The sexual objectification that is presented to us every day doesn't only effect our thoughts as adults, but it also effects the thoughts of younger teenage girls and how they see themselves. Six preteen and teenage girls from the ages of eleven to fourteen were interviewed by Kelsey Butterworth back in 2013. Kelsey showed the girls magazine ads and covers, a music videos, images of famous women to hear their thoughts on them and how appealing they thought that they were. To the ads and covers, the girls had negative responses such as stating that they were not appealing and that they would not attract anyone to the stores, including men. They were also shown Katy Perry's "California Girls" music video. The girls all agreed that the video only made it seem like it was okay for men to control women since Snoop Dogg was controlling the game, and that it was trying too hard to be sexual. The girls were then shown pictures of Nicki Minaj before and after she became famous, which showed the girls thoughts on how the music industry tries to promote artists based off of their sexual appeal. Getting the insight on how women are sexually targeted by girls of such a young age is proof that this issue is only becoming worse because it puts the idea in their heads that dressing provocatively is okay.

This research is to prove that constantly being exposed to images that sexually objectify women have negative effects on everybody that sees them. Some people may think that it isn't a big deal and that they are just advertising or promoting products, but the research that I have done so far has proven them wrong. All of my sources agree that recent images effect the viewers negatively and that women are the main targets of the ads, but they differ because of who they exposed to the images that they used. Women have changed themselves completely because they are constantly shown that they have to look a certain way to be beautiful. In order to become "beautiful" their mental stability wavers because the idea consumes them. Both of the experiments I have researched proved that eating disorders are a result of being exposed to sexual images. Sexually objectifying women is an issue, and nothing truly positive as seemed to come from it.

