Comments on: Sarah Murdoch Untouched http://www.about-face.org/sarah-murdoch-untouched/ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: celeste weeks http://www.about-face.org/sarah-murdoch-untouched/#comment-785 celeste weeks Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:34:14 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=2138#comment-785 I think we need to realize the direct connection between "preferred body type" and pornography. Weather the pornography industry started or cashes in on the idea of "preferred body type" it perpetuates it. Women, naturally, want men to like and desire them. Pornographic representation of the female body (regardless of what pornographers have it doing) program men to arousal only when the woman looks like the images they have been fed since adolescence. The epidemic of impotence (the inability to perform with the partner in your life without visual aids) can be directly linked to the pornography industry. Programing men to only respond to women who fit the pornographers image of the "perfect sexual female machine" also programs them to be less than interested in real women. The fashion and cosmetic industries reinforce the ideas fed by the porn industry and thus these images are also presented to women. In essence women are also fed the tripe presented to men thereby completing the never ending circle. I think we need to realize the direct connection between “preferred body type” and pornography.
Weather the pornography industry started or cashes in on the idea of “preferred body type” it perpetuates it. Women, naturally, want men to like and desire them. Pornographic representation of the female body (regardless of what pornographers have it doing) program men to arousal only when the woman looks like the images they have been fed since adolescence. The epidemic of impotence (the inability to perform with the partner in your life without visual aids) can be directly linked to the pornography industry. Programing men to only respond to women who fit the pornographers image of the “perfect sexual female machine” also programs them to be less than interested in real women.

The fashion and cosmetic industries reinforce the ideas fed by the porn industry and thus these images are also presented to women. In essence women are also fed the tripe presented to men thereby completing the never ending circle.

]]> By: Jess http://www.about-face.org/sarah-murdoch-untouched/#comment-784 Jess Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:03:55 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=2138#comment-784 Ahh, it's too bad to see this beautiful woman covering her wrinkles.. Wrinkles are natural and beautiful to me. Nothing can be as bad as facial hair that returns with a vengeance. Ahh, it’s too bad to see this beautiful woman covering her wrinkles.. Wrinkles are natural and beautiful to me. Nothing can be as bad as facial hair that returns with a vengeance.

]]> By: laura albano http://www.about-face.org/sarah-murdoch-untouched/#comment-783 laura albano Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:59 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=2138#comment-783 I apologize for my bad english spoken, however I have to thank you a lot for the work you're doing, both with this blog and both with actions... In Italy we have the worst situation about female body image in media. Since I was young I wished to do a magazine like that Ariah's comment. At the moment all I can do is a blog and photo exhibitions to show real beauty of women, called "An other (kind of) woman", in Italian "Un'Altra Donna": www.unaltradonna.wordpress.com I'm learning so much from About face, thank you again! I apologize for my bad english spoken, however I have to thank you a lot for the work you’re doing, both with this blog and both with actions…
In Italy we have the worst situation about female body image in media.
Since I was young I wished to do a magazine like that Ariah’s comment.
At the moment all I can do is a blog and photo exhibitions to show real beauty of women, called “An other (kind of) woman”, in Italian “Un’Altra Donna”:

http://www.unaltradonna.wordpress.com

I’m learning so much from About face, thank you again!

]]> By: ariah http://www.about-face.org/sarah-murdoch-untouched/#comment-782 ariah Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:05:27 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=2138#comment-782 Wow, could you imagine what that magazine would look like? It'd be amazing. Picture a magazine that made the decision to follow that charter to show diversity in body images and held their advertisers to it as well. Wow. I'd buy that magazine no matter what it was about. Wow, could you imagine what that magazine would look like? It’d be amazing. Picture a magazine that made the decision to follow that charter to show diversity in body images and held their advertisers to it as well. Wow. I’d buy that magazine no matter what it was about.

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