Religion should support a woman s right to sexuality, not maintain that it is something dirty for which they should all be punished for the sinful state that they are born into. Support of this belief subjects women to a permanently unsatisfactory religious life. Today there are two major influences on how a person looks at, understands, and applies sexuality to themselves. Society, particularly in reference to women, hurts female confidence in their sexuality with negative images in pornography, erotic advertisements, and harmful social ramifications leaving them confused about what is acceptable and how society, especially men, could punish them for it or otherwise use it against them. Secondly, religious individuals often see sexuality as something to be repressed because it is sinful, associating it with Eve s sinful downfall.
Sexuality is a trait that is highly valued in American society, but the repercussions are costly.
In the United States and throughout the world, sex appeal is the number one advertising mechanism used to attract audiences. At first I thought that this standpoint was rather radical for its harsh judgement of the public and its power. She concludes that the gamut of sexual expression, from art and advertising to pornography, is all the same, with the separating factor being the degree and medium in which it is used. And when I make the return voyage from stuff that is labeled pornography to stuff that is labeled advertising and even art, I see some of the same gestures, the same arrangements of people, the same poses, the same messages. And I begin to shift my understanding of unaccountable power-over as not the cause of violence against women, but the mediating structure through which individual acts of violence are meted out.