... viewers, since many of the Federal Communications Commission standards for what type of programming a television stations is permitted to air are not as stringent for cable programmers. For example, the Playboy Channel shows programming, which can be characterized as "soft" pornography. And no parent can ever be completely sure that his or her young child will not see this type of ... programming because, even if a child's parents do not subscribe to the Playboy Channel, there is always the possibility that a neighbor child's parents do subscribe to cable stations which feature nudity o...

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... society continues to promote an unrealistic body image the numbers of adolescent cases of anorexia and bulimia will continue to increase. Like the Barbi twins, Shane and Sia, who were Playboy Playmates in the mid 90s', they too battled with their weight. As young girls, they were obsessed with their appearance, which led them to start dieting at an early age ... ...

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... the last twenty years16,17. This shift toward a thinner ideal was first documented by Garner and associates (1980) where they found a significant decrease in the body measurements and weights of Playboy centrefolds and Miss America Pageant contestants from 1959 to 1978. This decrease was combined with a significant increase in the number of diet articles in popular women's magazines over the same ... ...

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