... gender, and the reasons why female sports and athletes continue to be marginalized in comparison to their male counterparts. One status granted to most male professional athletes is that of a "playboy". Whether it is the money, the fame, the houses, the cars, or whatever, male athletes appear to have very few problems attracting members of the opposite sex. Wilt Chamberlain went ... acts in the aisles while male fans gawked in enjoyment. If this isn't enough to keep men tuned in and coming to the games, what is? Well, Keith Cox won a Playboy contest last year, and part of his prize was ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of a beautiful woman in a seductive pose deserves at least a glance from both men and women alike. Chivas Regal, a premium scotch whiskey, uses its advertisement in the October 2002 issue of Playboy, to allow the readers mind to lust over the tasteful photograph. By associating natural beauty with a quality liquor in a men's magazine this advertisement forms a social hierarchy where the female gender ... households that was so prevalent in our society has been gradually changing since the 1960's. Equality between men and women is a hard concept for many males to grasp. Magazines like Pl...

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... order to demonstrate that gender and body are separate things. "They were not marvellously upright, the kind women wear as epaulettes, as a mark of rank. Neither were they pubescent playboy fantasies. They had done their share of time and begun to submit to gravity's insistence. The flesh was brown, the aureoles browner still, nipples bead black. My gypsy sisters I called ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of "prehistoric sculptures of females with pendulous breasts and very wide hips" (Van Der Leun 476). Such images of the female body can now be found within the pages of Playboy, Penthouse, and Swedish Erotica. Although Van Der Leun relates the explicit images to prehistoric expressions, in no way does he justify pornography by stating it is a classic art form. More ... ...

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... models, how to gain sexuality. Because of this, a fictitious standard is set by all men and women. This means that all men are looking for the perfect, yet non-existing, Playboy Bunny, and all women are trying to be just that. Dr. Kilbourne illustrates this best when showing the Special K commercial in which it is implied that men don't worry about ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... more attractive to men) and have no sexual significance of their own". Yet in a lot of men's magazines today the women are slim with reasonably large breasts. In a study of Playboy centrefolds, Mazur (1986, cited in Grogan 1999, p.149) notes that, "although the women portrayed there have become thinner over the years, their breasts have remained relatively large. However for most ... ...

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... world. "Girls" talk" on the other hand, sounds sufficiently derogative not to pay attention to it. Secondly, the society itself which, through customs and religion, fashions the charming young male a "playboy" or "movie star" but the equally charming young girl a "slut" or "prostitute". In Southern European societies, having a mistress is perhaps not encouraged yet definitely not frowned upon as long as ... ...

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