For this post, I chose to talk about the sexualization of young girls and women in the entertainment industry. It is known that the entertainment field, and specifically the advertisement discipline, has a big influence on the behaviors and attitudes of our society. The advertising of our times has deformed the concept of beauty and I think this is one of the biggest ethical dilemmas in the entertainment field. Companies and brands have always used, as a persuasive approach, the bodies and faces of “beautiful” models. These models represent an unrealistic beauty portrayal. In fact, this has developed in youth several issues like excessive exercise, crazy diets, self-stem problems, and eating disorders because women want to emulate what they see everyday on TV, magazines, and more. So, I see this as an issue because little girls are exposed to these idealized bodies and this creates on them negative effects like frustration, anxiety, …show more content…
In 2008, the American Psychological Association released a report called “The sexualization of girls.” In this report, they stated that the use of this sexualized images in the media has created mental health crisis in young girls. So, I believe that the APA needs to keep fighting for this cause. The advertising regulations in the United States are more likely to protect the free speech than regulate the content of these ads but this clearly have to change at some point. That is why I propose to create some kind of regulations or censorship to ban the use of girls and women as a sexual object on the media. For example, in the United Kingdom exists a regulatory body called ASA and they are the ones that study and decide which advertisements are morally and ethically correct for the public. In fact, in 2011, they banned an advertisement with the young actress Dakota Fanning. So, I believe that the US has to create a regulatory body to deal with this king of