Introduction Going to any strip club is a completely new experience, and can cause tensions and feelings of discomfort if someone has been raised to believe that a woman should keep her private parts” private. For me, this experience was full of tension, discomfort, and embarrassment in the moment. However, looking back, I believe it was an eye-opening experience. Experience When entering the 18 and up part of the club, it was very quiet at opening. There was maybe two or three more people there, and they were men/boys. Walking in there was no trouble at all, only a warning for me because I am not 21, so I was not allowed anywhere else other than the designated area. At the beginning of the experience, there was not a lot going on. The dancers that were there announced that they were practicing for another time, and the ones that were there approached the men who were in the club. However, when the club activity started to pick up, there were a lot more people coming into the area, dancers started to do routines on the floor, and the experience became more than just sitting in the corner not knowing what to do. My personal experience with going to a strip club was different than I thought it was going to be. …show more content…
According to Ward (2016), media such as T.V. shows, T.V. commercials, and music videos show different aspects of sexualization of women. This review focuses on research gathered from 1995 to 2015 on the sexualization of women in media (Ward, 2016). The results from each study found that there was consistent evidence that sexualization in media leads to body dissatisfaction, self-objectification, sexist beliefs, and more (Ward, 2016). This evidence also showed that sexualized images are processed in the brain differently than non-sexualized ones (Ward, 2016). Growing up, I saw many sexualizations of women on television, but mainly in music