“I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.” ThinkingMenWayLooksCertainSexInterestingObjectsPressureMalesBehaveReally InterestingObjectification Author:Joe Manganiello
“Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry based upon such images viable, would require the reconstruction of women's sexuality into a ruling-class sexuality. In an egalitarian society objectification would not exist and therefore the particular buzz provided by pornography, the excitement of eroticised dominance for the ruling class, would be unimaginable.” MenEnoughWould BeNumbersClassParticularIndustrySexyGenderSexualityInequalityPropagandaExcitementPassiveRulingPornographyDominanceBuzzReconstructionUnimaginableObjectification Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.” MenBookSchoolBeautifulRememberFormSeeingGroupsHonestDangerousCollegeLibraryPhotographLooking BackHarshPortraitsShockedObjectificationDepictionTreadingAssemblingSchool LibraryWhatever You Say Author:Alec Soth