London striptease - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... In London, for example, the striptease industry is currently booming and many people are flocking into related institutions e.g. the Jo King’s School of Striptease. Many of the women who striptease feel that it empowers them and that it is an adequate way to improve their image. Sexualisation has also hit the media with sexual exposure becoming vital for magazines, movies, music and advertisements to achieve financial success. However, does embracing sexualisation in the society really liberate those involved, especially women, or does it imprison their potential and possibilities? Does sexualisation really empower? It all started with strippers going live on TV to give lessons on lap dancing men to orgasm. Then celebrities like Britney Spears started becoming increasingly popular in relation to their nudity, so much, so that discussions about some of their private parts became major subjects in entertainment gossip. Charlie’s Angels, the movie, was then introduced in 2001, enhancing the interest of people in ‘sexy’ crime fighting. It involved stars who dressed in soft porn like fashion, which was apparently meant to inspire empowerment and independence in women. Its sequel involved even more sexualisation as the stars were required to perform many stripteases while undertaking their missions. This did not end with the TVs and the radios as anyone walking down the streets in any Western world community would come across teens, young women, and some occasional wild fifty-year –olds wearing shorts cut so low and so tight that they exposed the butt cleavage. These shorts would then be paired with miniature tops, which showed the whole sections of breasts above the nipples and the pierced navels alike. In some cases, as if the overall message radiated from such clothing was not obvious enough, the pieces of clothing would be imprinted with the playboy bunny or a nude porn star’s picture or drawing. As if things were not becoming weird, enough, many women started going to strip clubs (with female strippers) in their leisure time. They explained that it felt liberating and rebellious to watch their fellow women on the poles, toss some notes at them or shove them in their underwear and occasionally strip down and join them. Many young women became openly and shamelessly obsessed with porn stars, a hobby previously thought to be exclusively for teenage boys. As a result, girls started purchasing merchandise like the one g-strings and vibrators commonly associated with their favorite porn stars (Levy 2010: 32). Nowadays, nudity has become such a common part of life. So much so that exposing a woman’s breasts in public is not considered a taboo, most so in the Western world. In fact, such a scenario is given surprisingly little attention as witnessed in many of the streets. There have been numerous reports of female celebrities taking their morning jogs on the streets of Hollywood with nothing but their underwear on, during rush hour traffic. According to the reports, very few people even pay any significance to them, leave alone staring, whistling or commenting inappropriately. Such a scenario can be witnessed in many of America’s beaches, which have fully embraced nudity and anyone seen with even a drab of underwear is considered out of place. Also contributing to this notion is the fashion industry. Models are strolling down the runway with tops that reveal everything under them as they apparently believe that it does not ...Download file to see next pagesRead More