Modeling swimsuits from a young age, as she approached her 16th birthday, tabloids published photos of her from June to July of that year, counting down the days until they could legally show her topless to their predominantly male readers.įollowing her 18th birthday, when she was finally legal in the U.S., she made her North American debut in “breast fetishism” magazine Score who made her their cover girl in a special edition for their 50th anniversary. She had been sexualized from an outrageously young age due to her naturally large breasts. English glamour model, and later a pornographic personality, McKenzie made her topless modeling debut in the UK Sunday Sport on her 16th birthday in 1994. With this topic in mind, one of the first personalities I thought of was a girl called Linsey Dawn McKenzie. But in UK tabloids especially (where the age of consent is 16), she had been the victim of a predatory practice with no care for how wholesomely she may have marketed herself. Unlike some stars who market themselves sexually even as young girls, Watson had played a character in a family film. It’s beyond creepy to count down the days until it’s “appropriate” to sexualize a minor. In 2004, before the Olsen twins were set to turn 18, several websites had active countdowns by the minute telling viewers when the Mary Kate and Ashley would become "legal.” A few years later, tabloids across the West were furiously awaiting the birthday of Harry Potter actress Emma Watson to be legal for sexualization too. Now, it’s beyond creepy to count down the days until it’s “appropriate” to sexualize a minor, but, for some reason, it has been somewhat socially acceptable for years. If it wasn’t bad enough for us to commodify sexuality to adults, many have played “waiting games” – counting down the days until they can legally sexualize children too. With this constant and seemingly never-ending pressure, it comes as no shock how easily and often younger women are sexualized while in the spotlight. ![]() The pressure for women to achieve or maintain the work they do often leads them to do things that leave them feeling uncomfortable and degraded.įemale celebrities “belong” to their audience and their lives are rarely their own. Time and time again, we hear stories of women being abused throughout Hollywood. ![]() They “belong” to their audience and their lives are rarely their own. Women in the spotlight are routinely pressured to pander to an industry where one thing sells more than anything – sex.
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