Blog Three

I thought that the articles Ten Seconds to Love, Decoding Victoria Secret, and Porn were the most provocative and interesting articles. Ten Seconds to Love grabbed my attention because of the way Chuck Klosterman described Pamela Anderson, and Marilyn Monroe. The way he compared them interested me a lot. while describing the two and how they are so much a like yet different something comes up about the way Marilyn Monroe is considered so much more iconic than Pam could ever be. As well as the way Marilyn had a husband that was famous as well for playing baseball, how this could never work in the 90's when Pam Anderson was the male "fantasy". I feel that the information in this article was something that would be important to know because of the way we view our society. Decoding Victoria Secret was also interesting to me because of the way that it started out being for men. Then how they realized that they could sell more if they changed target of merchandise towards women. This is important because of the way that gender roles play out. The last one that I thought was provocative was the article Porn. I thought that this was interesting because of the way that it shows how easy porn is to get to. I feel that this is important because, I believe that this is something that is going to become an issue as to free porn and buying porn.

Pornography

I believe that the proper role of pornography is to give people the experience to have a sex life. Some people experience sex, but that just is not enough for them. In the American society I believe that the people who watch pornography are mainly people who do not have a sex life, or people that are addicted to having sex. The idea of porn to me is to sell luxury to women, and focusing on what men really are looking for(or wish they had).There are many people who are benefiting and many people who are harmed by this. People or things that benefit from porn are: companies trying to sell things. By that I mean that companies could put an item in the porno and it would make a person feel that they could be more attractive if they used that certain product. If it were a woman's product, it would help because a woman's body helps sell items, they would not put someone who is unattractive in something they want to sell. The Internet is benefiting from porn as well. There are websites that people can now go to, and pay to watch it at their own convience. At the same time however it is also harming the people who made the pornography, because there are many sites on the Internet that people can now go to and watch for free. Thus meaning that the people who produced it, and would get money from it are no longer getting paid from it. A harmful thing for a woman is that if she sees a woman that is attractive and the man wants her and finds her attractive. She bases the ideal part of beauty and being wanted based on how the men/man see(s) her.

Beauty

I think that there have been good arguments made, and ones that were not so good. How people perceive beauty is different for everyone. I feel that the readings have brought up many good points about the way things seem to be in our society. In regards as to our perception of beauty and if it is healthy or not i can see two sides. The first side is that being to skinny and doing things to your body to try to make it better(look better) is not healthy. The second side being that it is the way humans have described the word beauty for sometime, and it is not healthy to be overweight. This is the way that i feel that America views the word society. I do believe that our society focuses on appearance a lot more than most other things in this world that pertain to beauty.