Objectification
Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire.
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The Detrimental Effect of Sexual Objectification on Targets’ and Perpetrators’ Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Sexual Coercion
Sexual objectification is a variable to consider for understanding the sexual violence that takes place into intimate context. The set of studies presented here aims to connect sexual objectification phenomena with sexual coercion and explore the consequences that both have on sexual satisfaction.
The results of the first study (n = 138 heterosexual women) demonstrated that perceiving partner objectification (but not reporting general sexual objectification victimization) is indirectly linked to a lower sexual satisfaction because of lower rejection and higher sexual coercion rates. The second study (n = 136 heterosexual men) showed the indirect effect of partner objectification and general sexual objectification perpetration on sexual satisfaction after sexual coercion perpetration. Results of both studies demonstrated the negative consequences that sexual objectification has on sexual satisfaction for both male perpetrators and female targets.
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Those who ogle also more likely to have harmful attitudes, study finds
New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research examining 'eye gaze behaviour' has found that looking at people's bodies, rather than their faces, is linked with harmful attitudes towards sexual assault.
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THE EFFECTS OF SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION ON WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH (NYU Applied Psychology)
Every day in the United States, women face many different forms of gender oppression and discrimination. Examples range on a spectrum from sexist jokes said in passing to sexual harassment and coercion, physical abuse, rape, and even murder.
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Sexually objectifying women leads women to objectify themselves, and harms emotional well-being (The Conversation)
How does a woman feel when a man wolf-whistles at her from across the street? Or when a male coworker gives her body a fleeting once-over before looking her in the eye?
These examples may seem relatively innocent to some, but our research has found they can have negative consequences for women’s emotional well-being.
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Do Self-Objectified Women Believe Themselves to Be Free? Sexual Objectification and Belief in Personal Free Will (Frontiers)
The present study aims to investigate the indirect link between sexual objectification and belief in personal free will. We hypothesized that being subjected to objectifying commentary would lead women to self-objectify and, in turn, to perceive themselves as having less personal free will.
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Not An Object: On Sexualization and Exploitation of Women and Girls (Unicef)
The objectification and sexualization of girls in the media are linked to violence against women and girls worldwide.
Sexual objectification contributes to harmful gender stereotypes that normalize violence against girls