Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual�…

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding�…

The Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, published in 2007, is one of
the most frequently accessed APA reports. The task force was formed and report was�…

Media may function as sex educators for adolescents; unfortunately, media messages often
glamorize risky sexual behaviors and unhealthy relationships and neglect sexual health�…

Abstract We employ Natural Language Processing techniques to analyse 377,808 English
song lyrics from the “Two Million Song Database” corpus, focusing on the expression of�…

In this article, the representation of male and female musicians is compared between three
major genres of music performance and across three geographical regions: the United�…

Given that exposure to sexual messages in song lyrics can influence sociocultural norms
and expectations surrounding consent communication between partners, we sought to�…

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can result in devastating and long lasting consequences.
Differences in the nature of the abuse differ for males and females and this difference�…

Gender representation portrayed in popular mass media is known to reflect and reinforce
societal gender stereotypes. This research uses two methods of natural language�…

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from
the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of�…