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Women talk less when being "checked out"?

Saguy's study is one of the first to provide evidence of the social harms of sexual objectification - the act of treating people as "de-personalised objects of desire instead of as individuals with complex personalities". It targets women more often than men. It's apparent in magazine covers showing a woman in a sexually enticing pose, in inappropriate comments about a colleague's appearance, and in unsolicited looks at body parts. These looks were what Saguy focused on.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/01/how_sexual_objectification_silences_women_-_the_male_glance.php

Gaze and Advertising

http://www.springerlink.com/content/f7pthn2p59e12bat/

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the model offered by Thomas Rochon is used to examine how ideas, activism, and changing American values have influenced advertiser practices as they relate to sexualized images of men in mainstream media. Previous research has highlighted the importance of economic shifts on advertiser practices, ignoring the importance of cultural factors, such as the influence of the gay liberation movement on representations of masculinity in the post 1960s era. Second, a quantitative analysis of sexualized depictions of masculinity is presented. These data suggest that men in contemporary advertisements increasingly display the visual cues of objectification. After positioning these sexualized images in a larger social, political, and economic context, the implications of male objectification is discussed.

Female Eros

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316018

A good Idea

Its a good idea to focus on literature, or film, or a specific genre of painting to narrow down.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/t3517p00714332h5/

Over the past 30 years, the literature on how women are depicted in advertising has been strongly influenced by studies conducted in the U.S. and Europe and may not fully describe the ways in which women are depicted in advertising across cultures. In this study we analyzed advertisements collected from women's fashion and beauty magazines in Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States to compare the ways in which Western and Asian models were portrayed in print advertisements. We found that although demure dress was used most often for both races, Western models were shown more frequently than Asian models in seductive dress. Western models were also posed more often than Asian models as the Seductive beauty type. Product categories also differed. Asian models were used more frequently in advertisements for hair and skin beauty products, whereas Western models dominated the clothing category. The findings suggest that Western models are used more than Asian models in advertisements which are body oriented, and that Western models are used in advertisements in Asia when the underlying marketing strategy is that sex sells.

Gaze Research

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6856/abs/413589a0.html

Faces are visual objects in our environment that provide strong social cues¹, with the eyes assuming particular importance^{2, 3}. Here we show that the perceived attractiveness of an unfamiliar face increases brain activity in the ventral striatum of the viewer when meeting the person's eye, and decreases activity when eye gaze is directed away. Depending on the direction of gaze, attractiveness can thus activate dopaminergic regions that are strongly linked to reward prediction⁴, indicating that central reward systems may be engaged during the initiation of social interactions.

When A Stare is worth a thousand words

http://smilepanic.com/when-stare-is-worth-a-thousand-words

Comic Book Babes

This might be the specific area to research

http://www.vigadget.com/2010/07/18/top-10-hottest-comic-book-babes.html

Most Beautiful People huh?

What makes them the most beautiful?

http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/most-beautiful-and-most-sexual-people-2010-04052010.html