Women's Studies 2161A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Playboy Bunny, Shorts, Softcore Pornography
30 Apr 2018
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• At a club promoting thing called Babes on the Bed competition- chose pose on beds in
night clubs, one given modelling contract w Nuts magazine= all dressed as models in
hotpants and high stiletto heels (extremely sexualized outfits)
• Group of girls dressed up as playboy bunnies to celebrate friend’s b-day- 2 secretaries
and housewife “im allowed out on Thursdays”
• One girl models already and agent found online= glamour modeling- coy words posing
almost naked for men’s mags (just supporting friend)- get used seen as object
• Sales Nuts and Zoo entered real decline since early heyday infl real as ever- cont ongoing
cut shift in glamour modelling- may be naked but wont expose genitals- massively
expanded in Britain
• First launched 2004, belief young men buy want articles about football and cars, rather
than pictures of women- if were women, should be acknowledged beauties film and tv
world but direction quickly changed- readers say may want Jennifer Lopez but actually
want ordinary-looking girls
• Mags began make images more explicit, w pages crowded w pics young W in thongs
• Nuts= laddish, explicit cult women seen in underwear/ not at all- drag all other men’s
mags into competition as which most explicit w/o quite stepping into pornography
• Much energy shifted over to internet, and on Nuts website can find constant stream men
commenting on photos W post of themselves in glamour-style poses
• Girls come into clubs wearing just underwear, things expect see bedroom, all getting
boob jobs= 18 y/o not saving first car but now boob jobs- think route to fortune, some is
• Might think tricky get young W take up openly sexual poses in brightly lit club in front
crowd yelling, drunk young men, but girls seemed know what expected of them and if
became too reluctant, Cara threw herself into task of encouraging them w some gusto
• As display became more sexual, underwear unpeeling from smooth skin teen women,
men in club began chant, heavily and fast, and press nearer and nearer to stage, and
women come w drifted back, ignored, to bar area where ordered more alch
• Too fleshy around middle and not chest= boos not cheers- looked tearful back in line
• Need to show boobs and as show went on got more raunchy- only girls flashed boobs/
thongs called back final four
• Tested girl-on-girl action= kissing each other w boobs out- one took pants off= winner
• Girls came w Tania didn’t like it, thought bit degrading- degrading women= playful even
aspirational
• 2006 survey carried out among teen girls sugg more half consider being glamour models
and third saw Jordan as role model (famous big boobs)- growth cult so many W feel
worth measured by breast size rather any other poss yardstick arrived in UK apparently
out of nowhere
• Late 1980s, sniggery British cult Benny Hill and page three seemed way out and W
didn’t talk about stripping as means empowerment/ look lap dancers for role models-
revitalisation glamour modelling become symptom wider change in cult, images and
attitudes soft porn now come flooding young W every side media
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