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To: epicure who wrote (235959)	7/11/2007 11:55:49 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Now you're sounding like you're about to promote the burka! If public promotion of a standardized view of beauty and specifically sexuality is bad, as you appear to now be claiming, mandating burkas must be good since that is the affect of that clothing. Voila, burkas solve your problem. Fortunately, it is your problem, since most of us disagree with you and enjoy our opportunities to see the lovely ladies in the Vic Secret catalogue, so they're staying.

To: epicure who wrote (235959)	7/11/2007 12:12:09 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here in Salt Lake City, the Mormon church has spent about a billion bucks buying and redoing the mall across from it's "Vatican" temple, I think so they could get rid of the Victoria's Secret store in the mall. In it's place will be the most whitebread, boring mall in America, with stores like "Build Your Own Bear" and "Scrapbooking Heaven"!

To: epicure who wrote (235959)	7/11/2007 12:55:17 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"In their TV adds, again, you see the same thing. There is nothing wrong with beauty, or sexuality, but our culture is dripping with it. Not only does this avalanche of female sexual material make "normal" women feel inadequate, it also affects the emphasis of the society, and imo has affected our children adversely. Should the emphasis in our society be on sexuality, and on the media's skewed view of sexuality?" I was shocked a few years ago when I saw a scientific study of developed countries. The study rated opinions about how people ranked the sexyness of women in each country. Out of thirty something countries, American women were ranked dead last. I figured with all the movies and advertizing that exploit sex appeal we would have been first. Sorry I don't remember the source but it was presented in by an Industrial Psychologist and seemed credible. Personally I think the media does a great disservice to women and I wouldn't be surprised if the disappointment mature women experience when their relationships aren't what cindarella and tooth paste adds promised ,,, are associated with what they were sold as children.