Personal Body Image Research Paper

We live in a world surrounded by the media's images of beauty and sexuality. As consumers of marketplace goods we are all to often influenced to purchase beautification items and or goods in order to accomplish an individual feeling within ourselves. That very feeling within ourselves it what is today considered self-image. In today's culture the media's projections of beauty serve as recommendations of what our bodies should look like in order to be considered sexy or beautiful. This has brought forth dilemmas in society that were non-existent up until the recent popularity of social media websites. Although social media has the potential to be harmful in the sense of cyberbullying and the promotion and projection of the slim but curvy female …show more content…
Harm that can cause eating disorders like anorexia and emotional disorders such as low self-esteem or depression. Although these self inflicted disorders are negative in their impacts on society as a whole. It is appeent that the younger generation of adults that proactively strive to achieve personal body satisfaction benefit greatly in terms of discipline and health. The positive impact of sexual advertisements it is often overlooked in the means of female empowerment.
The individuality and confidence that these women personally obtain by means of beautification is due to the prime examples set by advertisements and the media. The negativity is often projected and the positivity of improving one's body image is overlooked along with self beautification inspiring qualities on …show more content…
This can apply to many different means of a person's everyday life. Because everyone had differences in preferences and attitudes toward their self image. Things like size, odor, sound, and personality. In the article Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting This source tells of how an individual's self expression of sexuality does not need to conform to the standards of society in the means of normality. The article explains that due to personal preferences and differences in sexual experience or exploitation there is a wide array of means of sexual expression. Due to the variety of social networking sites there is a community of people that are comfortable with exploiting their body's to others online for personal gratitude. This practice could be more easily explained as sexual self advertisement via means of social media. The authors of the article classify mainstream social media and use recent mainstream acronyms like NSFW to represent a class of criteria, media, and content that is “Not Safe For Work” or private adult information that would be detrimental to work life if it was in the hands of an employer. Websites such as Tumblr serve as a virtual playground for both men and women to gratify others and their personal physical and or sexual