Sexy videoclips influence young girls more than boys, study shows
Sexy video clips have a more negative influence on girls than on boys, says Dutch pop professor Tom ter Bogt. Ter Bogt investigated the influence of sexy video clips on the thoughts, behaviour and self-image of 13 to 16 year old children. After viewing the clips, girls tend to dress more sexy than before, and are less resolute in in denying permissive sex.
In his research Ter Bogt showed sexy videos from well-known popartists 50 Cent, Amanda Wilson ft. Freemasons, Nelly, NERD and David Guetta to a group of 250 children. An equally-sized group watched the concert performances of the same songs. After seeing the video’s the girls in the test group tended to act and dress more like the models in the clips, and they tended to be less satisfied about their own appearances. Unexpectedly the videos did not affect the boys in the groups as much, their behavior and self-image was more or less unchanged, contrary to previous beliefs that boys can be influenced by sexy videos to participate in group rapes.
Tom ter Bogt was instated today as professor at the University of Utrecht in pop music and youth culture. “There is no reason for a moral panic,” Ter Bogt says, “young people need to experiment with sex. But these experiments must be based on equality between men and women, and the relationships in these videos are not based on equality. The clips undermine the self-image of young girls. When they start to define their identity with their looks, they may lose self-confidence, will perform worse in school, and will suffer more from eating disorders.”
The conclusions of Ter Bogt are confirmed by research by U.S. psychologists. Their research shows that parents are a major influence in how girls get their self-image.
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February 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Everything seems to affect girls more negatively in these PC times. Girls see that dressing sexy gets more attention from boys, more gifts, dates, and dinners so they go for it. It’s about power.
A friend wrote that there is so much prejudice against men that everything is turned around to be more harmful to girls and women. I think you’ve read that women suffer more in wayrs.
This friend wrote that if the New York Time reported “The World Ends Tomorrow” they would add “Women and girls most seriously impacted.”
February 16th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Their research shows that parents are a major influence in how girls get their self-image.
Notice the word…parents. It is not true. Most girls get their self image from their fathers. They do not want to say fathers because we all know fathers are simply sperm donors and wallets.
It is time to get homest research and honest results. Fathers are vastly important and I contend that they can do more to improve all our children and more so then moms.
February 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Given that the things that men do and young men do can be immediately deadly (or much more so than things young women do), it makes sense that they will adopt slower. though it also makes sense that once they do they will also be more loyal.