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Do you feel that commercial sexual exploitation affects you?
So many women are used this way and it's seeping further into our culture. My daughter and I went to a new shop to find school clothes last fall and visited a place called "Steppin Out" where all her girlfriends were shopping. Amist the expensive clothing I found a poster stand. Expecting band art or silly sayings like "World Peas" I found "soft" porn and naked women. I was shocked and discussed this with my thirteen year old and found to my horror that she didn't have a problem with that type of material around. She said "Those women chose to have thier pictures taken, why should I care." I tried to tell her about exploitation and how many of these people are raised to view themselves as only sexual objects but I think your article can do a much better job.
Posted by: Heather McBride (Bend, OR)
Posted: 6/4/2007 11:47:29 AM
Congregation: Grace First Lutheran Church
It really is insidious how easy it seems we "buy" into the exploitation with such seemingly simple choices. Hopefully, this can give us pause and allow us the space to consider our choices - in purchasing, in self-reflection, in viewing or reading, and in what we say or do. And overall, to encourage everywhere that our bodies are gifts from God - temples, not tools. (With the understanding that temples too need refurbishing and decoration, worthy of God).
Posted by: Dawn (Elk Grove Village, IL)
Posted: 5/31/2007 4:57:14 PM
Congregation: Christus Victor
Thanks Elizabeth for such a well written article. It engages us all who walk through the checkout line and it engages us all as you did a good job of convicting us at the end. Thanks for also owning up about how it is hard to be church and offer support and respect. As a pastor I see congregations and even people like myself struggling to figure out how to be more open and really do something. Thanks.
Posted by: Janelle (Naperville, IL)
Posted: 5/22/2007 12:37:09 PM
Congregation: St. Timothy Lutheran
I see it affecting all of us, in how we perceive ourselves and each other. Sometimes I feel a little defensive when I assume someone is dismissing me because I do not fit into the stereotype of the sexually attractive female that the culture promotes. Or I can see my teen daughter tempted to conform to such images and compromise her identity. Or I see other young women accepting the stereotypes and exploiting their own beauty to the loss of developing other inner qualities that have greater value.
Posted by: Deborah (St. Louis, MO)
Posted: 5/12/2007 12:23:49 AM
Congregation: Bethel Lutheran Church
I, too, am disturbed by the sexual TV commercials. What can be done to correct this?
Posted by: Marge Olawsky (Sioux Falls, SD)
Posted: 5/9/2007 9:56:08 AM
Congregation: Grace Lutheran Church
Commercial sexual exploitation affects all women. Most insidious of all is the message to young women to use their bodies instead of their minds to achieve their individual goals. I really feel it is up to the older women to counsel the younger ones, but how? Would they listen? They are being robbed of their integrity and individuality.
Posted by: Joanne Martin (Jacksonville, FL)
Posted: 5/9/2007 9:18:28 AM
Congregation: Trinity Lutheran Church
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