In a recent paper, Bernard and colleagues report that sexual objectification is not driven by revealing clothes, but by suggestive postures. 1 Background information We are constantly exposed to ...

Objectification is a form of relational trauma that is often overlooked in therapy. Instead of a full person with their own thoughts, feelings, and needs, objectification means treating someone as an ...

To sexually objectify a woman is to focus on her body in terms of how it can provide sexual pleasure rather than viewing her as a complete human being with thoughts and feelings. While objectification ...

From the bind of beauty standards to the commonality of sexual violence, the risk of eating disorder development is everywhere. Share on Pinterest This article uses strong language and makes ...

Peter Koval receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Elise Holland works for Our Watch, Australia's national foundation to prevent violence against women and their children. Michelle ...

AI-generated images reinforce narrow, unrealistic and exclusionary body ideals, which are harmful to our body image.

Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University ...

I wrote in my last post about how the average woman (in a study of university women in Australia) notices unwanted sexual gazing towards them about once every two days, and about 1.5 times a day ...

1 Athletics Research Center, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), Division of Psychology ...