Sex sells
There’s a prevailing idea that objectification of female characters in media is justified, because sex (or rather female sexualization) always sells, particularly to horny straight men who are the allegedly only demographic worth selling stuff to.
- Maxatax article about falsehood of “sex sells” rhetoric + our further commentary on the matter
- Why there’s no evidence that sexploitation of female characters is an objective sales booster
- Why “sex sells” is a big misnomer
- Unilever confirms sex isn’t selling their products
- Survey says Teenage boys agree this is nonsense
