SHOULD EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE OF FEMALE ANATOMY BE BANNED IN ADVERTISEMENTS? What do you feel about it? Should female exposure in advertisements be banned? A few of you must be wondering why should it be while prodigious number must be feeling ofcourse it should be, afterol its all about females' image, their safety.
I may sound anomalous in this discussion but I feel the term exposure is not much relevant over here, the term which must be heeded on is excessive. Ok what if I ask u what do you mean by excessive exposure. M sure everyone must definitely not be sharing unanimous views. Yeah! actually.. definition for excessive exposure changes with geography, with time and with age as well. Let me exemplify- envisage a woman standing beside you in saree what do you think of her? Is she exposing herself? Well I feel most of yours answer must be "obviously no". But what if the same women amids Saudi Arabian people? She will be opposed for the way she is being dressed up in. Women there are not allowed to unveil any part of her's except her eyes and hand portion below wrist.
In fact within the same country say India two places may have different arena. A girl dressed up in shorts in village or in a city mall is seen via different eyes and different minds. Therefore the definition for excessive changes with geography.
Not just with geography the definition changes with time too. Usually our elder ones i.e our parents or grandparents have contradicting views than we have. So I would say it's people vision toward anything.
I would say exposure in artful manner may be good like in those of british paintings. We are compelled to look through the depth and beauty of what is being painted rather than the naked female body. Its how the exposure may be beautiful too.
If you are still thinking that exposure is bad then let me ask you a question! What about that hogwash "THE AXE EFFECT" advertisement in which all the girls run after the guy who apply the axe deo to his body. Doesnt it shows objectification of women? Doesnt it demean women? Doesnt the add treat women as sexual desire? Yeah it does! The nutshell is an add mayb bad even if it doesnt reveal any of the body part of women, its just how it is presented. I think society needs to supersede anti-exposure thinking with anti-vulgarity.
Many of us are comfortable watching the pictures in magazines or newpapers, or reading those details on internet or in a novel or any article but thinks adds would undermine our culture, is this acceptable?
Narrow minded people think that it may impart a bad impact on their children, but remember RESISTING ONLY CREATES INSATIABLE CUROSITY. So kids must not be resisted from watching such adds but must be given ounch of sexual education.
If u actually think exposure is bad then it must be completely eliminated whether it b on newspaper or a magazine or anywhere. But practically speaking it is very near to impossible as maybe the one working for these adds have these as the only earning way. Not just it is a money deal it is also important in spreading awareness, the adds are also knowledgeable like that of breast cancer which is one of the most common form of cancer amongst women. Also India is a liberal country anyone is free to do whatever s/he wants. No one can enforce any kind of restrictions on anybody.
But yes no matter what the issue is, everyone never agree with the same conclusion. So one thing can be done, the timings for such advertisrments can be changed so that it leads to a magnanimous solution for everyone. :)
By:SaKsHi JAiN
