You knew this: Cosmo magazine articles can empower or ...

Young women have it tough. When they are adults, they want to be paid the same and respected as much as men, but they first have to endure patronizing portrayals by psychologists during their younger years.

Oddly, 70% of psychologists are women so the desire to tell young women how easily manipulated they are, and how psychology can fix the problem it creates, is odd.

The effects of sexualized media on young women has long been debated but yet another survey claims that women who read sex-related magazine articles from popular women's magazines like Cosmopolitan are less likely to view premarital sex as a risky behavior. Additionally, the women who are exposed to these articles are more supportive of sexual behavior that both empowers women and prioritizes their own sexual pleasure.

Authors Janna L. Kim and L. Monique Ward said, "When exposed to explicit textual messages about female sexual assertiveness in women's magazines, readers regarded women's capacity to experience and act on feelings of sexual desire more favorably."

To execute the study, 150 women college students were randomly assigned to read articles from two popular magazines: one set of articles about women's roles in sexual relationships and the other set about general entertainment unrelated to sexual relationships. Then they answered questions. In addition to survey results showing that the group of women exposed to the sex-related articles endorsed more risky sexual behavior, the researchers found that white women in particular viewed premarital sex as less risky and endorsed taking on a more assertive sexual role than women of color.

Kim and Ward concluded, "Our results suggest that the complex and sometimes conflicting representations of female sexuality proliferating in the mass media and popular culture could potentially have both empowering and problematic effects on women's developing sexual identities."

Published in Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Source: http://www.sciencecodex.com/magazine_articles_jeopardize_and_empower_young_women_s_sexuality-97761

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