The Hypersexualization of Society

By hypersexualization, we refer to the act of putting all or a good part of the attention on someone’s, especially women’s, sexual attributes and values. This way, you set the person’s other qualities to the background, as if they weren’t that important. Although hypersexualization as a phenomenon isn’t new, the debate that exists around it, as well as the use of this term, is more recent. To understand this phenomenon, we need to go back to the 1960s and the 1980s. In the 1960s, the “sexual revolution” movement originated in the West. It stemmed from the desire and need to…