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Sexualisation of Young People Review 62 clubs – along with sex shops, topless bars and other similar businesses – are located alongside mainstream entertainment venues, raising their profile and increasing their visibility. 342 Sexualisation is tied to economic markets in the forms of beauty and sex industries, that both opens and restricts the breadth and variety of identities and ambitions open to young women. Growing numbers of girls are aspiring to careers that demand a ‘sexy’ image. Surveys have found for instance that a high proportion of young women in the UK aspire to work as ‘glamour models’ or lap-dancers. A recent online survey that asked 1,000 15–19 year olds to indicate what their ideal profession would be from a list containing careers including doctor and teacher, found that 63 per cent of 15–19 year olds considered glamour modelling their ideal profession while a quarter of the all girls surveyed cited lap dancer as their top choice. 343 A report released by the Department for Work and Pensions 344 shows that Jobcentres are routinely advertising for vacancies at escort agencies, lap-dancing clubs, massage parlours and TV sex channels: we are seeing the normalisation of these trades as viable career choices. This is based on an economic and cultural context that is giving rise to the increasing uses of a woman’s body for male satisfaction through, for example, the international sex trades and hard and soft core pornography industries. 342 Hubbard et al.(2008); Egan et al.(2006) 343 Deely (2008) 344 www.parliament.uk/deposits/ depositedpapers/2008/DEP2008-3155.doc Several theorists have argued that the ‘aspirational’ connotations now associated with glamour modelling and lap-dancing are reflective of wider changes in our culture; what Rosalind Gill refers to as ‘the pornification of culture’. 345 This describes the phenomenon whereby young people are exposed to images and messages derived from pornography in increasingly diverse and disparate areas of society. This exposure affects all young people, regardless of their background and education. While some might argue that they are making a free choice, commentators have noted that the hyper-sexualisation of culture is beginning to co-opt the language of freedom and choice. 346 When girls are told over and over again not only that their appearance is all that matters, but that exploiting their appearance is a route to success, it is little wonder that many are choosing to take this route. A monolithic view of the ‘ideal’ women combined with the biased portrayal of such jobs in popular and celebrity culture is limiting, rather than increasing, the choices open to young girls. 345 Gill (2009) 346 Walter (2010)
People trafficking It is difficult to obtain a reliable figure for the number of adults and children being trafficked to the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation. This is by its very nature a covert crime. However, Home Office research suggests that in 2003 there were up to 4,000 women who were victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the UK; and in 2009 CEOP (the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) estimated that the potential number of child trafficking victims was 325. The link between pornography and organised crime is a long and established one. 347 Together, pornography, people trafficking and prostitution contribute to a network of exploitation that fuels the global sex trade. 348 According to the UN, global profits from the trafficking of human beings currently stand at around $7 billion, equivalent in monetary terms to the global trade in drugs. As with all economic systems, there must first be demand before there can be supply. In this scenario, it is argued, the demand is being fuelled by the widespread depiction of girls and women as sex objects. 349 347348349 347 Attorney-General’s Commission on Pornography Final Report (1986) 348 Sarikakis and Shaukat (2007) 349 Sarikakis and Shaukat (2007) Sexualisation of Young People Review 63
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