Apparently mental health professionals are concerned about the sexualization of young women in our culture, following up the likes of young women such as Paris Hilton and other young, wild teen stars and stars in their early twenties who are setting bad examples for young women and how they behave and present themselves.  Sure, it’s healthy for a woman to want to be an attractive woman and attract men, but it’s gone overboard these days into mass vanity and body image problems. 

It seems that young women who are in the media spotlight present themselves without the same class that women used to, and it’s rubbing off on our youth, especially with the likes of MySpace and other social online meeting places, where girls seem to feel pressure to post sexy pictures of themselves to get attention.

The outward problems that society has shown in young women and the examples that are being set that young girls are sex objects from a younger age, and that sexuality and “being sexy” means everything in the world these days is resulting in lower self esteem and body issues in much of the young women these days and is also resulting in less women doing “smart” things and acting smart, which seems to be another very annoying affect of the Paris Hilton phenomena.  Well, at least she stopped saying that stupid “that’s hot”, but she still has a long way to go in setting examples of what a real women should be.  Like smart and funny, and having more depth than a puddle for starters.

Others issues besides low self esteem that mental health professionals are saying this phenomena of hyper sexualization of young women is increased depression, and eating disorders to try to be like women who are in the spotlight, most of whom unfortunately seem to be taking after Skeletor at the moment. 

Even Angelina Jolie, who was once a beautiful, shapely woman is now promoting this deathly skinny image and sadly many young women are trying to emulate these looks and are torturing themselves to try to be that skinny, which if you ask me doesn’t look good and isn’t attractive at all in a woman.  I think for men, they just want a real woman, one who is smart and funny and keeps it light instead of taking herself too seriously all the time.  Some men do like their women dumb, but that’s all up to them!