Certainly those types of photos have a lot of people saying those ads only helps to objectify women. I’m not going to say the women are slutty, but we can’t ignore that the target audience is men who will think those girls are arousing. I think as women, let me say girls, we can have no intention of intending to arouse men and we don’t realize they are thinking of what we look like naked and having sex. I say girls, because it starts when we are teenagers. We want to dress like a pop star and we don’t realize who that is attracting and what they are thinking. We are virgins, we aren’t intending to have sex with anyone. We don’t know as 14 year old girls that wearing a heel, short skirt, and long thick hair down our back is possibly causing attention we don’t want. We just want to look good, what we think looks good.
It isn’t that difficult while we are still young to be willing to do photos like that. All sorts of reasons besides wanting to be famous, being flattered they chose you, not worrying what men do with the magazines. If you are comfortable with being half naked on a beach, what’s the real difference in being photographed that way?