In Hatton and Trautner’s article, ‘Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone’ (2011) examines and analyzes the changes on how the male and the female are sexually represented. This review will critically look at the arguments of the authors and the research discipline. Also, it will examine the previous literature related to the research topic. Further, the paper will examine the methodology used by the authors to analyses the study. Finally, it will discuss its findings and the contribution of the research to the study field. The study by Hatton and Trautner is an interdisciplinary study about sexuality and gender as well as the media. The above disciplines deals with the representation of sexuality and gender in the media. Also, it looks at how other issues regarding gender and sexuality affect individuals’ and the society. By examination of Braithwaite et al. (2015), it is evident that pornography influences friends and the society. Also, Hall, West and Hill (2012) shows implication of song lyrics on sexuality educators. The authors of the article have several …show more content…
To support this, their results shows that sexualized female images of are many and women are more deeply sexualized compared to men. Lastly, Hatton and Trautner (2011, p. 274) argue that the increasing representation of the hyper-sexualized women and the decreasing non-sexualized images of women suggest that there are more homogenous representation of women by the media. To develop the background of their research, the authors examine various studies related to their field of research. To start with, they examine the study by Goffman (1979) who established a coding system to analyze gender symbols of ads that had five groups such as licensed withdrawal and relative size among