She Works "Hard" for the Money..

The magazine cover that I chose to analyze was from Vibe. The cover clearly shows woman as being sex objects, made for men’s entertainment, and unable to really be noticed unless they are naked or close enough. On almost every cover that the magazine puts out, there is always a woman standing in a provocative position, cast in a seductive lighting.
While the magazine itself is directed towards a more "hip-hop crowd,’’ it also applies a lot to African Americans. As such, many hip-hops, R&B, and other entertainers grace the covers. For example, Ashanti, Janet Jackson, and other sexy woman show off.

Like the pictures above, it just goes to show how woman are now;

"..Bitches and hoes, in the hip hop culture… (A Letter to hip-hop)"
All the woman above are in hip hop and very successful, yet why are they portrayed in such a degrading way? The only way to answer this question would have to be as simple as saying,

"Sex sells"

While they have money the only reason they do is because they are good looking and draw a large crowd. Still why do they pose so sexy if they have money and people already think they are sexy? They do it because it sells themselves more, as well as the magazine. If the woman above were clothed in business suits or maybe baggy clothes that men were in the hip hop culture people wouldn’t be opted to buy the magazine. There for, we can assume that the majority of people that buy this magazine are men.

Men are always looking for beautiful woman; its human nature to idolize beauty. The book clearly talks about the cultures of the world and how beauty and sex are a huge part of every different one. As for Americans, we love to combine the two but, add a lot more sex. The easiest way to describe this would be to go back, and look at the positions that the woman are in on the magazine covers.

All of the women on the covers are in very provocative and very suggesting positions. The first one takes on more of a fetish side; almost dominatrix like. The woman is posing in a tight leather suite and has her Dari air clearly being pushed forward. The third is Janet Jackson holding her bare breast, wearing only a ley and a small pair of bikini bottoms. This cover screams sex, and that that’s the only reason why she’s posing. The second I saved for last because I felt that it was the most suggestive and degrading. The woman is clearly "under-dressed," and in a typical position associated with sex. Its seems that no matter how rich they are they still choose sex as their weapon, along with the photographers and the CEO’s of the Vibe Magazine company.