Ageism in Playboy

Definitions:

1) Content analysis is the process of picking apart and closely observing a subject matter.

2) Ageism is the discrimination of people based on their age.



Hypothesis: That I will find no women over the age 30 pictured in an issue of Playboy Magazine.

In this paper I plan to prove that the hypothesis stated above is true because in society youth is considered a both beautiful and desirable quality to posses. Because Playboy Magazine is a popular magazine aimed at male readers, and because this magazine uses both youth and beauty to sell itself, it could be concluded that men desire female images that manifest beauty in youth. I chose to look at Playboy because Playboy's interest is to sell magazines that satisfy the desires of males. Why does Playboy satisfy the desires of males? It is because in their magazines women between the ages of 18 and 29 are featured nude displaying the youth that their bodies posses. I chose to test this......

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Title: Ageism In Playboy
Approximate Word Count: 1113
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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