Gendered Social Construction of Obscenity?

The article linked below, entitled "What Makes a Body Obscene" makes some interesting points about gendered ideas about obscenity, what has to be covered up, and whether sex and or gender make a difference obscenity-wise.

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/12/27/what-makes-a-body-obscene 

Below is a picture from the article in case you need encouragement to follow the link.

This article certainly fits under the WGS 201 second and fourth learning objectives/fundamental concepts/enduring understandings, eh?

·         ideas about bodies (male and female, raced, or classed, or ethnicized) are socially constructed 

·         the forms of subordination and power that influence gender are culturally specific and “constructed” through production, circulation, and consumption of representations (ideas and images that pervade the media)