So it is almost Halloween! and I was looking for a costume to wear and I was shocked by a lot of the costumes. I'd say 90%+ of the costumes for women were tight, spandex, low cut and booty short. Now a lot of girls are okay with this and see Halloween as an okay day to dress slutty and it not be looked down upon, but what image is this giving? Why are the costumes so revealing? I also saw that a lot of the costumes seem to come out of what would be a male fantasy and not out of personal desire. The Halloween costumes are for showing off and portrays women even more as objects of fantasy that are sexy and 'plastic.' So how has this changed from the modest festive costumes to the scantly clad ones today? The porn industry has continued to rise, and a lot of the plots of the video's are role playing and fantasy. Is this a connection? I found this website http://www.forplaycatalog.com/ that advertises adult sexy costumes as well as Lingerie, Club wear, Exotic Wear, and Accessories that include handcuffs and whips. So the fact that their mixing these different forms of apparel all on one site, I think that is saying something. Are the adult Halloween costumes just another degrading way of viewing women as play things or is their something more? I can't really tell that their is. Yes, its good that women have this healthy body image of themselves and they are confident but is it really healthy? Because I feel like that attitude is yeah I'm confident if I'm dressing sexy and guys are looking at me. The photos below I feel don't say anything else other than that.
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