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    A woman's body is a great source of art. It has been part of Earth since Adam and Eve. Currently, many women do not value their bodies because many are pressured to be or look like something they are not in today's society. Over the past two decades, the female body has been a real problem since it was created from a man's rib. Currently, women's body image has been transformed in a negative way, as many women do not value and respect the body and its nature in today's postmodern world. In today's society, many people known as video vixens or models have no value or respect for their young female bodies. Being a video model put a label on African American women as having no respect for their bodies, hypersexual vixens and insecure. In today's society, many women do not have respect for their body as a person. lady. Instead, they want to shake their butts in music videos known as video vixens, video models, eye candy and even video whores in the entertainment industry. As a video vixen today you are automatically set as a label in the industry because participating in a music video is not easy and if so it just means you 've done for free. For example, in Puff Daddy, Snoop Dog and other rap videos, all you see are women disrespecting their bodies just to get noticed in the media for a few dollars. Today, many people would consider this lady from the UN as a trashy woman and a trashy woman. Most of the women featured in these hip hop videos come from the African American community and “black femininity on display in hip hop videos (Bartlet3).” This means that they characterize how black women are treated, what they should look like...... middle of paper ......tate University, 2010. Kennesaw: Master of Public Administration, 2010. Theses and Capstone projects. Internet. March 26, 2014. Saltzberg, Elayne A. and Joan C. Chrisler. “Beauty is the beast: psychological effects of the search for the perfect female body.” Beauty Is Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body (1995): 1-10. Mayfield Publishing Company. Internet. April 4, 2014Stanford, Karin L. and Ranald J. Stephens. “International Journal of African Studies.” International Journal of African Studies 16.1 (2010): 117-40. Internet. March 24, 2014. Stevenson, Stephanie Y. “Scholarship and Empowerment in the Age of Video Vixen:” Thesis. University of Maryland, College Park, sd Drum.lib.umd.edu/ Scholarship and Empowerment in the Age of Video Vixen: Promoting the Academic Achievement of Black Adolescent Girls. Department of American Studies. Internet. March 26. 2014.