Sexuality sells, and this is the mindset of many. From the famous Playboy magazines, to television shows and advertisements, to billboards and commercials on the radio; sex is everywhere. Sexuality has sold so much that the human race has purchased a lifetime supply. The world is over sexualized, and it is causing more harm than good.

My nearly 85-year-old grandmother sat down with me, and even though she has forgotten many things, she has not forgotten the impact of sexualization on the female community. In the era of her young adulthood, the feminine community was to be modest, respectful, honest, and obeying of their spouses and all other men in their life; one thing still has not changed and this is the view upon a woman's sexuality. My grandma told me a story from her childhood. She had ridden the trolley in Saint Paul to school every day, and one day her the clips holding her stockings up broke. She tried to hold on to her stockings while she finishing her journey to school. It made me curious, why would she need to hold her socks up? I mean they were just socks after all, but they were more than that. They were a symbol of her modesty in a time where showing her bare legs beneath a skirt were proven to be highly provocative. It is time to face the truth, and accept the fact that 'everything is done for sexuality' is no longer a part of the feminine identity. Women such as Michelle Obama, Helen Keller, and many others have not left their legacy just to be pushed aside in a game of hot or not. Brains over brawn and beauty should be the rightful thought.

Sexuality is a great thing, but the world should not be revolving around it like it has been for generations. Men have been sexualized as well, but there's just something about the female body that the world is obsessed with. We can blame the media, like I have many times before. Now, we must fix the belief that lies within our own minds.

This argument has been delivered in many ways through many words, yet no change seems to have been made. Large cosmetic, clothing, and personal hygiene companies have launched campaigns trying to show that every body type is beautiful; these companies are missing the point, that sexuality is what cause a sliver of this problem. A woman's body is beautiful, all bodies are in all honesty, but they are not meant to sexually please every waking soul; yet that seems to be the mindset of the world. I want my future children to grow up in a world where they don't have the thought that sexuality propels them to success, I do not want them to posses the mind set that I and many others still have. This isn't the mindset to grow.