Overview
A sexualized environment is one where sexual activity or sexy clothing or behaviour are prominent. This often occurs in geek environments and, by prominently displaying women as sexy, available for sex, or "other" than the predominantly male geek attendees, may make women uncomfortable.
Examples of sexualized environments
- Many Technical conferences are inappropriately sexualized through the presence of booth babes, sexualized presentations, etc.
- Gaming is a highly sexualized environment
- Many companies have shirts with company slogans that double as innuendo, such as "(media company) I like to watch" and "(IT software company) do IT with me."
- Geek technical and task-oriented communities often have overlapping work and play spaces (eg a project IRC channel will often contain both technical talk and social chat). The social element often includes members occasionally or regularly discussing their sexual interests, their desire or lack thereof to have sex with each other etc in the same space as where the on-task discussions take place.
- Mouse pads with wrist rests in the form of women's (round, perky) breasts.
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