Now that I have established a brief history of my previous blog posts on the history of the over sexualization of African American Women, I will focus on something else. The media plays a major role in the over sexualization of African American women. Whether it advertisements promoting that African American women are sexually available or celebrates doing it themselves, the media is a advocate for over sexualizing African American women. In this post I am specifically focusing on how print advertisements add to the social issue of the over sexualization of African American women. Advertisements that feature African American women display them as over sexualized and always sexually available. These advertisements do not help the social issue, it only adds to the problem. When these advertisements are printed they promote the idea that African American women are sexually available at anytime for anyone. These advertisements group African American women together and give them a stereotype. In many of these print advertisements, like the three I have included down below, display an African American woman in a jungle-like situation. I did not have to do a specific search, all I did was Google African American women’s advertisements and these came up. When African American women are featured in these fashions ads we often see this. We see women being portrayed as animals, who are open to anything sexually, because as the ads display their animal like. The first advertisement, the model is running side by side with a cheetah, in what looks like a remote location, barely wearing at all, but what she is wearing is animal print. Also a caption says “Wild Things”. The second advertisement features a African American women naked in a cage, hissing into the camera, as if she cannot be tamed. The third advertisement features an African American, once again naked, who is covered in body paint and made to resemble a jungle cat. All three of these advertisements are adding to the social issue of over sexualizing African American women. They are promoting the idea that African American women are wild sexually, and that they cannot be controlled. They are exotic beings that are very much differentiated from our selves. We look at theses ads as if they are another species, we do not see ourselves in them. They are exploiting and over sexualizing African American women.