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In Two ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence, author Jean Kilbourne discusses and analyzes how media affects the greater society. Sex in advertising is common. Pornography in advertisements imbues a sense of disconnection as it dehumanizes its subject. Women are most commonly used as the object of desire in advertisements. Kilbourne's notes that the messages portrayed in advertisements are deeply integrated into our society as social norms. For women specifically, this public dehumanization encourages gender stratification and social stigmas.