Young EPP wants to take action against sexist advertising

The Young Evangelical People's Party has launched a petition against sexist advertising. The aim is to ban sexist advertising from public spaces. By sexist advertising, the initiators mean gender-discriminatory depictions that mostly show women as mere sex objects. This violates the dignity of women and encourages young people to become anorexic, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. For the initiators, sexist also has the meaning of oversexualized. Advertising floods the public with unsolicited images of intimate areas. The initiators are not concerned with a ban on sexist images, whoever wants to consume them. They should have the right to do so, according to the press release. However, the right not to have to consume the images is just as important. The petition is to be submitted to the Federal Council and Parliament in the 2006 winter session.