>A 2012 paper on compressed sensing by Deanna Needell and Rachel Ward used a photo of the model Fabio Lanzoni as a test image to draw attention to this issue
Well, now that they have done it, straight males can "try on" what the oppression of Lena must feel like for women:
So everyone, please respond:
Now that there's an "attractive" man in use for image testing, do you feel repulsed or discouraged that they would sexualize/objectify a man like that?
Do you feel pushed away from this industry?
Personally, this exercise is helping me see the light of the "are we treating women as delicate flowers who can't handle it" viewpoint. That image of Fabio is not threatening to me. Anyone who tries to tell me it is threaten, I think is being overly sensitive.
I'm utterly comfortable with people expressing this level of sexuality in the academic/public area. It's more akin to a "schoolkid crush" than to strip tease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Controversy