Statistics
Resources

Reference these key facts as needed to support discussions throughout this lesson.

The sexualization of girls and women occurs on multiple levels, including through interpersonal interactions and dominant popular culture often shared via media. Media with sexualizing content is perhaps the most pervasive source of sexualization in the United States and includes television (TV) programs, music videos, music lyrics, movies, magazines, video games, and the internet, among others.
Latinas (and other women of color) are more commonly portrayed in a sexualized manner in popular media than are white women.(https://www.etr.org/default/assets/File/publications/McDade-Montez-Sexualization-Paper.pdf)
In a 2008 ACLU study of the Los Angeles police department traffic reports, it was found that for every 10,000 residents, about 3,400 more black people are stopped than whites, and 360 more Latinos are stopped than whites. Stopped blacks are 127% more likely to be frisked -- and stopped Latinos are 43% more likely to be frisked -- than stopped whites.
African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles are “over-stopped, over-frisked, over-searched and over-arrested.” (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-23-oe-ayres23-story.html)
Based on the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) data, over half (59%) of all students in grades 9 to 12 indicated that they had not yet had sex (http://recapp.etr.org/recapp/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.StatisticsDetail&PageID=555)