Why do you associate the sexual appeal of a woman with being "less than human" bro? That's a pretty big stretch for me to grasp I have to say. If you want to sell clothes of pufume, or whatever item you want to take that relates to a woman being a desirable being, you wouldn't have her sitting at a desk taking her SATs now would you?! In cases of marketting that type of item, noone cares about anything other than appearance. I'm not sure I would want to know anyone who takes that as a woman being portryed as less than human. You say ""less than human" and I think of women being looked at as she should be kept barefoot, pregnant, and at the beckoned call of a man who thinks of her as his personal slave. There is nothing wrong with portraying woman as a sexually desirable being. Just my opinion brother.